Ok... I tend to do all that in general but anybody's who has read comics long enough would do this naturally. HOWEVER... The guy got me on one point. I tend to extend the tails to the speaker's mouth. I've found that sometimes in people's dios, they aren't long enough and I can't figure out who is speaking.

2 other points he doesn't cover.

1. Text size. He speaks of small text, big balloon in terms of someone being quiet. But some people tend to use a text that is too big for their pics and it takes away from the action of the shot.

2. Text vs balloon. I'll admit, one of my biggest fights is to fill the word balloon up properly. The CBC was horrible in that I couldn't get the dialogue to fit well. There was always a lot of border space and a lot of people questioned me on that. Now, I may have had a crappy version of CBC (ie; mine wouldn't allow to save or change to jpg) that allows the text fill up the balloon better.



Solutions:

1. View the image at 100% and decide what your eye sees best and what you can ASSUME others people can see. Of course, people have different resolutions on their screens so that could be a problem too.

2. I believe it was Rambo or ToneGuns that showed that one could BUILD their own word balloons. It's still a crap shoot of using the circle and line tools to make the balloon work with the text. Sure, you can say, why don't you just do the text and then layer the circle over? Uh, because a regular balloon has white insides and if you layer it over text, you just took out the text. MAYBE you can move the layers around, but I've never actually tried that. Uh... Hmmmmmmm, time to try it!



Good topic, SelfMod