These Photoshop brushes were inspired by Rivane Neuenschwander’s contemporary art collection at NY MOMA, which was blogged about on Poppytalk by contributing writer Lisa Solomon.
Thought bubbles are widely used as captions in Japanese fashion magazines (ie. Papier, Mini, and Zipper). Seeing them used in a magazine layout in this way, I thought speech bubbles would also make cute web captions. But it wasn’t until I saw the speech bubbles in Rivane Neuenschwander’s art collection that I finally set aside the time to learn Photoshop’s infamous Pen Tool and use it to make some bubbles. This video helped me a lot — but I gotta admit that I have a lot more practicing to do. :)
In any case, my hard work paid off and today, I offer you 19 Premium Photoshop Speech & Thought Bubbles. Instead of offering them as clip art, I made them into Photoshop brushes. After all, brushes are really flexible — you have the option of choosing a speech bubble in any color you like, you can choose any size you want, and you can combine different impressions to create a speech bubble shape that is uniquely your own (more in demo).
By the way, Taco and Chico are both wearing Les Moustaches (free clip art), courtesy of the lovely Minitoko.
If you’re not familiar with Photoshop brushes, check out the following demo:
PS: The Letterpress Effects screencast was featured as part of Ez’s Pinterest Picks on Creature Comforts this morning — muchas gracias, Ez!
les moustaches from minitoko
komika title from font squirrel
prophecy script from dafont
cheap pine from myfonts
script bt from myfonts
pilgi
| PREMIUM Speech & Thought Bubble Brushes FILE TYPE: ABR (246 KB) DOWNLOAD |
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yay for pen tool! :) & thanks so much for these goodies. so wonderful! also…um…taco looks fab in a mustache & plaid. chico is a bit too cool for school.
thank you for sharing!
& taco is definitely cuter than brad pitt! :)
Hahaha, those are so cute!
love these Katrina! The pen tool is difficult but so rewarding once you get the hang of it ^_^
thanks a bunch, katrina :)
Love these Katrina!! Such a cute idea :)
*giggles*
Eat your heart out, Brad Pitt :)
Thanx god for pugs, they always brighten the day!
sadly i don’t have photoshop (yet), but these are fab so i snagged them anyway! i love the idea of making your dogs talk with these haha!
that’s so useful!! thanks katrinaaa :D
Yay!! Downloading this as soon as I get home. I have some thought bubble brushes, but I never really cared for them. These will definitely do! the mustache brushes are adorable too!
Thanks for sharing! Hope you had a great weekend :)
click, click, hooray Katrina! certifiably INSPIRED – i never thought to combine impressions before…awesome tut lades. my heart’s racing to get a jump start on these new goodies. honestly you give me more highs than a shop sesh at Sephora!!! thank you.
Oh Katrina, thank you so much! I’ve struggled and struggled with message bubbles! I can make them in AI, but then I can’t get them sized right for what I want in PS…this is going to be awesome! :)
Congrats on the feature! Great idea for next outfit post thanks. :D
that dog is definitely hotter than mr. pitt.
This is a really neat idea! I’ve seen something similar before but they weren’t brushes, they were mainly stickers, so they weren’t as customizable as you said (changing the size, color, etc.). The pen tool is a bit difficult to master at first but once you do, the results are worthwhile.
Love the picture of your dog!
These are so great. Thank you Katrina!
So cute and lovely!
I already love these! They are locked, loaded and at the ready in my photoshop . Can’t wait to get started with them. Thanks so much!
These are adorable! Thanks for yet another great tutorial. :D
Thank you Katrina! your pug is adorable and way better looking than Brad Pitt. :) I love the new blog layout -(ive been away from internet land for a while so maybe its not that new!)