Speech bubbles and other text can transform an image wildly, even just captioning existing images then sharing them is common practice.

Unfortunately, some artists just aren’t skilled at it. I’ve even seen highly skilled, emotive drawings with an MS Word plain-white speech bubble and Times New Roman text hacked over it by the creator, crushing the work’s atmosphere. Matching the work’s style is important.

I would like a tool or workflow that lets me quickly add and adjust a stylized speech bubble to an artwork. I haven’t really explored any templating/prefab/preset options in, say, Krita or GIMP or Inkscape, or any comic-making tool, so if there’s a dynamic way to do this rather than me poorly copy-pasting-stretching a raster or manually drawing every time, I’d love to know. I really just want to avoid it taking more than a couple of minutes to add a nice-looking dialogue. Ideally: select a style, type in the text, and place it on the image.

Some random examples of different forms text can take.