Digital Planning: How to Do the Basics in Procreate 4.2

hey everyone it's Catherine and I'm here today with a procreate tutorial this is a full walkthrough of procreate version 4.2 I actually have a video on my youtube channel that teaches you how to do the basics in both good notes and procreate but at the time only good notes four was available and they've since come out with good notes five so I now have an updated full walkthrough on good notes 5 and I believe I was using procreate 4 or maybe 4.1 in that video and since then they've come out with version 4.2 which has added all kinds of new features so instead of just doing a video on the new features I'm just gonna redo that whole tutorial for anybody that is just getting started with digital planning in procreate that way they only have to view this one video and they don't have to view my older video and then come to this video to see the new features so this is everything that I'm going to cover it's a lot of stuff this is going to be a long video so make sure you check out the video description and I will have timestamps to all of this stuff in the video description so you can fast forward you can skip certain parts if you already know how to do some of this check that out below also everything that I reference in this video I will link to in the video description so that's another thing that you can check out the video description for also if you like this video make sure you give it a thumbs up at any point in the video and if you're new here make sure you subscribe to my channel because I do all kinds of digital planning tutorials on this channel so now let's get started I'm gonna go to my gallery of procreate I already have procreate open here and I'm gonna show you how to start a new canvas so if you want to start a new canvas all you have to do once you haven't procreate is come up here to this plus sign and then they have several presets for you or you can create a custom sized canvas so they've got screen size and clipboard size already and then they have square 4k a4 and 4x6 photo I think 4x6 photo was a preset I can't remember if that's one that I created or not but they have a few presets and then you can create your own custom size down here usually when I am just playing around on procreate I just select screen size because that's easiest but if I'm ever designing a page for a specific planner and I know the dimensions for that planner I come down here and I select create custom size and you can choose to enter the width and the height and if you look right here you can enter in pixels inches centimeters or millimeters so if they give you the page dimensions in inches for example and it's 14 inches wide by 10 inches tall you would come down here and select inches and then right here you would enter 14 you go to height and you would enter 10 I always recommend keeping your DPI at 300 because that is really good quality if you have a pro you can select color mode right here I always go with p3 wide color I don't know why I just always go with it but there's also RGB standard color right here I believe that's what's available to people that don't have a Pro and that's still just as good quality and you can also change the name of your custom canvas so you can use this over and over again if you want so I'm just gonna say procreate 4.2 I don't really know what else to call it and then when you hit done it starts that custom canvas for you and you're good to go it's going to instantly open it okay so now I'm going to show you how to insert a photo into procreate once again once you pull up procreate and you're on the main screen you can just select photo right here and it's going to take you to your camera roll and then you could bring in whatever photo you need to bring in so I actually have a photo of a layout that I created where I'll write down my YouTube video ideas and so I just imported that for my camera roll and it just instantly pulled it up in a new canvas and now it's on its own canvas so I can write on top of it I can fill it completely out and procreate I can customize it I can do whatever I need to do so now I'm going to show you how to import a file into procreate this is what you would do if you have pages or you need to edit in procreate saved in your iCloud Drive or your Google Dropbox or something like that in order to import that you would go here to import and then go to wherever you have your page saved I have mine saved under Dropbox and I'm going to insert a page from the truly yours planner this is a planner that's available in my Etsy shop I'll link to the video description if you're interested but since I decorate my pages in procreate with this planner I include the individual pages so you can just bring those directly into procreate without having to screenshot them and bring them in from goodnotes so I'm just going to bring in one of these pages here so that is how you would bring it in from your files and the last thing that I'm going to show you is how to export a page from good notes 5 and then bring that into procreate so I'm gonna go to good notes 5 and let's say I wanted to export this calendar so I would go to that page in good notes I would go here to this box that has the up arrow and select that and I would select export this page and I want to save it as an image because procreate only supports images it does not support PDFs and it does not support good notes files so I'm gonna click on export and if you use zoom notes or something like that by the way I'm sure there's another way to do this I just personally use good notes so that's why I'm showing good notes but even if you just take a screenshot or something at the page it should still work for you okay so I'm gonna hit save image and now what I'm going to do in procreate I'm gonna bring this in and then I'm gonna crop it so it's proportional to my page so I'm gonna go back to my gallery and now I'm gonna bring this in from my photos and it brought it in but you'll see it still has my links down here which these don't work in procreate so I need to crop those out so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to go to my wrench tool I'm going to go to canvas and I'm going to hit crop and resize and I really just need to crop the bottom part out the rest of this will still be proportional to my page and good notes so I am just going to drag this bottom bar up and then once I'm satisfied everything in this box by the way is gonna be what's left behind so once I'm satisfied with that I'm gonna click on done and now it removed those bottom links that I don't need and I just have this calendar so now using all of these examples that I brought in I am going to show you how to create a stack now stacks are a great way in procreate to organize your files you'll see that I have tons of stacks here I've actually imported all of my individual sticker sheets into Pro create since I do all my planning in procreate and it makes it so much easier to just browse all my stickers so that's what you're seeing right here I've got a digital planning stack and these are all my personal planner pages I've got a stack for lettering and doodles it's just really convenient to utilize the stacks if you want to keep your files organized so how you do that when you're on the main screen in procreate you can come up here and click on it select and then select all of the photos or canvases that you want to stack and then click on stack and it instantly created that stack for me and now if I wanted to rename that stack I'm just gonna click on the name really quickly and then I can enter any name so I'm just going to name this procreate for point two so if I wanted to delete that stack I could click on select click on that stack and then click on delete you can also duplicate the stack you can share the stack or you can preview the stack now preview is really really cool you can click on it and then you can just swipe to browse through all of your canvases that are in that stack and then if you see one that you want to edit you don't have to just go back to the menu to do that you can just double click on it and it's going to bring you into the canvas if you want to insert something from a stack that you already have you can pull up the stack and then from there click on photo or import or click on new canvas if you want to create a new canvas and you can create it from there and then it'll instantly put that in your stack for you now one thing to know is whatever is right here whatever is this first canvas that is going to be your cover so you'll see that that square canvas is the cover for my stack if I wanted to make this my official cover and I never wanted the cover to change I'm just riding on this so I can show you an example so say this is my stock cover right here and now I see it right there all the time but when I import something new I'm going to import another planner page let's just do this one again it's going to put it ahead of that and that's gonna be my new stack cover but if you always wanted this to be your cover I just find it's easier to create covers which I haven't even done for all a month but it's easier to create covers so your files look more organized all you have to do is go to your stack and then drag what you want as your cover to the front and then let it go and then it's back to being your cover so if you want to move something into a stack say you accidentally create something in the main menu and you meant to move it and you meant to import it into a current stack all you have to do is make sure you're on the main menu just select to that canvas and then drag it into the stack and it'll flash blue for a second and then I'll open the stack and then you can drop this wherever you want in your site so if I want to get behind it these two pages I can just put it there and it's going to import it there for me if you accidently import something into the wrong stack all you have to do is hold it bring it up here to the name of the stack it's going to take you to the main menu and then bring it into whatever stock you want to import it into so it's super simple so now if you want to delete this canvas like I'm going to do you just hit select select that canvas and then hit delete and then hit delete again and you're good so that is all about stacks so now I'm going to show you how to use your brushes so I'm going to open one of the canvases that I've already created and here are your brushes so that's what you're going to select to choose your brush it comes with several brushes already in the program and then you can buy brushes from places like creative market or Etsy and you can import those into procreate which I'm going to show you how to do later but for now I'm just going to select one of the brushes that comes with procreate um so let me go to this calligraphy and I'm going to select the brush pen so these are your brush categories and then you select your category and then over here you'll see all the brushes that are within that category you can click on a brush again after you've selected it to edit its settings for best handwriting results especially if you write in script or you're doing hand lettering and stuff I always recommend turning streamline which is right here all the way up but you can also adjust some other settings down here I usually don't play around with those too much other than streamline because usually the settings that come with the brush are perfect for how the brush is intended to be used other than streamline that is a custom thing that you can play around with so once you've selected your brush you can just start writing with it so I'm going to write hello and now let's say I wanted my brush to be thinner I could come over here to this top bar right here and I could drag this down and the more I drag it down the thinner my brush is going to be so I drag that down pretty far so now the brush is going to be pretty thin and it's so thin I didn't connect those letters very well and then if I were to drag it all the way up it would be super thick like that so that just adjusts the width of your brush this is the opacity of your brush and this works for most brushes some creators create brushes that are not meant to be transparent so it may not work with certain brushes but it works with most so if I were to drag this mid way down and then right see how transparent the writing is when it's all the way up it's dark when it's all the way down it's actually pretty invisible this one's not 100% invisible but you probably can't even see what I can see in the camera but um it just left some very very transparent marks so that is something else that you can play around with with your brushes so now I'm going to show you the eraser the eraser works just like a standard eraser but can also kind of work like a brush if you actually double click on the eraser you have all of the same options here that you do for your brushes so if there's like a texture brush let's say you create like some kind of colorful lettering but then you want to come through with some kind of let me see this is like a snow texture that comes with procreate and you want to just erase random little pieces of your lettering you could select that under your eraser and then just start drawing and see how it's like giving my lettering a speckle effect it's a racing part of the lettering essentially but only part of it if you have just like a normal pen selected I'm gonna go to an airbrushing brush and you have one of those selected for your eraser you can come over here and adjust the size so this would be maxed eraser and then you can just start erasing like a normal eraser if you want to erase thin you would adjust this again and you're erasing thin lines if you want to use the exact same brush for your eraser that you just used for your lettering or writing or whatever just press down on the brush and hold for a second and then it will erase with the current brush that you're using over here so now this is my brush pen that's selected so I'm just erasing with my brush pen okay so if you want to clear the whole canvas if you just really really messed up all you have to do is come here to these stock squares this is your layers panel which I'm going to get more into later click on the layer that you want to completely erase which for me is layer number one it's already selected so click on it again and click on clear and that's going to clear your entire layer so another thing I want to show you in relation to writing in procreate is drawing guides so I'm going to go back to my brush and drawing guides are really helpful if you're trying to write evenly on your canvas or on your calendar or whatever so to turn those on you go to your wrench tool and you go to canvas and you can turn on your drawing guides here and it's automatically gonna make the squares pretty big I usually size my squares down so to do that I click on edit drawing God and then you can adjust the thickness and opacity I never messed with that these are still the same default settings that came with the program but I do adjust my grid size usually so I move that down until I'm happy with the grid size and then once I'm happy with it I click on done so now when I write I can make my lettering just more proportional if I wanted to just like that and I use these grits all the time when I'm filling out my planner pages in order to get my handwriting straight across there's also some other features by the way in that drawing grid I'm going to show you some of those you'll see down here you can turn on a sister drawing and what that does is it helps you trace the grid lines so if you wanted to draw a straight line right across the grid line you would want to turn on a sister drawing and there's some other settings down there that you can play around with that I feel like is more for people that are using procreate to draw or doodle and this tutorials for people that are using it for digital planning so I can get into those in another video if that's something you'd like to see make sure you leave a comment and I will definitely make tutorials on each of those settings okay so now I'm going to show you how to change your brush color right here this color dot this is where you'll select your brush color so there's several different ways to change it they have a disc where you can just move this bigger dot around like say you know you want a pink but you don't know the exact shade of pink that you want you would move that to pink and then in this inner dot you move this circle around until you find a shape that you like and whatever is right here that's going to be the shade that you're selecting so let's say I found this pink and I wanted to write in this pink you'll see that my dog chained to pink so now when I write it's gonna be pink and I'm gonna turn the drawing guides off now so it's easier to see by the way if you want to turn this off just go back to your canvas and switch the drawing guts off so now I'm gonna show you the other way she can select a color when you go to classic you're gonna see a box right here and then some slaughters down here so you can slide this top bar around and it's gonna just show you pretty much every color of the rainbow depending on where you're placing the slider okay so then you can adjust the shade of your color with this slider and then this slider down here it will darken or lighten the color or you can just drag this dot anywhere and select a color and then now once you've selected a color when you write that looks really bad but you get the idea okay so now if you go to value there's a few different ways that you can change the colors here if you know I don't even know what this HSB is to be honest with you I've never used that but if you know what that is you can mess with those settings either by slotting these sliders right here or entering the degrees and the percentages right there by selecting that box and then using your keyboard to type in the numbers if you know the RGB code you can enter that by selecting this box right here and then entering the code for your red entering the code for your green and entering the code for your blue or you can use the slaughters if you know the hex code which is what I typically use all you have to do is select this box and you can enter the hex code I know for example the hex code for a shade of hot pink so I'm going to enter that it's FF 0 0 9 9 and now it changed my brush to a hot pink and by the way I'll link to a website where you can find all kinds of hex codes for pretty colors in the video description so now when I write it's hot pink so once you find a color that you like you can save it to a color palette I've actually had procreate for so long I can't remember if it comes with any color palettes but I've created and downloaded so many color palettes as you can see here so to create a color palette all you have to do is select this plus sign at the top of your palettes and it's gonna add your color palette above whatever color palette is currently set to your default so let me find that so it set that up for me so now I wanted to title it I can click on this box and then my keyboard is gonna pop up and I'm just going to name this test and then if I wanted to save this pink Q the color palette I can just click on one of those squares and it's going to fill the squares you can have up to 30 different colors per color palette if I wanted to delete that color from a color palette I can just hold on it for a second and then let it go and then delete it's gonna pop up and I can select delete if you've been switching colors a lot and you forgot to save one of the colors that you found and really liked you can use your color picker to save the color and it's really easy to do so let's say I wanted to save this pink and this meant all I'd have to do is press and hold on the pink then go to my color palettes and select one of those squares and now I've saved that color so now I'm going to show you again with the screen all you do is you press and hold until the stop pops up and then let go and you'll see that it changes your color dot up here and then you can save it anywhere on your color palette so I have several color palettes and you'll see when I switch from my desk classic and value whatever my default color palette is is going to be under all of those and that just makes it easier to switch your colors if you're using a specific color palette so if you want to change your default color palette just browse until you find the color palette that you like and then click on set default and it's gonna switch your default color palettes down here so if you want to delete a color palette I'm going to delete this color palette all you have to do is all matte color palette swipe towards the left and then click delete and then delete again and it will delete that color palette for you okay so now I'm going to show you how to change the background color of your canvas this is your layers panel right here which again I'm going to get into this later so if you wanted to change the background color let's say you wanted this page to be pink you can select your layers panel and then on background color just select that white background that automatically comes on the canvas and then you can browse through your color palettes or you can change the color in one of the ways that I showed you earlier when I was showing you how to change the color of your brush and let's say I wanted this to be a light pink like this light pink just click on that and now you have a colorful background to turn off the background all you have to do is go to your layers and then next to background color there's a checkmark just click on that and it looks like you have a gray background but this is actually a transparent background so whatever you say from here will have a transparent back okay so now I'm going to get into layers layers are probably the most confusing thing about procreate - anybody that is not familiar with programs such as Adobe Photoshop and illustrator but they're actually really simple to use once you get the hang of it so this is your layers panel and when you start a new canvas and you started in procreate I'm not talking about when you import a photo or a file it's going to give you your background color layer and then it's going to give you a layer number one so that's going to be the initial layer that you're writing on so for my first layer and once again going to write hello so now whatever I do as of right now since layer number one is selected it's all gonna be on this same layer so I'm gonna draw a heart as well okay so if I wanted to create another layer because say I wanted to do something else and keep it separate from this layer while having it on my canvas at the same time all I have to do is go to my layers panel and select the plus sign and now I have a whole new layer and now I'm going to select a different color just so nobody gets confused when I'm switching in between layers so now I'm going to write on this layer and even though you're seeing both on the screen at the same time they are separated because they're on different layers so if I wanted to move let's say my second layer let's say I wanted somewhere else on the screen I would go to my layers panel and I see that layer number two is selected because it is highlighted in blue and then I can click on this arrow right here and I can move it freely if you have magnetics turned on it's going to kind of snap to certain parts of the screen and help you align a little bit if you have that turned off you can move it completely freely and that blue guide will go away if I wanted to resize it I can just drag one of these blue boxes this way or this way if I wanted to just resize it by width I can do that by height I can drag this down and it's really easy to resize if I wanted to rotate it I could either do it by grabbing this green dot and then just spinning or down here there is an option that says rotate 45 and it will just rotate your selection in 45 degree angles until you're happy with it one little tip about moving things in procreate and this is pretty big so it's easy to move when I put my Apple pencil on top of the image but if your handwriting is smaller and you're using procreate for digital planning I find it's easier to put your pencil outside of the layer and then move it that way that's just so much easier because I'm just going to show you if I were to shrink this down significantly and make it really small and then try to move it by touching the inside of it see how it's just flipping that all around it's really difficult but when I put my pencil on the outside of the screen I can move it freely so that's just something to keep in mind if you accidentally work your text like I just did and you're not happy you know with what happened to it you can come down here while it's still selected and hit reset one thing you need to know about that is it's only going to reset everything you've done since you had selected that particular selection so for example if you selected this and then worked it and then you deselected it but then decided you wanted it to go back to its original format so then you selected it again you wouldn't be able to reset what you had done in that first election so you can also resize with your fingers like this a little bit I don't prefer to do it that way because I feel like I don't have as much control if you ever want to do something that you just did you can come down here to this toolbar and click undo and so that undoes everything and you can hit that as many times as you need to until you're happy with your layout again okay so let's say you have like four different layers I'm going to create two more layers purple is layer number three and this blue is layer number four so let's say you have four different layers and you wanted to move two layers but keep two layers where they are you can select those layers easily and you can do this with an unlimited amount of layers I'm just showing you a two but you could do this with four layers you can do it with a however many layers you need to so let's say I just want to move the pink layer which is layer number one and the mint layer which is layer number two first I would just click on the pink and select the pink and once again I know it's selected because it's highlighted in blue and then I would swipe towards the right on any other layer that I wanted to select along with pink so I'm going to select this by swiping towards the right and then I would go to my arrow and now I can move those I can resize those everything I just showed you on how to deal on one layer I can now do that on both of those layers they're still on their own layers but they're being edited at the same time so if you wanted to grape layers which might make your navigation a little bit easier if you have two things that you don't necessarily want to merge together but you want to keep them together on your canvas you can group those layers you can do that with as many layers as you need to and it's really easy to do let's say I want a grape layer number one two and three together I would select layer number one swipe on layer number two swipe on layer number three and then hit group and so now these are in a group so I can move them and edit them together as a group or if I wanted to move them and edit them independently since they're still on their own layers I can do that by hitting this down arrow right here and then just selecting whatever layer I want to edit if I decided that I was 100% happy with where those layers are at and I wanted to make them one layer instead of having them as three separate layers after I have grouped them can merge the layers by clicking on the group right here and selecting flatten and now that is all one layer another way to merge layers is if the layers that you want to merge are directly on top of each other you can do it two different ways you can click on the top layer the one that's directly above the layer that you want to merge it with and then click on merge down and that's one way to do it I'm going to undo that another way to do it is just by pinching the layers with your fingers so just like that and that has now merged the layers um if you had another layer I'm gonna add one more layer let's see I'm gonna do red if you have one layer in between those layers let's say you don't want to merge the heart but you want to merge layer number for it with layer number one you can just hold and drag on layer number four and then drag it underneath layer number three if you have like 30 layers you would just drag it down you know passed more layers until they're directly stacked and then you can merge it down and you're good to go so if you just want to just like part of a lawyer say it's already on a layer you put it all on the same layer but you realize you only want to edit or move or whatever part of the layer since I have two things on layer number one I'm going to show you with that layer just select that layer and then come up here to this ribbon tool right here that's what I call it and then you'll see all these options pop up down here so the way you can select it you can do a freehand selection which lets you draw just a freehand shape around the part of the layer that you want to edit or pick up you can do a rectangle selection which I'll show you all three of these down or you can do an ellipse election so the freehand selection let's say I want to move this heart I can just draw kind of a heart shape around it and then go to my arrow and then I'm just picking up my heart I'm not picking up anything else and I can resize that I can do whatever I need to to that just like I would if it was on its own layer but it's keeping it on the same layer as this hello so the rectangle selection if I have that selected I would have to draw a rectangle shape around it so wherever you start it it's gonna make you draw a rectangle there I would have to start that pretty high or low so I can start it here and then drag it up and now it's selected that heart so when I click this arrow I can move this heart again so the circle selection it just makes you do it in the shape of a circle so you can start wherever and then drag it and it's selecting whatever is within that circle and then you can move that I really only use I've never really used the circle crop and I really only use the rectangle crop went on cropping sticker sheets to put in my dish planner because that's easiest but for everything else I always use the freehand crop it's just so much easier and whichever is your last selected that's what it's gonna automatically be on so just keep that in mind okay so now let's say that you accidentally put two things on the same layer and you meant for them to be on separate layers you don't have to erase and restart you can actually correct that depending on how close together these things are so you know if you did some kind of like background and then did lettering on top of it you wouldn't be able to fully separate it this way but like let's say you wrote a word up here and then you wrote a word down here and you meant for them to be on two separate layers but you accidentally put them on the same layer you can fix that so you know for example I put hello in this heart on the same layer together but let's say I wanted to separate them the easiest way to do that is select that layer go to your ribbon and do some kind of selection whether it's freehand rectangle or ellipse select one part of the layer that you want on its own layer and then come down here and select duplicate and then you'll see that heart is now still on layer number one but it's also on its own layer so again if I wanted hello to be on its own layer I would go back to layer number one select the ribbon and just select part of it I'm using freehand and then click duplicate and now hello is on its own layer so now these are separated but I still also have the original layer which is layer number one where they're together so if I wanted to hide that layer all I would have to do is click on that checkmark beside it and now that layer is hidden and this is its own layer I'm going to move this here the heart is its own layer and these are still a layer so I can turn that back on by clicking that box and they're still there together but let's say since I've separated those layers I want to delete that layer so to delete a layer you just swipe towards the left and hit delete if you want to duplicate a layer you swipe to the left and hit duplicate and then you got to okay so now let's say you've written something and you wrote it in one color but decide you want it to be a different color there are two different ways that I recommend changing the color one way which works most of the time but if you wrote something in a really light color it may not work very well but one way to change the color is to select whatever layer you want to change the color of so let's say I wanted to change the color of this heart I've got that selected so I'm gonna go to my colors and I'm gonna change it to orange so I'm gonna select orange and now once I've got that selected making sure I'm still on the layer that I want to change the color of I'm gonna drag this dot and touch it onto the heart and it changed it to orange so if for some reason that doesn't work say your lettering was really really light and kind of pixelated and it didn't work very well it only changed the color of some of the strokes there's a way around that and it's with a clipping mask so a clipping mask is super easy to use and I actually use this more than just dragging and dropping my dot onto lettering on the layer where you want to change the color make sure you have that selected and then create a layer directly above it so if you have this layer selected when you hit the plus sign it's going to create a layer directly above this image so now let's say I wanted to change this to green I'm gonna select green from my color palette and then I'm just gonna drag it and drop it it's going to fill the whole canvas but then I can select clipping mask and it's going to cover whatever is underneath the clipping mask so you'll see now that it's gray but when I turn the clipping mask off it's still orange so what I normally do is I change the color of things that way and then if I'm ever happy with it I group those layers together so I keep them together because you'll see if I move this say I move it above high which is in purple it undoes the clipping mask but then I can click clipping mask again and it's going to change that to green so if they accidentally get separated because you're working with a bunch of layers that can be kind of a nightmare so I usually group my clipping mask and the image that I'm using a clipping mask for together so I have my clipping mask selected now so now I'm just gonna swipe towards the right on that heart and I'm gonna click on group and now they're grouped together and if I'm totally happy with it and I know there's no way that I'm gonna want to change it after I've grouped it I click on flatten and now it's permanently green and it's not gonna be orange again unless I change the color and orange so this method also applies to textures so if you want to overlay lettering or an image in a texture you can do that using a clipping mask as well I'm going to show you how to do that now make sure once again you're on the layer that you want to cover it with the clipping mask so now you would insert that texture that you wanted to use or that picture so to insert a file or a photo into a canvas on procreate you select this wrench tool and you click on add and then you would click on insert a file if you wanted to insert a file from Dropbox or your Google Drive or whatever and you click on insert a photo if you have the photo that you want to use saved to your camera roll so I'm actually going to use a texture by blog pixie that I purchased don't create a market and I'll link to it in the video description and I have that saved to my Dropbox so I clicked on insert a file so I'm going to use this gold Sparkle texture right here okay so the main thing that you want to make sure of is that the texture is covering whatever you want to create a clipping mask for so you'll see that it's not some of the red is showing to the side so I can just slide that over and it's covering the red if you have a particular area of the texture that you want to use I would recommend shrinking the texture down because that's going to come into play when you're overlaying something in a texture whatever is directly on top of the image that you're trying to overlay is what is going to show up in the texture so you'll see if I just move that over I have my heart completely covered but I don't size it down and then I come here and I create a clipping mask it's just showing a small portion of the texture which I actually like that's how this gold texture is intended to be used but if I had some kind of like rainbow texture I'm just going to create a texture really quick to show you an example so let me clear this and I'm gonna make a rainbow texture okay it's not a full rainbow but you say it's four different colors so I could just stretch that out and make this huge okay so now that is covering my heart and it's covering most of everything so now if I create a clipping mask with that the way that it is now you'll see that I only changed that heart to green because the green portion was the only part covering the heart but if you have a texture like this and you shrink it down and you still want to make sure it's completely covered but just shrink it down just enough so you have the whole thing covered but it's still pretty small and then I select clipping mask you see there's a little bit of the green right there but you see it gave it that striped texture because the whole texture it was covering the heart if you want to fill an object with color um just like you know this heart for example all you have to do is make sure you're on the layer that you want to fill so I'm gonna do this red heart and let's say I want to fill it with a light pink so I'm going to select light pink so I'm on that layer so I'm just gonna drag and drop this dot into the white space and it fills the white space and that's just something I like to do when I draw hearts and stuff like that but that applies to anything let's say it like you bring in an image and it is a outline of like a coffee mug that you found on Google and there's tons of like white space you can fill that in as well because procreate will pick up those black lines and we'll know what to fill I know some of my planners come with some coffee mug stickers just like that I'm actually gonna pull one and now so I can show you okay so this is a coffee sticker that comes with my pink peonies planner and see how it has all of these black lines I keep writing on the canvas I'm sorry oh it's got all these black lines so if I wanted to change the color of just the outline of the mug I'm on the mug right now I could select a color and then bring that and drag it and drop it and you'll see that it changed all of the black lines that connected it did not change the color of the heart because the heart was not connected to the other line so if I wanted to change the color of that as well I'd have to drag and drop again if I wanted to fill this coffee mug in once again I'd make sure I was on the coffee layer select the color that I want to use and then drag and drop it on the section that I wanted to use so this isn't a look hideous by the way because I have no idea what colors to match with this but let's say I wanted to make the actual mug pink so I'm gonna drag this in to fill the mug and I have to drag it in twice because this is part of the mug and this is part of the mug and then I'm gonna fill the heart in with pink as well but let's say I wanted to make the sleeve green I would drag that part into the sleeve and let's say I wanted to make the lid blue so I can drag that in that's the bottom part of the lid and that's the top part of the lid so you have to do it by section if that makes sense if you're changing the color of the line it'll change all the lines that are connected if you're filling color then you have to do it piece by piece if it has multiple different lines in it just like that so now I'm gonna delete this okay so now I'm gonna show you how to copy a layer from one canvas to another because this is something that I do when I'm using my stickers for planning in procreate so I'm gonna go back to my gallery and I'm gonna go into one of my sticker stacks which by the way I have a full tutorial on how I created these sticker stacks and I will link to that in the video description but let's say I want to pull in some colorful stickers and I'm gonna bring in and I'm gonna bring in these small stickers by paper crown planner and I'll link to these in the video description so I pulled up this kit this is on its own canvas right now once I wanted to use this sticker sheet on my monthly calendar so what I would do is I'd go to my layer and all of these stickers are on the same layer right now so after I see that the layer is selected I can click on it again and click on copy and so I already have a monthly calendar pulled into procreate so I'm going to go to that it's right here and now when I go to my layers I'm gonna see that layer number one is actually this calendar since I pulled in an image I saw my background color and then I've got my calendar right here so I'm gonna create a new layer and then I'm gonna three finger swipe and I'm gonna hit paste and so it's brought in that sticker sheet I highly recommend you check out the video description because I have a January plan with me which will really show you how I use procreate for digital planning but what I like to do is crop from my sticker sheet I always keep my sticker sheet in the same canvas as my calendar layer and I usually just hide the layer when I don't need it and then turn it back on when I need another sticker and I always keep my sticker sheet as the top layer so I can see it so if I wanted to just crop these days right here on my sticker layer I would go to my ribbon and zoom in and for this I'm gonna select the rectangle tool because these are rectangle stickers and I would just draw a box around my Monday box and click on duplicate I would go back to my sticker layer draw a box around Tuesday duplicate go back to my sticker layer draw a box around Wednesday duplicate sticker layer Thursday duplicate and I'm going to do it for the rest of the days so now I'm going to drag this sticker layer to the top and then I'm going to turn it off and you'll see that I still have my days left behind and they're all on their own layers so now I can just move those independently over my monthly boxes and I can resize them like I need to and I can start decorating my page and now I'm going to show you a feature called quick shapes quick shapes is really cool it's one of the new features in 4.2 and it just helps you more easily form your shapes but they'll still have a hand-drawn element I actually have a separate tutorial that shows you how use quick shapes to create digital planner stickers and I'll link to that in the video description so I'm going to select orange right here and on a new layer but say I wanted to draw a square so down here I'm gonna draw a square and then once I'm at the end I'm gonna bold and see how it kind of shaped that square for me and this right here popped up that says edit shape so if I wanted to kind of change the dimensions of this a little bit I would select edit shape and now where all of these blue dots are I can drag those lines so if I wanted to make it water I could do that make it longer I can make it more narrow and it's just a really cool feature to have because see how you can still tell this is hand-draw and you can still see where I kind of messed up right there but I can more easily get a perfect shape and I don't just use this for shapes I also kind of use it for lettering when I'm forming really clean capital letters I've got a tutorial coming on that at a later time so there's the square that it's more like a rectangle now the only thing to know about this is if you don't select that edit shape immediately after you've done quick shapes it will go away and there's no way to get it back so you would have to draw the shape again so I'm going to show you one more time with a circle so you get the hang of it so I'm gonna draw a circle and once I get to where my circle meets I'm gonna hold its shape the circle now I can select edit che I can more perfectly form my circle but see how how many draw triangle and show you see how if I draw this triangle then hold and I don't select a tit shape let's say I just select this so I can move it edit shape goes away and there's just no way for me to get it back because when I hit select again it just selects the whole layer so whenever you've done everything that you want to do you on your canvas and you want to save it all you have to do is go to your wrench tool and make sure share is selected and you can choose to save it as a procreate file a PSD which is a Photoshop document a PDF a JPEG a PNG or I don't know if that's t iff or TIFF I see it all the time but I don't even know what it is don't know what it's used for if you know just feel free to leave it in the comments but I don't know so anyways since I use proprietary planning I always save my images as a PNG so I'm going to select PNG jpg will work just fine too for digital planning purposes but I just always do PNG so if you want to save it to your camera roll you can select save image you could save it to Dropbox you could save it to your iCloud or your Google Drive or whatever you want to save it to so I'm going to click on save image and now if I wanted to pull this into goodnotes I'm gonna pull this into good notes for good notes 5 is out but I've actually switched back to 4 temporarily until they can get some of the bugs worked out I'm going to do a video on that here in a little bit but I'm just going to pull this into 4/4 now if you're wondering how you would pull it into five if you're currently using good notes 5 I do have a separate video on that which I will link to in the video description so I am gonna go to the notebook that I want to pull it into and I believe it's already on the page that I want to use so to pull it in I would just insert this just like I would an image from my camera roll and then I can resize it and there it is so that saved it with a white background that'll save it with whatever background color you have selected if you want to save something with a transparent background all you have to do is go to your layers and then turn off your background color now it doesn't matter how many layers you're using you can always turn off your background color and it'll save it with a transparent background so now if I wanted to save this I would save it the same way that I just saved that other page with the background but in this case let's say you saved an image with a background as a JPEG you don't have that option with the transparent background if you save it as a JPEG it's gonna give it a background you have to save images as a PNG or else the transparent background thing won't work so I'm going to save this as a PNG and I'm gonna click on save image so I'm gonna go to my camera also you can see on this view it looks like they're both identical but when you click on this image you'll see that it has a white background and when you scroll to this image on this view it looks like it has a white background but when I click on it again it looks like it has a black background but all that means is that it has a transparent background so if I wanted to import this on top of another image let me go into goodnotes and I actually have a notebook that has a pink background so I'm going to show you there this is the burn book sticker book by looks book it's amazing I will link to it in the video description but she's got these paint paper pages right here so I'm gonna import that image on top of it so you can see that it has a transparent background because you're seeing all this pink behind the image if I were to insert the other image see it brings in that white background so so another thing that you need to know about saving is it's going to say whatever is visible on your canvas so even if you have like 50 layers if all 50 layers are visible it's going to save all of those however if you have multiple layers but let's say you only want to save one thing as a sticker let's say I just wanted to save layer number two which is the word love as a sticker I can turn off all of my other layers and now only love is remaining and I still have my background color turned off so this will still be an image with a transparent background and we'll save it just like I have previously as a PNG and now when I go into good notes and I bring that in I can bring it in from my camera roll and it's got the transparent background it does bring in the whole canvas size but you can crop that in good notes and there it is so procreate is great for creating stickers just like that but it's also good to just do all of your planning and procreate as well and like I said a good example of how I use procreate for digital planning is shown in my January plan with me video so I will link to that in the video description I can't remember how I said that already or not so let me turn all of this stuff back on and I'm actually gonna go to another canvas because there's two more things that I want to show you that are just really cool these are not really essential for digital planning but they're just really cool to know about procreate so procreate has this feature called liquify and they significantly improved it in version 4.2 so I actually learned how to utilize this technique from iPad lettering and I'm gonna link to her Instagram in the video description her Instagram is amazing she's like a procreate genius when it comes to art and her lettering is really cool so I'll link to her Instagram in the video description but I'm gonna show you how to use this liquify feature to create some really cool patterns which in turn make some really cool planner stickers and I actually have a whole other tutorial tons of tutorials on how to create planner stickers in procreate so I'll link to that in the video description as well so I'm just gonna create a screen size canvas and then I'm gonna select one of my brushes so I'm gonna just like some kind of paint brush I'm gonna try to use the ones that come with procreate so let's see here's a jagged brush let's see how that works and now I'm just gonna select some really pretty colors let's see this is one of my favorite color palette so I'm going to select this color palette so I'm just going to kind of play around with placing some of these colors randomly just like I'm doing an abstract painting or something okay so I've just randomly placed these colors so I did it all on the same layer so now I'm gonna go to this magic one right here this is your adjustments tool but I call it your wand I don't know and I'm gonna go to liquify so now down here you'll see all of these options I'm gonna play around with the expand feature down here and I'll have all of this turned all the way up I have size distortion and pressure and momentum at a hundred percent so with all of that I'm going to zoom out a little bit so I can see my whole canvas and now I'm just gonna kind of touch the canvas and you'll see how these colors are moving and this is just such a cool feature loved it so let's say I find an area that I kind of want to reduce I can go to pinch and I've distortion her all the way down I'm going to turn it all the way up and see what happens so now I can just select an area and it's going to kind of bring those colors in and that looks cool and then I like to just kind of go back to expand and play around a little more just to see what happens and then if there is an area that I want to see more of I go to push and with all of this turned up to a hundred percent I just kind of push that area more into the screen so another thing you can do you can see that there's like some light areas down here and dark areas up here and there's some really pixelated areas here I usually push those pixelated areas off of the screen with my push option um you can go to twirl right or twirl left and then just press down and it's going to twirl everything and this is a good way to get some of that color mixed in and then I'm gonna go back to expand and anyway it's just really fun to play around with you can do it in any color imaginable so you can create all kinds of really really cool textures with this feature so now let's say you wanted to turn this into some kind of image to put on Instagram or to using your planner or whatever and you didn't want to use your handwriting on top of it I'm gonna show you how you can use fonts in procreate this wouldn't just apply to this method you don't only have to do it on top of like art you can do this when you're using procreate for digital planning as well so it's kind of a workaround to use fonts in procreate because they don't support text but you can use an app called any font and you can use an app called graphic and working with those two you can easily get text into procreate so first I'm going to show you how to download a font onto your iPad from a site called creative market and I'll link to this site in the video description and then I'm going to show you how to install it on your iPad and then use graphic to type out your text and then bring it in to procreate so first I'm going to go to the creative market website I actually already have it pulled up right here and I'm just going to go to my purchase fonts because I have already purchased the font that I want to use but if you want to browse their fonts you can just come up here to the left and then click on fonts and they have so many different fonts and you can actually search by if you go to this alright here you can search by the font style and everything they've got so many great fonts as you can see here so I'm going to go to my purchases and I am going to download this bloomie font onto my iPad it's by ka designs I love her fonts and I will link to this in the video description so I'm just going to click on it and then I'm gonna click on download now then I'm going to click on download now again and you'll see that it opens up this screen so you'll also need an app called a zip pro there's a free jhaza as well I used the pro version which is a paid version I can't remember how much I paid for it because I've had it for a long time but the free version will work as well for smaller file sizes so it should work just fine for you so I'll link to this app in the video description as well so I'm gonna click on open and I zip pro if you don't see open and I zip or I was it pro right here you can click on more and then you should be able to scroll through these and find the option for izip but for me it pops up right here so I'm going to click on that and then it's gonna ask me if I want to extract all files so I'm gonna say ok ok so now to install this on any font I already have any font on my iPad as well I'm gonna open this folder and I want to install the OTF there's OTF and TTFN most fonts come with both of those versions I just always install the OTF version and I just prefer that I do that on both my iPad and my computer so I'm going to click to the side of that and I'm gonna click on open in and then I'm going to click on a copy to any font so now it has copied it here so now I'm gonna find it it's called blue me so here it is right here and now it's telling me to tap the icon to install it on to my iPad so I'm going to tap that icon I'm gonna click on allow I'm going to click on install and then it's going to make you enter your passcode once you've entered your passcode you can just click on next because you're consenting to install it and then you can click on install and then click on install again and then click on done ok so you can either open any font again or you can click on cancel it'll work either way if you already have the graphic I pulled up whenever you're installing the font it is not going to show up you're going to have to restart the graphic app so now I'm going to open graphic and I'm gonna start a new canvas so to starting a canvas I'm just going to hit this plus on blank is already selected so I don't really have to select blank and then I'm going to click on it create so now I'm going to tap on that canvas that I just create it and I'm going to come over here at to my text tool and it's going to tell you to double tap to edit so I'm gonna double and then I am going to find my font from right here so that font is called blue me so here it is so I'm just gonna type the word amazing so I'm going to use my keyboard and now once I'm done typing I'm going to click off and it's going to give me this text box if you want to adjust the size of your font and let's say you've already deselected it you can select it by just using your pencil and just dragging it on the screen to select it again and then you can move it up or down or whatever you need to move it and then if you want to edit it again just double tap it and then press and hold and hit select all and then right here is where you can change the size of your text I'm going to make this 144 because that's as large it lets you make it in graphic so now again I'm gonna click off of the text box and to get this all back on one line I can just drag these blue boxes and now it's all on one line so to copy this in to procreate all you have to do is click on it make sure you know you got this box around it click on this paperclip right here click on copy and then go back into the canvas that you want to use it in on procreate do a three-finger swipe sometimes that's tricky to get it to work by the way so if you accidentally write on your canvas just undo it and then just keep try and make sure you have all three fingers and then you swipe down so I accidentally switch to my eraser so three fingers swipe and then hit paste and it's going to bring it in it's going to bring it in small and then you can resize it and now you have text so of course if you want to change the color of that you can either change the color in graphic or you can change the color of it once you bring it in to procreate using a clipping mask so let's say I wanted to change it to white I'll just create a layer directly above it like I showed you before drag that down and then select clipping mask and now it's white so the very last thing that I'm going to show you is how to import brushes into procreate and again I'm going to get back to the website creative market and download brushes that I've already purchased from that website and use a zip and then get those imported into procreate so let's go back to create a market and if you want to search for appropriate brushes you can just type in procreate and all of these really cool brushes are gonna pop up and there's so many to choose from but I'm gonna go into my purchases because again I've already purchased these brushes and I just purchased this chalk bundle yesterday and I haven't uploaded these yet so I'm gonna click on those and I'm gonna click on download now it's going to take me down here I'm going to click on download now and now I want to open these in izip once again so I'm gonna click on open and I zip and then I do want to extract all files so with this particular brush set it is actually importing the entire brush set so it's going to import all 12 of these brushes for me at one time this was a new feature with I believe procreate 4 or 4.1 previously you had to import brushes individually and it would just import them into an imported folder and then you'd have to change the name of the folder if you wanted to remember what type of brushes they are or where you got the brushes from or anything like that but now you can just import the whole brush set all at once and it's so much more convenient so I'm gonna click on this brush right here and I'm gonna click on open in and then I'm gonna click on copy to procreate so procreate is going to pull up it's gonna look like it doesn't do anything other than pull up but then when I go to my brushes let me go back to this campus right here and turn these layers off okay so when I go to my brushes I've noticed that it imports brush sets at the very top so the most recent brush set that you import it's gonna be at the very top so now here are all of these chalk brushes and I'll link to these chalk brushes in the video description but now I can write with these or I can adjust the stream line whatever I'll need to do with those brushes so these are really cool so that is how you would import a brush set if for some reason you're importing just an individual brush what it's going to do is it's gonna put it in an imported folder that'll generate automatically and when I say folder I mean section so it'll be just like this and it'll be at the very bottom and then once you get all of the individual brushes imported that you want in a particular set you can change the name of your section simply by clicking on it make sure it's selected clicking on it again and then click on rename and then you can rename the set whatever you want to name it so that's it that's really all the basics you need to know I know it seems like there's a lot to it but the more you do it the easier it gets and I just highly highly recommend using procreate to fill out your digital planner pages I will show you my digital planner folder so you can see some stuff that I've done with digital planning and procreate starting let's start right here so see I'm just previewing all these files I do all of this stuff and procreate I know it's a lot I know for some people this is really busy for some people they like this style I like the busy style so you know once you're done you just save it as an image and then bring it into good notes and it's fun so feel free to contact me if you have any questions at all I hope this updated tutorial on procreate 4.2 was helpful for those of you that were unfamiliar with some of the new features but also helpful to anyone that is just getting started with digital planning and procreate make sure you subscribe to my channel for more digital planning tutorials and digital plan on the videos and check out my website nap time alt comm where there's tons of planner related freebies that you can download now

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Keywords: procreate, procreate 4.2, procreate tutorial, procreate walkthrough, tutorial, walkthrough, digital planning, digital planner, goodnotes planner, ipad planner, procreate lettering, ipad lettering, digital planning in procreate, digital planning for beginners

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Length: 67min 56sec (4076 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 06 2019