The text tool is accessed by keyboard by pressing the F8 key.

Even though the balloon can be typed out later, I like to have the text typed out beforehand. The Speech Balloonīefore the balloon can be drawn, the speech for it must be typed out. This tutorial covers the basic speech balloon. These most often appear in one of three variety: regular speech, exclamation or shouting speech, and thoughts. The most basic item of a comic is the speech balloon (also known as speech bubbles, dialogue balloons, or word balloons). This tutorial is written using Inkscape 0.46.

This series of tutorials expects a very basic understanding of Inkscape, but should be understandable to a patient newcomer to Inkscape who’s ready to explore the software a little to find what’s written about here.

This series of comics will be specifically for use in making a comic out of anime screenshots, but the same information can be applied to photograph comics and hand- or computer-drawn comics. This is the first in a series of tutorials on using the free vector image editing software, Inkscape to make comics.

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