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Originally Posted by Sonneilon
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!
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Layers are the way to go. I type out my dialogue first, adjust the text box and add returns to get it in the shape I want, then on a separate layer I draw the balloon with a circle tool or freehand. I prefer freehand, it makes less white space and doesn't look so plain.
It's easier to adapt the balloon to the text than the other way around. The dialogue is more important than the balloons anyway, so it's better to make compromises with the balloons.
I do a lot of comic style lettering and this seems like the simplest and fastest way I can think of.
