Article · Salagir's Blog
Make Comics Balloons with Photoshop
By Salagir
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2009
About this lesson
Webcomic creator Salagir demonstrates building speech balloons in Photoshop using vector shape layers, showing how to style the outline, add a tail and reuse balloon shapes efficiently across a page.
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