cry for help with computer lettering for comics

[johncomic]

I now have to letter my comics with a font instead of by hand. Carpal tunnel has made hand lettering too painful and hard to control. I notice that most of the instructions I see about computer lettering assume that you have Adobe Illustrator. The best graphics program I currently own is Paint Shop Pro 8.

Anyone out there actually use PSP for their lettering? Recommendations, hints, etc? Or should I have my head examined for even thinking about using something other than Illustrator for a job like this?

Comments

[jkcarrier.livejournal.com]

For thought balloons, I just make a bunch of overlapping oval shapes and merge them together. You can make jagged shapes with the pen tool -- instead of clicking and dragging to make a curve, you just click-click-click, like playing "connect the dots". ;-)

[johncomic.livejournal.com]

Gotcha. Sounds “fiddly but not difficult”! :)