Speech balloons are a fun way to perk up photos and to help preserve memories. While scrapbookers can easily add a cartoon speech balloon to their printed page, it's a little more challenging to add a speech balloon to a digital photo. Follow these steps and you can add speech balloons to your digital photos using Adobe Photoshop.
Instructions
1. Open Photoshop. Open the photo you plan to add the speech balloons to. Save this new image.
2. Create a temporary gray layer over the picture to make it easier to create the speech bubble. Select "Layer." Then choose "New Layer." Now select "Edit." Choose "Fill." Pick "50% gray." Slide the opacity bar to 75 percent.
3. Make the speech balloon. Click on the "Elliptical Marquee" tool. Drag the elliptical shape around until you get the size you want. Place it where you want it to be.
4. Switch to the "Polygonal Lasso" tool to finish the speech balloon. Check the "Add to Selection" box. Click somewhere inside the elliptical shape, click somewhere near the head of the person and make the third click back inside the elliptical shape. The final click should merge the elliptical shape and the pointed shape.
5. Fill the speech balloon with white. Pick white on the "Foreground Color" tool. Next choose the "Paint Bucket" tool. Click inside the balloon. It should fill with white. Press "Ctrl + D" to deselect the balloon.
6. Turn off the gray layer that you created when you opened your Photoshop program. Your picture should be clear again.
7. Write the text for the speech balloon. Choose the Photoshop "Horizontal Text" tool and type in your caption. Experiment with fonts to find the one that best suits your photo.
