![]() Keeping the faces uncovered is sometimes the best you can do. The figures can't bend every way you want and if you shrink it down too far, the art becomes illegible. That's fine for drawn comics, but photocomics are trickier. This isn't bad, but it isn't ideal - you're supposed to keep the word bubbles off the figures, even if Grimlock's arm isn't important. ) We don't have to chew our word bubbles. I know the words are coming out of our mouths ( or masks, in Big Grim's case. It only takes a couple minutes to rearrange your text into a more pleasing shape. Now here's what happens if you don't fiddle with your text to make it fit a bubble: You end up with a lot of wasted white space covering up the art. The same text in two rows would make a fatter bubble with more dead space than one with three shorter rows. The dialogue could be stretched to two long lines instead of three shorter ones, but with elliptical bubbles odd numbers of rows fit better. At least the dialogue is in the right order, even if the picture isn't. This is about as good as you're going to get with this layout. There's all this dead space over my head and I go slap a word bubble over one of the figures instead. If I was totally married to this layout with Grimlock on the right, it would work if he was the only one who got to speak, with my reply in the next panel. Here, the reader is forced to read the panel unnaturally - first Grimlock's dialogue on the left, then skipping all the way right to look at Grimlock, then reading right to left to read my bubble and look at me. English-speakers don't just read text left to right, they read pictures like that, too. You need a reason better than "I didn't plan my layout and should have had the figures switched" to cross the tails of your word bubbles. Taking five minutes to figure out the layout instead of just barrelling ahead without planning could have saved me a lot of trouble here.īleagh. Or maybe I'm pretending it's manga because I'm a pretentious jerk. Some comic artists don't even make it this obvious, with the bubble to be read first only slightly higher than the one to be read second. If you learned to read in English, you're going to read from left to right, and my word bubble is far enough left that the reader will probably try to read it first, though it's below Grimlock's. Obviously, the reader will read it first. Now here's a few Thou Shalt Nots once you scroll past that step by step image: ![]() Unless you've been shoving bubble tails into people's mouths. Of course, if you've got one of those fancy frou-frou programs that make and size bubbles for you, you don't need this. Step Five is just going back to the text layer ( in Photoshop 5.0 at least, every chunk of text has its own layer. ) Sometimes, such as with the Fallen, the border is two pixels instead of one. Fill the selection with black, then Modify: Contract the selection by one pixel and fill it with white ( Wayward used to use the Modify: Border function before. Steps Three and Four were pretty much cribbed from Shin-Goji at Twisted Kaiju Theatre. Pointed in the right direction is usually enough. It doesn't even have to be touching the character. It does not need to be crammed into the character's mouth. Then, holding down the Shift key and using the Polygonal Lasso, make the tail. If you decide you don't like the bubble's placement, now's the time to move it. ![]() Step Two - Use Transform Selection to resize the bubble to fit around your text properly. Use the Elliptial Marquee tool to make an approximate bubble around the text. Now that you've got your text arranged to best fit the space and set where you want it to be, proceed to Step One - which is add a layer underneath your text where your word bubbles are going to go. *Or some other culture where the writing is right to left. I'm not going to force myself to read backwards just so you can be pretentious. You're not being manga, you're being annoying. And unless you are writing in Japanese for a Japanese audience in Japan,* don't arrange your page to be read right to left. What they don't get is that the text can be arranged to better use the space, or that they don't have to shove the tail of the bubble in the character's mouth, or that if Character A is going to speak first, try to arrange things so he's on the left. Now, most of 'em have realised that you have to put the text down first, then slip the bubble in underneath or draw it around the text. Most people can't do word bubbles to save their lives. The word bubble, bane of comic artists everywhere. In Space, No One Can Hear Starscream - Word Bubble Tutorial ![]()
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