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Creating Your Own Sound Effects

Making sound effects for manga is an art form in and of itself. It takes a lot of work and skill to turn sound into text! The letters that you choose to represent a sound are important, but so are the font, the colors, and even whether you choose to distort those letters for emphasis.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Adding sound effects in speech balloons and how to group sound effect layers
  • Using fonts for sound effects by adding color and lines to fonts
  • Hand lettering and using the Mesh Transformation tool to warp text
  • Making eye-grabbing titles

By the end of this chapter, you’ll have learned how to user your skills in handling fonts, adding color, adding effects, distorting fonts into ...

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