Hi, I'm new here and while I apologise for the seeming ridiculousness of my question, please be assured that it is a genuine one!

I'm not an experienced photographer, in fact I'm an applications architect, but I was tasked with carrying out some product photography for a client on the strength of my owning a relatively recent digital camer. Accordingly I obtained some daylight temperature lights and a folding light tent and produced some acceptable pictures for the web.

I now can't fold up the tent! It is an 80cmx80cmx80cm folding tent of the sort commonly sold on ebay. It came in a tiny circular bag and when I unzipped it and removed the contents, the whole thing just popped into shape. I've been wrestling with it for some time now and have been unable to get it into anything resembling the shape it needs to be return it to it's bag.

If someone could patiently explain the procedure I would be extremely grateful.

TIA

apparch