Comic Creation with AI and Photoshop: Visual Narrative, Panels, and Consistent Environments
A course by Daniel Arranz MolineroProfessional photographer
A course by Daniel Arranz Molinero, Professional photographer
Create adult-style comic pages with AI prompts, Nano Banana Pro image generation, precise Photoshop layout and lettering
Learn how to design a complete comic page with a cinematic, adult tone by combining artificial intelligence and professional layout in Adobe Photoshop.
You will begin by planning the page structure, panel composition and visual rhythm, using a Watchmen-style reference. You will work in ChatGPT to write advanced prompts that define characters, lighting, atmosphere, proportions and orientation of each panel, ensuring consistent design across the whole comic.
Then you will generate the illustrations in Nano Banana Pro, refine them in Photoshop, clean borders, remove watermarks and crop every image to precise sizes. You will mount the page using smart objects, guides, strokes, masks and non-destructive transformations so the artwork maintains quality for print and digital publishing.
Finally, you will focus on lettering and visual storytelling. You will create narrator boxes and speech balloons with vector shapes, use the Pen tool to build custom balloons, align them with panel borders using layer masks and choose free comic fonts that integrate text naturally into the artwork.
This course is ideal for illustrators, comic artists and graphic designers who want to integrate AI into their workflow without losing narrative control or visual coherence.
What will you learn in this online course?
6 lessons & 4 downloads
Precise Page Assembly in Photoshop
14 minutes, 4 seconds
Creating Speech Balloons and Narrator Boxes with Adobe Photoshop
13 minutes, 35 seconds
Typography Choice and Text Integration in Narrator Boxes and Balloons
17 minutes, 8 seconds
Speech Balloons Aligned With Panel Margins
4 minutes, 30 seconds
What's included in this course?
Learn how to plan a complete comic page with a cinematic tone, define rhythm, panel sizes, and distribution of image and text following a Watchmen-style reference. Develop precise prompts with ChatGPT to ensure consistent characters, visual style, and the correct proportions for every panel.
Generate the artwork with Nano Banana Pro, clean it, and standardize sizes in Adobe Photoshop. Assemble the page using smart objects, guides, borders, masks, and Firefly generative expand, then design narrator boxes and speech balloons as vectors, choose suitable comic fonts, fit the text without distortion, and align balloons perfectly with panel margins.
Recommended software & tools for this course
Who is this online course for?
Illustrators, comic artists, graphic designers, and digital artists exploring AI for adult, cinematic comics, plus storytellers and content creators who prototype pages efficiently using Photoshop and AI tools with basic software knowledge.
Requirements and materials
No extensive experience required rather basic computer skills file management curiosity for visual storytelling. Need Adobe Photoshop plus access to ChatGPT Nano Banana Pro Adobe Firefly or similar tools plus basic knowledge of layers selections transforms.
Reviews
- 3 months ago
Un enfoque muy preciso. Valoro mucho estas nuevas opciones para ilustrar ♠♠♠
- 5 months ago
Una introducción para comenzar a hacer de cómics con IA.
- 6 months ago
perfection , give a inspired
- 6 months ago
Sehr präziser Ansatz. Gefällt mir als Schriftsetzer sehr gut. Obwohl ich Werkzeuge wie Indesign bevorzuge und damit leichter und intuitiver arbeiten kann wie Photoshop ist mir auch der Vorteil von Photoshop bewusst.
- 6 months ago
Cours instructif .
As a photographer, he is an expert in professional lighting, although his specialty is travel and street photography, and his works have obtained more than 40 awards in international competitions such as the Sony World Photography Awards (UK), IPA Awards (USA), Prix de la Photographie (France), International Loupe Awards (Australia), International Color Awards (USA), among others. He has also obtained national awards in El País, National Geographic Spain, Iberia, Eurostars Madrid Tower, and more.
His work has been exhibited in numerous national and international galleries, including the Somerset House in London.
Content
Comic Creation with AI and Photoshop: Visual Narrative, Panels, and Consistent Environments
- Narrative Design, Panel Planning, and Advanced Prompt Creation
- Image Generation in Nano Banana Pro and Cleanup in Photoshop
- Precise Page Assembly in Photoshop
- Creating Speech Balloons and Narrator Boxes with Adobe Photoshop
- Typography Choice and Text Integration in Narrator Boxes and Balloons
- Speech Balloons Aligned With Panel Margins
- Final project
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FAQs
You can create a comic by using artificial intelligence to generate images and scripts, then assemble everything in Photoshop. This course teaches you how to use tools like ChatGPT and NanoBanana to achieve professional results without needing to know how to draw.
Advanced experience isn't required, but having basic Photoshop skills and familiarity with digital tools is recommended to get the most out of the course.
You'll learn how to generate stories and prompts with AI, create comic-style images, assemble panels and speech bubbles, adjust proportions, and organize professional pages using Photoshop and AI tools.
The course is intermediate level. It's perfect if you have basic digital tool knowledge and want to take your graphic stories to the next level using AI and Photoshop.
You'll need access to Photoshop, ChatGPT or a similar AI for generating prompts, and NanoBanana Pro for creating images. Access to Google Fonts for downloading fonts is also recommended.
Yes, the course teaches you how to generate original characters and settings with AI, keeping visual and narrative consistency without requiring advanced drawing skills.
You'll learn to create detailed narrative prompts with ChatGPT so the AI produces images that are coherent and true to the desired visual style for your comic.