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Floating Bubbles - Photoshop Tutorial
A lot of our photoshop projects call for different cartoon elements. Creating cartoon bubbles can be a great artistic element to use in your design projects. They are simple to make and fun when using to add some extra excitement in your artwork. In this simple tutorial, we'll walk you through the process of creating a bunch of floating cartoon bubbles.
Step-by-Step Instructions:
1. Open a new document in Photoshop. Set the canvas dimensions to 600x600 pixels.
2. Create a new layer, name it "Bubble".
3. Select the Eliptical Marquee tool, draw a circle for your first bubble.
4. Fill in the circular selection with the color bubble of your choice.
5. Press CTRL + D to deselect the circular selection.
6. Right click the "Bubble" layer. Choose "Blending Options" from the list.
7. When the "Blending Options" Pop-Up appears, click the "Stroke" checkbox. Change the settings to the following:
8. Your bubble circle should now have a black cartoon line surrounding it.
9. Create a new layer above the "Bubble" layer. Call this layer "Highlight".
10. Select the Polygonal Lasso tool. Draw a highlight selection area in the top right of the circle.
11. Goto Select > Modify > Smooth. Enter 5 for the pixels.
12. You should now how a smooth selection for your highlight. Select the Paint Brush tool and fill in the selection with "White".
13. Press CTRL + D to deselect the circular selection.
14. Follow Steps 6 and 7 in order to create a similar black cartoon stroke line around the highlight.
15. Press CTRL+E to merge the "Hightlight" layer with the "Bubble" layer.
16. Now with both the "Bubble" and "Highlight" layer merged as one single graphic, you can begin copying the bubbles over and over again. To keep the cartoon black lines with each copy, simply select the Move Tool, then holding down the ALT key, drag the bubble to create a duplicate bubble. This will then create a new layer with a new bubble on it.
17. Use CTRL+T to go into Transform mode and resize the new bubble copies to different sizes, placing the smaller bubbles right up over the bigger bubbles to give the effect that they are attached to one another. Be sure to place a few bubbles off by themselves as well.
18. Now you're done. You should now have a bunch of cartoon bubbles.
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