How to create colorful clouds with Gimp to add to photos or drawings to insert text to show dialogues between characters like in comics
A comics or cartoon they have not known any crisis for decades and the development of the web and new readers has done nothing but multiply the supply of these products. So, a conception of comics in a broad sense can include other forms of very popular expressions, such as MEME. One thing common to all cartoon strips is the presence of
clouds
where is it inserted text to show the dialogue between the protagonists of the scene visible in the photo or drawing.
In this article we will see how to create these bubbles in the form of
rectangle, with rounded corners and shape
elliptic, including, however, that characteristic appendix that indicates the person to whom the text refers. In a future post we will see how to create even more complex cloud-shaped comics that are the most used.
Later we will also see how to add borders always with
GIMP
and how to use comics to simulate a
chat on video through the tools
da vinci resolves. But let's step by step and start seeing how to create colorful comics to add text and indicate who is saying it.
posted on my
Youtube channel
a tutorial showing the steps on how to create different styles of comics.
Who hasn't yet gimp
on the computer you can go to the button downloadchoose the link for your operating system and click on the download option Gimp directlyfree and multiplatform program that reached the version 2.10.30
at the time of writing. Open gimp and go up
File -> New.
In the window that opens, set the appropriate size, for example
1920 x 1080 pixels, and click on
+ advanced options. You choose
Transparency inside fill with then click on OK to view the project transparently.
You choose the tool rectangular selection is at
tool optionscheck a
Rounded edges.
You draw the rectangle on the transparent project with the cursor and then adjust the ray rounding.
Now select it path tool by clicking on it, typing B. on the keyboard or going to the top menu
Tools -> Paths. This tool is used to add a tail for comics to indicate who is speaking.
You click inside the selection and then outside and inside again with the mode Projects. You then switch to mode To edit and click again on the first click to create a triangle. When dragging and dropping the cursor, you click approximately in the middle of the two outer sides of the selection to
bend them creating a curve.
When selecting the mode move you can move the tail relative to the rectangle with rounded edges.
While holding down the Shift key, click the button
Path selection then go to the top menu
Select -> To Path. A selection will be created including the rectangle and tail that was added.
Click on the appropriate palette and choose the color cartoon, white in my example. The tool is then selected
color fill and click inside the selection that will be colored and can be saved.
Before saving you can cut the project with the rectangular selection, this time without the rounded edges, to eliminate the overabundant part of the screen. To cut you rise
Image -> Crop to Selection.
so continue File -> Export As… to open a window to choose the output folder.
You give the file a name with the extension .PNGfor example cartoon.pngyou go up Export and then again Export.
The comic book can also be mirrored using the tool I think with the tail pointing the other way.
If it is the cartoon is selected You can also
change the color with the tool
color fill.
ELLIPTICAL STYLE COMICS
The procedure adopted for i rectangular speech bubbles with rounded edges can also be used for those elliptic.
You create the same project, but instead of using the rectangular selection with rounded edges, you use the
elliptical selection while the
cartoon tail it is added exactly as illustrated above.
Same comic type elliptic Yes, they can
color and mirror such as rectangular ones with rounded edges. If not tool options of
elliptical selection
you choose the How to add to current selectionyou can create clouds adding to the edges of the main other elliptical selections.
HOW TO INSERT COMICS INTO PHOTOGRAPHIC SCENES OR DRAWINGS
Always inside gimp opens the photo or drawing file to which you want to add speech bubbles with text. Depending on the position of the characters, they are chosen styles more appropriate for comics and import to other tabs.
You select the card with the balloon and type Ctrl +
C. by copy then go to the scene tab and type Ctrl + V.
paste it. The tool is then selected
Ladder for your resize.
After resizing and repositioning the speech bubbles, in the
Levels
a new level will be displayed floating selection. Right click on it and choose
Still level in the menu that opens.
So let's go to the instrument Text and text is added to the scene comics choosing a family
font, style, color and alignment. The text can be
selected clicking on it and going to the keyboard
Ctrl + TO.
After selecting the text, you can add the Audaciousif they can change the size and you can
Replacement with the tool move. The scene created with PhotographI comics and the
text
can then be saved inside JPG going up Export astyping the first name of the file,
output folder and rising 2 times Export.
