How Do You Create Quick And Easy Cartoon Dialog Balloons In Photoshop?
When working on my own comics, my freehand style sometimes doesn’t lend itself to the pristine task of lettering character dialogue and creating dialogue balloons. That’s where scanning original artwork into my computer using the image editing software Photoshop comes to my rescue. Since Photoshop is a deep program filled with bells and whistles, there are a lot of tricks that have to be learned. When I first began using Photoshop to edit my comics, I had initial problems with sizing and locating the character dialogue balloons in each comic frame. The trickiest problem was that the balloons that I had created in Photoshop were either too small or too big. When I’d create a too small balloon, it would touch the edges of the dialogue text, making it illegible and thus throwing off the comic’s visual timing. When I’d create a too large dialogue balloon, it would threaten to visually dominate a frame and throw off the comic’s visual balance. I read Photoshop books and searched the Web for
