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[Zela]

Hi! Two questions:
1: How exactly do you make comic frame boxes?
2: How do you make speech bubbles?

I'm about to launch Part 2 of the Totally Not-Canon Adventures of Flairé, this time from my computer. I have Photoshop Elements 7, and these are probably simple things but I can't seem to figure it out. I found a speech bubble tool but it is more like a rubber stamp. Very boring.

Thank ye!
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The rain, it raineth every day
Upon the just and unjust fella;
But more upon the just, because
The unjust hath the just's umbrella
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[Tauhid]

Oh dear. I've been drinking rum and coke for the last two hours and just... wow. This is exactly the right time for me to stumble across this post. Usually I am just way too cool to help out poppin fresh new cartoonists but what the hey now!!

I threw together a couple of tutorials a few years ago. You might find them useful. Good luck.
Word Ballons
Comic Creation
Let me know if you have other ?s
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[Zela]

Yes! Those tutorials are fabulous and answer my questions exactly - except I don't have the pen tool and have no monies to buy it. (headdesk)

Well, well, I'll see what I can do with the shape tool - I'm sure it's possible.

Messed around a bit, and I think I have something that works pretty good - it's just slow at the moment.

If you see the visual structure (or whatever it's called) of my webcomics improve drastically in a couple of weeks (I have a small buffer), you'll know why.

Thanks so much for your help!! I really appreciate it!
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The rain, it raineth every day
Upon the just and unjust fella;
But more upon the just, because
The unjust hath the just's umbrella
-Ogden Nash