Ronnie Tucker – Pet, Wildlife & Portrait Artist.

Creating a comic style speech bubble/balloon in GIMP

Jan 6, 2010 digital

In this tutorial I’m going to show you the easiest way to create a speech balloon, sometimes called a speech bubble, in GIMP.

Left is the panel I’m going to put a bubble/balloon in. In case you’re wondering, the white area is going to be covered by my balloon.

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Tags: art, balloon, border, bubble, cartoon, comic, digital, GIMP, icon, layers, magic, menu, select, selection, speech, text, wand, webcomic