I use Paint Sho Pro or Comic book Creater to make my word balloons. I tend to use PSP more than CBC because when you make the balloons with CBC and save them to .PDF or .JPEG format, they tend to cut the last line of the text out. easier to make the balloons part of the picture and then put the picture in CBC.
See how CBC cuts out the last line of text;
http://www.joedios.com/dioramas/sho...r&imageuser=216
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