Add and fix speech bubbles and text

Overview

There are three ways to handle dialogue on GenToon.

1. Before drawing, set the dialogue on the scenario card and the AI draws the speech bubbles and text right into the art.
2. After drawing, if only the words are wrong, use Fix text to replace the text where it sits. It’s free (for now, Korean and Latin letters only).
3. Yourself, type text in the Single Panel tab and place it on top of the art. That’s free too.

Before drawing: set the dialogue on the scenario card

Each panel on the scenario card has a 💬 Dialogue & narration (shown as text on the image) section, and the lines there are drawn into the art as text. If a panel is folded into a short summary, click its Edit button to open it. You can edit or delete lines right there, or add a new one and choose who says it. For each line you can pick a bubble style (Normal, Shout, Whisper, Thought, and more), and for spoken lines an expression too.

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For details, see Read and edit the scenario card.

After drawing: fix just the text

1. In the panel tools (the vertical button strip next to the panel you want to fix), click the “T”-shaped Fix text button.

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2. GenToon finds the speech bubbles in that panel and outlines them. Click the bubble you want to change.

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3. Under Which line is this?, choose the line that was in that bubble. If it isn’t listed, click Not in the list. If the panel has no saved dialogue, there’s no list, so just type the new text.

4. Type the new line and click Replace. You can also press Ctrl + Enter (Mac: ⌘ + Enter).

5. When you’re finished, click Done or press Esc.

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When fixing text doesn’t work

• It only finds text inside bright speech bubbles with a closed outline. It can’t find colored boxes, signs, or sound effects.
• On pages with several panels, it doesn’t guess which line a bubble holds. Pick it from the list yourself.
• New text is written in the GenToon font, so it looks different from the AI’s hand lettering.
• For now, only Korean and Latin letters work (including accented letters used in Western European languages, such as é, ñ and ü). Japanese kana, Chinese characters, Cyrillic (such as Russian), Arabic script (Arabic, Urdu), Thai, Hindi and Bengali script, Vietnamese and Turkish letters such as ơ, ư, ğ and ş, symbols like ♥ and ★, and emoji can’t be used yet. If you type one, GenToon tells you which characters aren’t supported.
• Long lines won’t fit in small bubbles. Try a shorter line.
• This works in the web Studio. It isn’t available in the app.
• A text fix isn’t saved as a new version in Generation History; it only shows there as the current image. If you pick another image in the history, the fix is gone and can’t be picked again from the history.

If fixing the text isn’t enough, use the pencil-shaped Edit button in the panel tools, or tell Zennyang the new line in the chat and have the panel redrawn. That costs the price of one image. See Edit panels by chatting.

Yourself: place speech bubbles on the art

1. On the canvas, select a panel that’s already drawn, then open the Single Panel tab on the right.

2. In the Balloons & narration section, switch from AI lettering to Type directly.

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3. Pick a bubble shape, or choose Text without a shape for plain text.

4. Type your text in Dialogue or narration, then set the text size. If you picked a shape, set the bubble size too.

5. Click Place on the image to place it on the panel. Drag it to move it, and double-click it to edit the text.

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Remove speech bubbles

• Before drawing, delete that panel’s dialogue lines on the scenario card.
• For a panel that’s already drawn, click the pencil-shaped Edit button in the panel tools, check Remove all speech bubbles, type a short note such as “Remove the speech bubbles” in Edit Instructions, and click Apply Edit. The button stays off while Edit Instructions is empty. This costs the price of one image. The checkbox only appears when the panel has saved dialogue; if you don’t see it, edit the panel through the chat as described below.
• When editing through the chat, turn on No speech bubbles on the edit confirmation card. This also costs the price of one image per panel.

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