User:LegoAlchemist/Photoshopper's Talk Bubble Images for Dummies

Hello, all. You have stumbled across LegoAlchemist's Photoshopper's Talk Bubble Images For Dummies page. Basically, this is a tutorial on how to make your own talk bubble image. An archive of these images can be found here.

Photoshop not included

Days Style Bubbles
So you want to make a talk bubble image, huh? You've come to the right place. In this tutorial, you can learn how to make your own Days Style Talk Bubble Image. This tutorial is fairly easy to get down. Plus, it's fun!

For this tutorial, you will need the image to the left. It is a blank version of a Days Style Talk Bubble.

First, open Photoshop. Then open your blank Talk Bubble image and the character you would like to make a talk bubble out of. For this example... we'll use Ventus. Your images are open... but Ventus is too big!



That is no big deal. Just drag the Ventus picture onto the blank Talk Bubble Image with the tool that looks like this: To know that it will work ahead of time, the Blank Talk Bubbble Image will be surrounded by a black border.

Of course, the image is too big! You'll only be able to see a part of Ventus at this point. If you expand the window, you'll see Ventus surrounded by a line. (If you don't see it, click on again)

Then, grab one of the corner boxes and just drag it down to size. It doesn't have to be perfectly strait looking, but don't have something lopsided! That looks bad!

Okay, now all you need to do is crop the image a bit. For this, all you need is the eraser tool:

Just carefully erase along the black line, using the edge of the tool. You might need a big brush size for this. (to increase or decrease the brush size, there is an adjustment bar in the left hand corner of the screen) Until you get something like this:



You're almost done! All you need to do now is crop the image. To crop, click on the following tool: When you drag the curser, it will form a box. Drag the curser across the desired image area so that it is inside the box. The section you intend to crop should appear in a dotted-line box with the outside of it shaded. If you missed a little bit of the image, just drag the box over so that the whole image fits. The right click and select "Crop" to crop the image.



Very important: '''DO NOT "SAVE" THE FILE! CLICK "SAVE AS" AND SAVE IT UNDER A DIFFERENT NAME.''' You will lose your blank talk bubble image!

And now you're done! Save the image in a place you'll remember and upload it to the wiki!

Here's the finished product:

Good work. You made a talk bubble image! Be sure to place it under the correct category on this page so we can keep track of it!

A good way to keep track of your talk bubble images is to save them all in a folder. And maybe categorize the folder with more folders. Here's mine:

It is very convenient!