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Making speech bubbles

Making speech bubbles - InDesign Tutorial

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Making speech bubbles

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- [Instructor] Every so often, you'll find yourself wanting to make a speech bubble, like what you'd see in a comic book. They're fun for special effects or when making social media images. So let's see how you can make a speech bubble in InDesign. You'll see that I simply have two different text frames inside my InDesign document. They both have a black stroke around them, and this one has a blue background. Now I'm going to show you two different ways to make these into speech bubbles. The first is select the frame, then switch to the pen tool in the tool panel. When you move the pen tool over an edge of a selected object, you see a tiny little plus sign next to it. That means it's going to add points to the path. So let's click three times, in relatively close proximity. Now, I'm going to grab the direct selection tool. That's the second tool down here. You can click it or just press the A key to switch…

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