Experiments With Text Bubble Opacity

Text bubble with 70% opacity. Looks a little confusing…I’ll try 80% tomorrow.

My part-time job started today. My goal is to spend the morning working on that project, then spend the afternoon working on mybook. The best laid plans often go astray, and today was chaotic, but not because the part-time job interfered screwed anything up—it was my own doing that caused the problem. To organize my work flow, I decided to move Clip Studio Paint to my Windows laptop, which, though seven-years old, is as fast as my hotshot iMac when running Clip Studo Paint, and much faster than the iMac when entering text into CSP’s dialog bubbles. I immediately ran into unanticipated problems with software updates.for my Cintiq and for Clip Studio Paint and ended up spending several hours working out the kinks before I could do any work. All is well now, and tomorrow looks rosy.

Adding Text Bubbles Using Clip Studio Paint Rather Than InDesign

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InDesign definitely has are truckload of awesome features, including paragraph styles. I used them to create the dialog balloons in my first book. However, there’s one feature that InDesign doesn’t offer: vector-based balloon tails. Clip Studio Paint has vector-based, adjustable tails built in, so I decided to learn how to use them today. They’re handy and simple to use. Great stuff if you’re into comics.