If you don't like what you get just undo it and try again with a different thickness. The line thickness to use depends on the resolution of the image and how thick you want the line. This draws a black line round all of the bubbles. This fills all of the selected parts of the layer.įinally I set the pen to black and use 'Stroke Selection' from the edit menu. Once I've selected all of the speech and though bubbles I set the pen to white, select the bucket fill tool and click on any selected part of the layer. I find it easist to draw each circle away from anything else then drag it over until it merges with the others. I use freehand select to draw the spouts, or whatever you call them, going to the character's mouths, still in add mode.įor those bubbly thought bubbles I use a lot of overlapping circular selections. For captions in boxes I use the rectagular select tool. I make sure that I have the mode set to 'add to current selection' so they all get added to the layer. I use the elipse select tool to select an eliptical speech bubble round each bit of text.

Next I create a new layer above the image but below all of the text layers. Here is the approach I developed.įirst I type in the text using the text tool and try to shape it into rounded shapes. I did a bit of fiddling around with this in Gimp.

Comic life 3 how to shape panels