From the course: Designing a Retro-Style Superhero

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Drawing the talk balloons (a.k.a. speech bubbles)

Drawing the talk balloons (a.k.a. speech bubbles)

From the course: Designing a Retro-Style Superhero

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Drawing the talk balloons (a.k.a. speech bubbles)

In this movie, I'll show you how to draw the talk balloons as a single shape layer. Now, you may say the talk balloons are already drawn, Dieck, but, we can go ahead and turn this guy into a kind of template by selecting in the layer, here inside the layers panel. And assuming that your rectangular marquee tool is, once again, selected. Then you can just press, let's say the three key to reduce the opacity of that layer to 30%. And now, I'm going to zoom in so I can better see this top text and I'm zooming by the way by pressing Ctrl and space bar, that's command and space bar on a Mac and clicking. And now, I'm going to select the rectangle tool from the shape tool fly out menu, go up to the options bar and make sure that shape is selected on the far left side so that we're creating a new shape layer, and then go ahead and drag like so in order to trace the talk bubble from the template, and assuming that you're working in Photoshop CC. Things are pretty different here than they were…

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