How to Make Sound Effects in a Comic Book in Photoshop
Comic books may be one-dimensional worlds, but the characters that live within the flat, colorful panels experience more than just the “swish” of the pages flicking back and forth. To add sound effects to comic-book pages, take advantage of Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop’s shape and text tools – which Photoshop calls “type” – let you add the familiar sound effect bubbles and balloons. Photoshop even comes standard with a comic-book font. Let your comic books “sound off” with Adobe Photoshop.
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Instructions
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Launch Adobe Photoshop. Click the “File” menu. Click “Open.” Browse to the comic-book page to add the sound effects onto and double-click the file name. When the image opens, if you cannot see the entire page, click the “View” menu and select “Fit on Screen.”
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Right-click an icon of a curvy star, gray square, line or gray circle near the bottom of the “Tools” column on the left side of the screen. Choose the “Custom Shape Tool” option from the menu.
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Pull down the “Shape” menu at the top of the screen. Scroll to one of the talk-bubble shapes/balloons and click it.
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Position the cursor on the canvas. Click, hold down the left mouse button and drag to form the balloon. Release the left mouse button. Drag the balloon into place into the top of the comic panel.
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Click the “T” icon on the “Tools” pane. When the "Type" toolbar opens at the top of the screen, choose a font such as Comic Sans. Click black for the text color and select a size that will fit the balloon.
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Click inside the balloon and type “POW!,” “BANG!,” “BALOOP!,” “BOOM!,” "CRASH!" or another type of sound effect your characters are experiencing.
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