How To Create Speech Bubbles In Photoshop

[@johnwhitelam]

WOW! Clayton, That's an AWESOME drawing of the punk girl! You are super talented. Great tutorial. Thank you.

[@UnaCrusader]

5 years after posting and your saving my art assignment!

[@andrewhu3369]

This could have been made into a 3 minute video

[@zippermalfunction]

gave me headache ... 18 minutes for God sake.

[@timemaster31]

Don't you love the glorious cancerous state of youtube tutorials?

[@michaelmatecha573]

@GH5 - Master Of All You're just my hero oh master. This tutorial can be helpful for those less elite than you.

[@cathleenclayton9433]

exactly... I was already mad before the video, now... just please, no one approach me...

[@3Diva]

@@timemaster31 More like the cancerous state of many youtube commenters. These tutorials are made by people who spend their own time and energy to create them to help other people, and then along come ingrates who only know how to complain about it.

[@AtomicBl453]

solid intros are seriously underused these years.

[@H3Y0o]

6:43 is what you are here for. If you want it fast, mute and play at 2x speed, you can still get it.

[@Theguywhoasked-km8be]

Thanks a lot dude I would have been fucked up if I hadn't found this awesome tutorial :D

[@tabel528]

Brilliant video - thanks so much! Really appreciate the lack of fluff and nonsense, skips straight to the information.

[@paulsheldon8838]

6:25 - Working on actual baloon starts.

[@howtodrawcomicsnet]

Correctamundo!

[@Yonatan_Max]

Thanks for the helpful video! A little long in steps, but it works

[@paulofreitas8193]

Thank you so much for this Comic Art Tutorial. Great stuff!

[@JackLloyd]

Thank you for your service.

[@daneesia]

Thank you sooooo so much for going into detail about all of this 🙏🥹 I only came to learn how to make the speech bubble shape itself, but I stuck around for some of the tips at the start and I'm glad I did. Definitely a valuable video and still relevant today once you're familiar with how the tools work in different versions of the program (and in similar programs I suppose!)

[@bradleypotts9865]

Thanks for the tutorial. I've been lettering my comic in Photoshop for years, but I've used a very different method. It gave me good results, but I think what you're doing here will make for more natural looking word balloons, and I was never able to do the nice curve on the tail. I'm looking forward to experimenting with your technique, although I'll need to good back and reletter my last eight pages so I have a consistent style throughout the comic.

[@avourrito1819]

For someone that needs extra confirmation and no skips or fast clicks, this video is very nice for my pace tho I felt bad for the ones who wanted to get to the point quicker. They're invalid cuz this video is good lol

[@Theguywhoasked-km8be]

same! I loved this video and it's extremely helpful for me (who is a beginner)

[@dinyo.cartoonsandcomics]

thankyou for the tutorial! all the best!

[@natephoenix]

Photoshop CC doesn't seem to have a transform tool. I've used the elipse tool, I've clicked Ctrl+T, I'm holding Ctrl and clicking on the edge of the elipse...Nothing. The worst part is that I actually DID do this successfully previously, a year ago. No idea why it's not working now.

[@mordissa]

Step1 1:15 Step 2 5:42 Step 3 6:21 Step 4 11:44

[@Maria-vg6bx]

Thank you so much!!!! It was really helpful

[@amayacomics]

THANKS! You've saved tons of minutes with this.

[@howtodrawcomicsnet]

That's awesome to hear man. You're welcome! -Clayton

[@fluffykuroneko111]

thank you!

[@alollylife1841]

Wonderful tutorial. Thanks for taking the time to explain it in depth and pointing out the important details several times (like making sure the correct tool or layer was active). It was exactly what I needed. You are spectacular.

[@giovannihaynes5032]

Nice!

[@TheManu71186]

Nice data!! Thanks!!

[@pazgames8016]

AWESOME LESSON! THANKYOUVERYMUCHINDEED! SUBSCRIBED.

[@shizyninjarocks]

This was mega helpful. We're getting close to finishing our first issue. So, I brought a sample to Comic Con and showed it to major artist and got my ass chewed out for crappy balloons and lettering.

[@pauljohns3081]

very good - just what I was looking for

[@DiegoRodriguez-pr5rf]

Tip for those that can't get the handles to work, USE THE TRANSFORM/WARP tool!

[@jgeezjoj]

Thanks a million brother. Great video!

[@AnaCortez]

Awesome. THANK YOU! Thanks for going step by step

[@JeremiahDerby]

Great tutorial! I've been wanting to learn about word balloons. Thanks Clayton! :D

[@howtodrawcomicsnet]

Awesome man - you're very welcome! Hope this video helped you out. -Clayton

[@01RatToken]

Thanks for this- very helpful with my comic!

[@howtodrawcomicsnet]

No worries Sam, you're welcome!

[@Petertunes]

Great tutorial man!

[@howtodrawcomicsnet]

Thanks so much! Glad you found it helpful. -Clayton

[@saganandroid4175]

I use PS CC2018. I have NO "transform" tool as shown at 10:01. I went into the 3-dot "Edit Toolbar" menu and no Transform tool to be found! Where is it?

[@nellekx]

You should follow the advice of your character and "stop stalling and get to the point real quick"

[@TM2DB]

This was incredibly helpful, and legitimately the best news I've had all week.

[@hafeezk1]

This is great, thank you!

[@theyogabios]

Great stuff man.

[@noviaputri7536]

Thankyou! So helpful❤️

[@howtodrawcomicsnet]

You're welcome. Thanks for watching! -Clayton

[@thegurch7313]

EXCELLENT!! very nice in-depth video tutorial, you got a great voice too., thank you for this, However, it does eems so much work when you consider how many speech bubbles a comic would need, but i guess the more times you do this the quicker it will be. Surely it must be easier to make it into a brush shape of the most commonly used sizing. Also, I was taught that the tail of the bubble only needs to extend halfway in the gap between the bubble and the person and who is speaking, and if possible always have it point at the mouth otherwise like here it seems to be the strand of hair that is doing the talking. Great video again , much thanks.

[@sinjeeli]

Great tutorial, thank you

[@KietJojo]

thanks

[@Healoz]

super helpful thanks dude!

[@BlueUniverseChannel]

Thank you for making this man!!!!!

[@howtodrawcomicsnet]

All good man. Glad you found it helpful.

[@Matadorstudio]

Whoa you been busy. I stepped away for a while cause you stopped making videos but now you are rolling!

[@OmiTheEel]

Any idea on how to make the balloon a bit wonky? Like with slightly irregular edges, giving it a hand drawn feel. There was a great video on it but apparently it got deleted :'(

[@JaythePandaren]

This is Awesome. I'm starting around doing comics

[@jamaalgamble3441]

How do you connect different bubbles together?

[@milkglitter]

Does anyone know why when I paste text with formatting into photoshop it always defaults to the photoshop font and formatting?

[@cariappabachettira2034]

How do u get the transform tool

[@afypingpong2759]

Mine makes a new layer when I add the shape directing the word balloon (the tail). Can you advice ? Thank you

[@dakotagadel2810]

I use the ellipse tool like you said but it’s just a white blob over text. Is there something in settings I need to change? Any help will be appreciated. 🙂

[@thiccada]

I just find it easier to draw the balloon by hand, I just put in the text first and draw the balloon around it. Also, have you tried out the wild words font? Its the one thats used for alot of manga scans and I find that it works pretty fine for what I want to do. Plus its free :)

[@howtodrawcomicsnet]

That's another way to do it too. You've got to go with what works best for you ultimately - because there's an infinite number of ways to go about doing this stuff. But, for those who don't know where to begin, this might be a good place to start. I'll have to look up that font you mentioned too! Sounds awesome, especially if it's a free one. -Clayton

[@AkibaDanceProject]

Thank You!!!

[@ED-es2qv]

Thanks for the video. It's interesting to me that photoshop and the online community don't seem to think anybody puts talk bubbles on anything, yet I see them everywhere. There's actually a talk bubble shape available, but nobody knows how to use them, including the help people. It was actually taken off the standard shapes and now is found under legacy shapes. You have a brute force method for creating something that should be a simple click and resize. Not your fault, just the bizarre fact that people who make comics must not be using photoshop.

[@violamounts3872]

Apart from the keyboard shortcuts, could this be applicable via tablet as well?

[@NativeSonDC]

"Could not transform the selected pixels because the selected area is empty" is the error message I get I try to follow this tutorial, when trying to select the ellipse. Even after 2 Photoshop classes costing like a thousand dollars, I still have no idea why this happens, and it HAPPENS ALL THE TIME. I basically am afraid to use Photoshop at this point because, like almost always, I get 80 percent done with a project and that same error message happens, and I have to start over because I have no idea what is happening.

[@Jinaugust2]

Thankyou !!!!

[@ThomasRomeArt]

Or you can do it by hand like me (and use the "it's my style" excuse). But thanks for the tutorial !

[@howtodrawcomicsnet]

No worries Thomas. Thanks for watching! Haha... I wish I could pull this off by hand, this makes it a little easier for me ;) -Clayton

[@phantump5905]

what’s the font you’re using for the text?

[@DarkCrusade]

did you figure out?

[@phantump5905]

@@DarkCrusade I actually found some when I searched up for them, although you need to download the fonts

[@DarkCrusade]

@@phantump5905 neat, can you give me their names please?

[@MalchiorDhar]

Sadly the part at 10:20 doesn't work for me :( It simply refuses to make those handles

[@howtodrawcomicsnet]

Did you press Ctrl+T? - Make sure you're on the right layer when you do it.

[@unclejohnthezef]

awesome! thanks! I can't find the "Transform Tool" anywhere. how can I get it on my toolbar?

[@howtodrawcomicsnet]

Just hit Ctrl+T on your keyboard.

[@michaelmcdonnell3905]

Show how to create comic panels in Photoshop.

[@AL4RC0NR4MO5]

Thanks, this is what I needed, but it definitely could have been made more concise -- a 5 minute video would have been enough. I had to turn the speed up to x1.5 and kept skipping forward 5 seconds regularly.

[@CianaCorto]

Transform tool ctrl + click doesn't work at all for me. I'm not getting handles.

[@howtodrawcomicsnet]

Try Ctrl+T

[@CianaCorto]

@@howtodrawcomicsnet The problem was that I had multiple layers selected without knowing it. RThe text was also selected. Ctrl + t doesn't give me free transwormign and warping.

[@stpisls]

which version of PS

[@WaqasKhan-zu6lf]

Watch in 1.25x or 1.50x Playback Speed...😴😴😴

[@MUHIL]

thanks a lot man! but why 18 minutes? I get it, you want watch time... anyway, goodjob fam

[@TheRubberStudiosASMR]

great video- a tad long though

[@lbpews9919]

Every time I do this photoshop crashes lately. Fucking fantastic.

[@jaydon.2833]

WHAT IS THE FRIKIN FONT THATS ALL I NEED!

[@miyako2141]

Type in "webtoon font download" There are bunches of fonts like that.

[@austro1675]

DO NOT DO THIS WITH LONG DIALOG. Split into separate bubbles for pauses in speech!

[@stingystownandlazytownreac1063]

I'm a little made I made a comic for my friends homework and I worked hard and I only had a little time to make mine my teacher loved my friends comic THAT I MADE ..... ok 😫✋

[@lune4916]

Awww.. That's sad. Always prioritize yours first.. ☹️

[@i8_lex]

nice drawing tho

[@crudecube]

Because of me having an old version of photoshop, I don't have path operations.. Crap.

[@ChrisCranham]

This Clayton chappy really is the shiz, he seems to be back to line art now but his last 2 were digitally painted, quite the renaissance man. I don't know how he can come up with such stylish, crazy stuff each time, if you properly assess the sitch here, she's wearing a leather/latex leotard, a canvas jacket with a fur hood and rolled up sleeves, futuristic looking sunglasses, glamrock hairstyle and her gloves and leg straps suggest she's from a post apocalyptic future where a virus or killer robots have wiped out 90% of mankind. Her boyfriend would probably have one shoulder pad larger than the other and a hi-tech headset to communicate with his guerilla commandos.

[@howtodrawcomicsnet]

Haha... I love that interpretation Chris. I couldn't have thought of a better backstory for her myself! Post apocalyptic divas are some of my favorite character's to draw. Thanks for the kind words man, hope you enjoyed the video. -Clayton

[@JetTeamProduction]

Great tutorial (even though 2 minutes would have been enough haha) and 25$ for a font? You can have the same for free in 1 click anywhere !

[@Xiriopa]

I know where you are staring.

[@ElcluasicoChuuad]

Hello! They make allways this? I thought they had vectorized bubbles D:

[@ED-es2qv]

They do, now under legacy shapes, but nobody knows how to use them, including me.

[@poochyboi]

next time get to the point quicker...u got good information but its a mess with all that speech.

[@dapencilshinobi]

I'm not to fond of digital art..for some reason I don't think it holds value when talking about comic art..manipulating lines with a tool makes it to simple...manufactured if I may., and to me it feels like I'm looking, or buying that art just because.thats my opinion.

[@howtodrawcomicsnet]

For sure. You should never buy comic art just because, especially if you don't dig the medium. You've got to find your own value in it - for you, that's the level of authenticity you feel resides within a piece of traditionally made comic art. For others it might be value found within the idea that's being shown, or the story that's being told within the illustration. In the end, it all boils down to the medium and tools used by the artist to realize their vision. -Clayton

[@henriettacluck2701]

I peed on the keyboard and it didn't work

[@rawstarwars7136]

7 minutes of monologing before getting to the tutorial...

[@chuk9036]

Why tf is your photoshop looking like that in 2017?!

[@NoobLikesCookies]

Kl video, but way too long.

[@jasonthomas6684]

Way too much talking....geez.

[@cdubbart]

Maybe for you, lol.

[@donnabelasuero7719]

Why talk too much ???!!!

[@bammbamm12]

Have you ever heard a person talk so much?

[@shwetabhsuman1931]

you talk too MUCH!

[@howtodrawcomicsnet]

It has been said. I'm a bit of a talker. -Clayton

[@abcdefg12382]

just get to the point dude...

[@greenc1088]

Please make it brief and and concise next time, jesus christ you talk too much.

[@sekfamnervanholandia301]

to much speaking

[@tediousmaximus1067]

"I don't HAVE time to listen to your drivel." No, I'm not talking about your tutorial. I mean you forgot to put the word HAVE in the dialogue!

[@howtodrawcomicsnet]

Nice catch Steve. Haha, yeah, I saw that after it was too late. And I swear I proof read it a couple times over. -Clayton

[@snager80]

thanks so much for this, sir!

[@tamanegi1040]

Thank you very much