Possibly a really strange question but how do you do your speech bubbles? Like, the outline of them
Sure, let’s make this into a mini tutorial. First of all - I use MediBang Paint Pro and it’s free to download online. It’s actually specifically FOR making comics but I do not use it to its full potential. It probably has a tool for comic bubbles. I do not know where it is. I do not anticipate ever finding out.
My interface looks like this:
And for this tutorial, we are gonna be mostly hanging out in this area:
First of all, I need to put down my text.
Use whatever text tool your program offers or write it down free-hand. Doesn’t matter.
Next, we’re going to draw a box. Using the ‘draw a shape’ tool. For me, it’s down here next to the color wheel:
Also, it’s a personal preference but I make my speech bubbles by drawing a box with rounded corners at 80%.
80% what? I don’t know. I just experimented until one looked nice.
Draw a *SOLID* shape on the layer below your text. You can lower the opacity to see the text you’re drawing over to make it centered, or you can just eyeball it.
Good job, you can’t see anything. I mean, that’s a good thing. It looks a little silly, I know.
Now give those speech bubbles some tails!
Okay, here’s the fun part. You have all your speech bubbles on the same layer! We are going to select them. So go back up to your select tab and click ‘select by opacity’ OR select by brightness.
Now your speech bubbles are selected. Now go back up to Select AGAIN and find the ‘contract’ option. This will change your selection by... contracting it a little bit. Giving it a squeeze. Making it smaller.
The next step depends on your canvas size and resolution but go ahead and try to contract by... say.... 10 pixels. Just to see what happens.
Hit OK. Now your speech bubbles should look something like this:
Wow, it’s almost a border! Here’s the next step - we want THAT AREA to be a different color. So now that it’s nice and selected for us, I’m going to use either the bucket tool or another coloring tool to get it filled in REALLY easily and cleanly.
Oh, look, there were WORDS in there? I almost forgot about that.
Anyway, yeah, that’s about how I do it. The layers end up looking like so:
You can use clipping to lock the text onto the speech-bubble layer for easier organization.... or not. Struggle like I do.
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