hiya gizmo 

u must do it this way thru documents not in the program itself. each program version only recognizes its own file extension
  
 go to START > DOCUMENTS > UR PSP TUBES FOLDER U USE TO STORE UR TUBES
  
 RIGHT CLICK TUBE - UWILL NOT SEE PICTURE BUT A FILE ICON - UNTIL U CHANGE THE EXTENSION
  
 THEN CHANGE THE FILE EXTENSION THERE FROM PSPTUBE TO PSPIMAGE
 I CAN SEE THE IMAGE AFTER I DO THIS - HOPE U DO TOO
  
 IT WILL THEN OPEN UP IN PSP8 AND ALSO BE RECOGNIZED IN AS 
  
 GET BACK TO ME IF U HAVE ANY QUESTIONS
  
 
BELLA