Bloody FA shrank it.

Here's the full size:
http://www.furnation.com/cobalt/tut.....ng-baloons.jpg

Great balloon tutorial Cobalt! Thank you :)

If you go up to directory level, I've stuck a couple other things in there alongside it, that are also well worth looking at.

in photoshop I just put a new layer under the text, square selection around them all then 'selection > modify > smooth' I add the tail with freeform selection and the shift key.

fill with black, selection > modify > contract 2 pixels, fille white, done :D

Might wanna make this tutorial jpeg a little bigger. Kinda difficult to read your tutorial there.

Luckily I am not blind, and was able to read it. Very nice, simple tutorial, easy to understand. Now, if only all photoshop tutorials were like that...

FA shrank it. Read back thru the replies. I posted a link to the bigger version.

Sorry. >.<

No prob. Don't forget to check out the other stuff in that directory.

I upped a new double-wide version. let's see if FA likes that any better

I just tried it out, Cobalt. it works splendidly. :) However, I had a couple of setbacks along the way, which I figured out.

When I tried to merge the balloon and tail, I had no "merge down" option. However, it worked just fine after I "Rasterized" the layers. Got a nice shape then.

Another thing... When using the "stroke" command to make the outline of the balloon, the stroke looked a bit awkward and rounded, especially on the tail of the balloon. I now will make certain that the stroke is on the *INSIDE* of the shape, not the outside or middle. With the stroke inside, you get the nice sharp point on the balloon's tail, and it doesn't look so unprofessional as what I had at first.

Excellent tutorial. :)

Right, sorry - gotta stroke inside. I forgot to mention that.

I heard that FA doesn't resize the reloaded picture. But I think the double wide reads better. ^^~@~^^

Awesome tutorial! That's extreemly helpful, aha some tricks I didn't know! Thankya!

this will defently help me with my upcomming comic, thx a lot

very usefull, thanks :)