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Easy comic panels in Photoshop

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Today I learned a neat trick while working in Photoshop. I thought it would work nicely for creating comic panels so I thought I’d share it here. This is probably old news to some but maybe there are people like me who just now hear about this.

The first thing I did was open a new canvas the size of the page. Then I proceeded to create several panels using the Marque and Polygonal Lasso tools. You can create these separately or at the same time, it doesn’t matter. It might be more convenient to create all panels on the same layer but it’s not necessary either.

I filled in the panels with grey just to make them visible here. The colour doesn’t matter.

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Then I double click the layer(s) to get to the layer properties. There, on the Stroke tab I set the desired colour, width and any other property of the panel line.

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The great thing about this is that you can modify (cut, expand, even out, whatever) the panels but the line still follows the outlines of the panel. I think this is much more convenient than using a manual stroke because if you want to edit the panels you need to erase and recreate the lines. Here you don’t have to do this.

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I did this in Photoshop CS6 and I’m not sure if/how this works in other versions.

I hope this is useful!

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