Making and editing speech balloons
Since Clip Studio Paint is made primarily for creating comics, there are tools included to create speech balloons easily in the program. With just a few clicks, we can make speech balloons and tails that can be edited like vector objects.
Follow these steps to create a speech balloon and a tail:
- Add some text to your canvas using the directions that we gave in the first section of this chapter.
- The Balloon tools are in the same category of tools as the Text tool. They are shown in Figure 7.12.
Figure 7.12: Balloon sub tool
- Select the desired Balloon tool. For this set of instructions, we will use the Ellipse balloon tool.
- With the text layer selected, click on the Ellipse balloon tool, and drag it to make a balloon surrounding the text. Don’t worry about making it perfect—we will adjust the position in the next step.
- With the Operation | Object tool, click on the previously created...
