Article · The Comic Work of James Burns
How to Make Comics, Part 6: Digital Lettering and Balloons
By James Burns
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2008
About this lesson
Comics artist James Burns explains an alternative to Illustrator-based lettering: building word balloons and tails directly in Photoshop with vector shape layers and layer effects, then placing type inside them.
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