Tutorial: Making Word Balloons with Adobe Photoshop

Recomend you watch the high def version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvTEqWpfoPg&fmt=18 to catch all the details.
A short tutorial on making cartoon word balloons using Adobe Photoshop. Hosted by Barry T. Smith from www.inktank.com.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• webcomic
• comic
• cartoon
• word
• balloons
• inktank
• adobe
• photoshop

[judy4176]

I have searched and can't find the colorbook font. Any Ideas where I can find it?

[TheInkTank]

@judy4176 Hi Judy. It's comic book font. And I bought it ... somewhere? A long time ago. I can't quite remember. But there are sites like blambot.com that have well priced (and even free) comic book related fonts.

[jagawire420]

This video is amazingly clear for 360p and there is no need for a high def version of this and it was very helpful. Thanks. Too bad this is from 3 years ago because I would love to know how this video was rendered before upload and I doubt you would even remember.

[TheInkTank]

@jagawire420 I think I did this before HD was a standard. But part of the trick is I set my machine to the highest resolution I could get my monitor, and then moved everything in Photoshop into the upper left hand 1/4th of my screen. I was shooting for as clean and readable video as I could get, as most tutorials I saw, it was too hard to see the teeny, tiny tools the user was pointing to. I'm glad you found it helpful.

[FiscalExpansion]

Thanks for the tutorial! I do have this tool but it's only square, not a circle ... what to do?

I'm new with photoshop and I am using Photoshop CS3 ...

[TheInkTank]

@FiscalExpansion I think for all versions of Photoshop you can click and hold your mouse over the square and a small menu should pop up with additional shapes and tools (a circle being one of them). Hope this helps.

[Zangetsu116]

I really want to get that comic book font, but when I went to the cite and got it I didn't know what to do with it, if you can could you explain what im supposed to do with it, or if Im supposed to download the other files. (I use a windows xp) Thank you!!! :)

[techmec94]

Thanks, huge help

[Barnacle392]

Thank you Barry. Easy to follow in Photoshop Elements 8.

[NanXinan]

nice tutorial! but to make the outline for the bubbles you could use the wand tool and then use Ctrl+Shift+I to invert the selection and then stroke with the outline on the outside

[bellisano]

Thanks!

[ThePunchlineIsAlsi]

Oh, thank goodness. I've been trying to figure this out for months. I use Elements but, principally, it's the same thing. Thank you :)