Procreate 5 COMPLETE ARTIST’S GUIDE

okay procreate five has now been released it's been a couple years since they did an overall app guide I did one when version four came out but that's two years ago when I was considering releasing a video solely about the the most recent feature changes I realized that actually I needed to do a new overall guide to incorporate all the little incremental changes that have come along since the last time I did a full guide as well now I've been using procreate for a good few years now fantastic app there's loads of really interesting things that you can do on it and loads of really interesting new features so I'm going to run you through the basics and I'm going to start digging into the new features and and really gain depth personally I like to be shown something rather than reading something getting a handbook it's much better to actually be shown something and have it explained to me as well so I figured that you would appreciate that perhaps to now have just uploaded a specific video going into the animation process because it did uptake my YouTube video intro so if you want to see a little bit more in detail tutorial how it actually did that then it's worth checking out my most recent upload as well but to begin with the first thing you would find when you actually install the app is that you'd come to a gallery situation like this obviously it wouldn't be full of my artwork it would be actually it would have a few example artworks that they would provide to you now assuming that you just went straight ahead and opened one of the artworks that was actually there and you just wanted to take a look around the interface first I'm going to explain the basic things that you would expect to find and then I will start going into some of the other few things as well so to begin with when you look around the actual frame of the canvas itself you're going to notice various different symbols and things around the edge of it now these first five areas up at the top right these are probably the the bits that you're going to use the absolute most you're going to use these all the time if you're actually using the app now the first icon you've got here is your actual sword paint icon so you can sketch with it you can ink word that you can paint with it and you've got low as hundreds in facts of different types brushes so if you tap on it here you can see all the different options so you can create your own brushes too you can change all the features and details of each and every every type of brush just so much you can do it in that section but I've got a twister and I'll get more into detail into that later the next section you've got here is smudge and it is pretty much as you'd expect it's much as things it blends things together briefs really useful kind of feature you could achieve some of those kind of techniques with certain of the brushes because there are kind of wet brush effects now but as a general smudge tool this is really pretty good having said that you can also change the kind of brush type and the texture and the way that that switch tool actually interacts with the image that you've created too and that goes also for the erase tool so this enables you to rub out anything that you've created on a particular layer but you can also change the features of that brush to here you've got the layers section if you familiar with anything like Photoshop or any other kind of our editing app or our program you're gonna be familiar probably with the idea of using layers to actually create your artwork so it could be that you just wanted to isolate certain areas you're not confident about what you're going to do next so you'd rather do on a different layer and then merge it later on either way I can't imagine producing digital work these days without actually making use of the layers it's incredibly important to my workflow and just a vital part of what I actually do as an artist now now obviously another major section when you're doing anything creative is to the use of color the use of color in digital artwork is just amazing I'm a traditional artist previously so I would start with I was using color pencil crayons then I graduated to paint and printing and other materials but never has it been as flexible and as versatile as it now is with digital paint just amazing the things that you can do with colors and there's a whole set of really amazing new features that come along with in this color section as well I'll get into those in more detail a bit later the next thing you're going to want to use is the slider here and now you've got the brush size so you can have a much larger brush it depends which kind of brush you use if you go on to for example the airbrush you've got some really large brushes here and you can go huge with those or even within the airbrush there too you got a bit smaller so you can really fine-tune even wins within the same type of brush you can really get into extreme sort of modifications and fine-tune exactly how you're going to use it that's the brush size now the next thing you'll find between the two sliders is a button here now if you press here it brings up this eyedropper tool he's got a little section in the middle therefore just bring that up again it's got a little crosshair in the center if you are looking to put it over a certain area then it's magnified there too I'll just drag it from the edge instead actually if you wanted to put it over an area we've found a particularly interesting color so I wanted that type of purple let it go over there and it's just then selected it for you within the color picker another way of doing that is to hold the button down so hold it there I want to select that color there and you can see it's just selected it for me do that again press and hold it I've now selected the color there it's a little bit easy if you press and hold it like that I guess and you can see a bit more accurately although to be honest I'm in the habit of just pressing and holding on a particular area with a natural finger and then it does the same job now this button here can be reprogrammed to do all the things I'll go into a bit more detail about that also a bit later at the second slider here so you had the brush size on this one you have to brush up pasty see if you have it on 100% and you're gonna get a really saturate version of that color and if you turn it down you're gonna get a much more translucent version so you've got fully opaque and then you've got a much more transparent version if you take it down you come to this bottom section here now I don't know how well you can see that it's only that colors up a little bit or the brightness up rather there are two little sections here I guess it's not really visible could have not done anything but if I change here what I've got in this canvas and you can see there now there is an undo button so I can't do it and there you go a redo button so I'm going to undo that because there's nothing I wants to see add it's that particular image it is a finished image now on the top left sort of lots of those we've looked at those on the top left we have some different icons here now the gallery button takes us back to the gallery and then we can start to do things here we have more canvases we can rearrange everything we've got and that's what the icon does so the next one is the actions all the practical features you need to insert Josje canvas and the elements within it and tweaks up the interface and touch settings and really all the things that are going to help with your workflow are contained within that section so we're going to more detail about all these things I'm just gonna whisk through that for now so you've got the adjustments here and you can see just from the titles the kind of things that are going to be included in that but you can really sort polish and perfect your artwork really make it professional-looking you can stop sharp and blur liquify close loads of really great features there's a couple of new ones there as well here is your selection tools analysis a way of just selecting an area that you want to actually modify maybe you don't want to modify the whole thing you just want a particular section so there's all sorts of ways that you can do that more detail and then the last one is transform so again this kind of selects everything that would happen to be on that layer and you know you can rotate it you can squash it you can do all sorts of different things to that now in terms of this interface there are things you can do to change it so within the actions and preferences you've got the choice here of changing from a dark interface to a light interface now if you're working outside perhaps these dark edges and sort of the toolbars the dark grey not gonna be as visible as it would be if you change it to a light interface now another feature is that you might want to change the interface that was here and now it's just put it on the left side well you can toggle it and go to the right side that's as well now because we're working on the light interface then it changes everything so previously it was a dark sort of rectangle here with white with white brush examples we've gone the opposite way so we've got a light interface with dark brush examples so you can see it really sort of completely inverts all the kind of way that it were presenting to you now with indeed the Preferences also you've got the option of having a brush cursor they'll only see that fully when the brush is a little bit larger I don't know whether you can see that for going to this area you can notice that the actual brush that I'm using is now got little dark black circle maybe if I go to a bigger brush you'll see that a little bit better turn the size of the brush up and you can really see there as a dark edge this shows me exactly the size and placement so I guess that's quite useful if you want to go right up to the very edge along something you don't want to make any errors along the way then that could be a really useful feature for you now I've got used to using get without that and I'm absolutely fine not bothering to use that but for some people that's going to be a really important feature now another thing that might annoy you sometimes is the fact that you've got all this I mean to be honest feed the actual interface in procreate is quite streamlined but it might be that the information that's around the edges there is a little bit annoying and you want to have absolutely no distraction there around the frame and you can get rid of all of doing of those things by using four fingers and tapping and it just puts away the two sides of interface there and do the same again it brings them back I'm just gonna put the Preferences back to a dark interface I'm kind of used to using it this way it's a little bit strange for me to use it either way but I guess you get used to where you use the most and it's absolutely fine and another thing that you can do within your preferences you probably see is the project canvas now if you use this it's going to well it's going to be required for you to connect to a second display via airplay or cable and they will project only the canvas of that up onto this screen and I guess you will use this a bit like a graphics tablet and you can look at the projected image in full without the interface irritating you at all but then it does create a little bit the separation between Hawaii you're working here and how it appears on the screen so it's not gonna be for everyone now I'm just going to cover the basic gestures that you can interact with the display with your hands with your fingers and give you a rundown of some of those basic features so one of the most obvious things that you can do is actually paint smudge it raised all the different things with your actual finger now I've got mine set so that it doesn't interact in that way but when it comes straight out of the box if you like and you install the app it will give you the option of actually painting and smudging and raising with your fingers now that's something I don't use this which often I show you how to do that a little later now another really obvious thing and into it so if anyone that uses a smart device whether it's tablet or a phone or almost anything these days you know that helps us all pinch and zoom and zoom back out it can also rotate obviously that way too if you found that you've gone too far away or too zoomed in and you want the whole thing just to fit the frame naturally then just quickly pinch it like that so you're out here pinch in quickly and then it fills the frame now if you're zoomed in here you want to get a quick sense of it like that but then you want to go back exactly as you work you do the opposite and it's taking you back to the same kind of zoom level that you were before so if you're here for example you zoom out you also zoom back in so really good for getting a bigger picture and then zoom again the same Zul of zoom level he were actually using before now I mentioned the undo and redo functions on the side here now it's really good for you too for example if you've drawn a line perhaps I just reduce that so you can see it more clearly if you've done a line you're not happy with that two fingers does three fingers we do the line now if you don't lots and lots of gestures like this in fact if you done solve up to it apparently about 250 gestures and you want to whiz back through a lot of them you could actually clear a layer if you've constructed it in a way that enables you to do that but if you wanted to get rid of a few things you can press the two things down hold it and it just kind of quickly erases all of them or you can stop it mid flow as well so you get any idea if you want to adjust how quickly it actually responds in that way you can go to rapid undue delay so you can have it so that it rid is going to take quite a while before it's going to start producing that rapid so erase if I press and hold takes a while now before it undoes it quickly if I can speed that up and this is going to be way too much I suggest it's gonna be too sensitive you might accidentally set this off and undo loads of gestures especially if there's subtle gestures you might move on to a different area not realizing that you've accidentally placed two things down and if some until eats at them all and it happens really quickly there you can see it two fingers and it's deleted them all three fingers it's read on the wall it's perhaps a little bit too sensitive that I personally opt for somewhere in the kind of center area so maybe almost a second is a bit more sensible it is possible to use three fingers and just scrub them away but it does everything on that layer just be aware of that that's quite drastic I wouldn't really do that perhaps if you're at an earlier stage in your painting or you've only got a certain amount of information on a layer and you just want to scrub it clear now a feature that I use constantly now is three fingers swipe down to copy anything and if you then go to another layer or another area and other canvas in fact and you can also three fingers down and paste it there you can see I've not got anything that I've already copied or cuts and so it's not able to paste it until you've actually done that now if you want to sort of speed that up you can you want to paste it down straightaway you can just cut some paste or copy and paste and it will do it straightaway so now if I go to my layers you can see I've got a duplicate there it's done everything on that layer it's immediately copied and pasted it immediately so I fir go back now undid that with the gesture of two fingers and you can see now it's just got the layer as it what I've already covered this but it's part of the gestures so I'm just gonna recap this one again if your four fingers you'll get default interface without the distraction four fingers again brings all the interface back now if you're on your canvas and you've drawn a shape you can press and hold and it snaps to a more precise version of whatever it is that you want it to create so I'll just hold that again so if you went to a triangle you not got a very good version of it pressing and hold it this time and you can see it's actually straight and the lines give you a more precise triangle and it's the same for any kind of geometric shape so you create a rectangle press and hold or don't let go I mean you can see it's giving you a more precise shape and that's the same if you do align to hold it and it snaps to a straight line now it shows you these sliders before if you wanted to perhaps get a little bit more precision with your adjustments you can see here if you actually move it with your finger it really is difficult to perhaps get precise we wanted to get to 10% or 9% it gets a little bit fiddly er so the best way to do that is is drag out from the slider and then move your finger up and down to do that bit more quickly actually so you can see you have a little bit more precision and ability to actually change it just one percent at a time and that goes the same with the opacity toots you drag it out from there up and down you'll notice that it's changing those individual percentage points a little bit more easily another thing you can do with gestures is you can actually merge layers he can pinch layers together gets a little bit fiddly when you've got two that are right there really close to each other you can actually pinch them together to merge them I don't want to do that so I'm going to two fingers to do that you can do that with lots of different ways you can pinch a whole section of layers and actually motion down into one I don't think you need to be aware of this you need to tap to create your primary layer so whichever layered it is now highlighted is going to be the layer they are actually using now another gesture that you'll use to do things with the layers is swiping the layers left and right you get different features that I'm going to go in more into in depth but you are using a gesture here to actually do that as well so another gesture you can use within the layers institute app two fingers on it it automatically then puts it within the opacity you can change you can turn the opacity way down or you can turn the opacity up sometimes you'll get to see that but for zoom back out you can see the impact to that layer is having so we'll show you that again your two fingers on that layer it gives you the setting for opacity straight away and you can just sort turn the opacity up and down but that slider you can see it's that tool that's actually selects it so press it again or an area within here the opacity so actually accept the change that you've just made you touch you have to press that highlighted icon now if you've created a leahey and you've created something on that layer just for argument's sake I'm just going to create something like that it's quite a bold and dramatic so if you created a layer like that and you want to operate the Alpha lock you just to fingers pick up eye contour two fingers swipe that way and then you can see it is actually activated that well that basically means those that if you want to continue adding anything to that layer now change to a different color just to illustrate a point it's only going to change anything within the context of what you've already created so if I just zoom in a little bit more you can perhaps see that I'll change the color to something more dramatic I'm surprised : bright orange-red zoom in now I'm working with a lot layer and it's locked for everything all the content of that layer the things have already added and now locked but any areas around it that have not done something to it will now ignore so we'll only paint within the sections have already got something on that makes sense so that's gonna be really useful if you want to preserve the edges of something but you want to change some feature of it so if you want if you had a solid edge that you really liked but you wanted to create some kind of shading effect perhaps with a different brush type then you're going to retain that solid edge will be you could do some sort of shading from that edge now another way of change of actually selecting the contents with it within the layer is to press with two fingers and hold and you can see it's actually selected everything that's on that layer so I don't know whether you can see this very well but anything that's now unselected is kind of lined out and then it's only selected the areas in there that means you can do things to that and it won't do anything that's in the background very similar to the other lock in some ways but there will be other things that you can do with that as well now within the settings you've got gesture controls and there's all sorts of ways that you can change this so you've got different tools you can change the way that you actually operate this it's really quite complex I mean you could have it for example if you go on this icon here you go back into the gesture controls you can have different ways of interacting with it so you can have press that little square button and touch with your finger and it will smudge you can toggle that on or off I generally will go into my general and disable touch actions I pretty much as an artist only want the Apple pencil to be the thing this adjusting obviously the general gestures do you use within a painting are going to affect all the things that were just shown you but when it comes to operating the main tools at or my fingers to accidentally do those things so I go into the gesture controls in general and a disabled touch actions but there's all sorts of things that you can do within here now as I was showing before you've got the full screen you can have different ways of doing that Michael showing you the default is is for finger tap but you can change the way that that's operated you can really customize it as you like but pretty much the default version of things is pretty good apart from the fact like I say that I disable touch or rather do it here disable touch actions here but you can create your own shortcuts now assuming you're using procreate with one of the more recent iPads that is actually compatible with the Apple pencil and if you're not doing I really strongly suggest that you try to upgrade to an iPad the has an Apple pencil it doesn't have to be the latest iPad pro with the Apple pencil - it could be an older version I mean all the newest iPads at every single iPad that's available to buy from this point including the the cheapest of the newest ones is compatible with an a some Apple pencil if you have an older iPad and isn't compatible with Apple pencil you can still use procreate but the Apple pencil does come with some well they're just it it opens the door to fine tune creating really precise details that you're gonna find it very difficult to do with your fingers now the Apple pencil does all sorts of gestures it's responsive to pressure and tilt amongst other things you can actually double tap it to activate an eraser you can change the different things within the Apple pencil settings in terms of the gestures that you can actually activate for the Apple pencil you can invoke the eyedropper you can do all sorts of different things you can use the eraser you can invoke copy and paste there's just so much that you can do personally I found that when I was accidentally double tapping the side of my Apple pencil yes excuse me I've got ink all over my fingers and when I was double tapping deciding Apple pencil I was accidentally bringing up the eraser and so I deselected that as an option I just found it far too irritating it's a great idea maybe we'll see in a few Chapel releasing an option to just turn it round and use the the other end of the Apple pencil is an eraser instead of using the nib I find the DoubleTap is an interesting idea but I just accidentally activates it without you know realizing at times a really important thing that I like to do within the Preferences is use the the pressure curve now if you reset it it's going to come just as a straight line what I found though that the earliest parts of the pressure that's what's represented in the beginning of this graph that means you can have to press on quite a bit to get the Apple pencil to respond if you actually adjust it and make it steeper at the beginning that means you can press a little bit more lightly and it will respond more quickly now I find it's much better in about this position rather than that it doesn't seem like you know you don't imagine perhaps it would make that big a difference but for me personally it being more responsive at the beginning of that graph much better for using now if you've got a smart keyboard for the iPad for the iPad pro whichever there are actually keyboard shortcuts for some of the things that you're going to use I'm not going to go into that if you're really interested in that and the keyboard is really useful for you then it's easy enough to find the list of keyboard shortcuts for the different sort of options I'm not really going to go into that that's never been the way that I interact with it and I think for the vast majority of people they're not going to use this app with the keyboard so I'm not going to get bogged down in that for now now another aspect of the interface that we've shown you before is to copy and paste it's really quite self-explanatory but I'll just go through it just in case you've got the court option here so anything that you've already selected viroid whatever method you could want to use you can cut it removes it and then you can put it out on a different canvas or another area of you your painting and then paste it with copy it won't remove it but it will just copy whatever's there you've got selected and then you can paste it somewhere else as well copy all will select all the information all the layers that you have visible so if you've got something switched off then it's not going to do select that to copy what do you think toggled on a little tick then it will copy that and then you can paste it somewhere else if you want to do it automatically cut and paste then you can do that from automatically copy and paste together as one action and you can use that as well now within your gesture controls I go back gesture controls you have something called a quick menu now you've got different ways that you can activate it now if I go to something just to demonstrate this I'm just going to switch it on to this one and then show you how to activate so to see just type it here and you've got some basic functions that you can actually it's kind of shortcuts basically so you can add a new layer flip vertically flip horizontally copy clear layer merge down those are ways that you can interact with that that you can change it you can make it more customizable but in essence that's it it's something that personally I don't use but you know I can see that perhaps it might be useful for some people now you might speak to another artist another person that uses procreate and they may really be into these kind of features and use them on a daily basis personally I don't their new features that I think once you've got usefully using an app or a program in a certain way sometimes you just find it difficult to get out of a particular mindset and just incorporate new things sometimes they're really valuable the new additions and sometimes you're so used to the way that you you actually use an interface the you know it's less relevant for you if you wanted to actually change your feature on here you can press and hold it gives you a list of different things that you can add as an action but like I say I don't generally use it okay so that pretty much covers the interface and gestures we're going to move on to the next section so the next section is the first area that you're actually going to encounter in procreate anyway and within the gallery you'll find a default set sort of provided artworks the protract gives you as an examples you can open them explore the interface like I've just shown you but if you want to start creating your own work then you're gonna have to start doing some things in this area so the first thing you're gonna have to do to start creating your own work is crater canvas now you've got a little plus symbol at the top corner you press button and it gives you some preset canvas sort of templates so you've got a square and it gives you the pixel proportions here as well it already tells you pretty much the kind of the color type as well within that generally I'll pick something like an egg for is plenty sizable enough for quite a detailed painting sometimes I'll go double that and I'll create my own custom and you press this here so I just got on here you see at the top here within that section so you've got creating your canvas you can pick one the default one so you can click on this symbol and then you can start to construct your own if you've got one here for example that you've created and you don't want to use that anymore you can edit it by swiping edit you can go and change it or you can delete them so when you are creating your own obviously you've got the dimensions that's the most obvious point you can change the DPI it tells you the number of layers that are going to be possible within that so if you wanted to change it to something much bigger then it's going to reduce the number of layers that you're able to use so yeah if you go for something really huge on your canvas size then it's going to seriously inhibit how many layers you're actually going to be able to use now by default here you can see it's doing it as pixels but you can change that to millimeters or centimeters however you want to actually use that now you can see that the numbers are not good good propria for millimeters centimeters or pixels or inches rather those big numbers are only really appropriate if you're actually thinking in terms of pixels another option here is you can actually tap and create a custom site and size or canvas name if you're doing something for a particular kind of task and you're going to give it a name that you're always going to understand exactly what you're getting with those proportions that you can change the name here not something I've done but you can now in the color profile you can change two different settings here now this is going to be perhaps more important when you can sort of print things I generally won't change it so I was going to leave it or whatever it's set to default but if you know something about color types and you have specific requirements for printing then this is going to be useful to you I would recommend for the majority people just don't go near this just leave it to the default setting unless you have a particular reason to change it and I wouldn't know when it comes to time lapse settings so when you're actually creating a piece of work it will create a time lapse version of it now you can change the settings too but it looks like the minimum here is a 1080p resolution beacon have a much higher resolution now obviously the higher the resolution the recording things in the more space is going to take up on your iPad and you can also change the quality here as well so you can have it completely lossless yeah and then you can get a hugely big video file that you can look back on you can take stills from and you're gonna get perfect copies of that piece of artwork especially gone to lossless you can pause that time lapse recording at any point you can you get an exact version what pains I guess that could be useful and then you've got HEV C which I've read up on it a parent's a new form of video compression for advanced motion graphics creation that I'm not terribly sure exactly what that means but you know I guess if you if you need to know it's very much a need to know kind of basis otherwise I personally would just leave it a good quality leave it to the default settings is pretty good for the majority of what you're going to need and just leave it as that within the canvas properties you can select a default background color for all your paintings it might be that you do an absolute ton of our work and you always like to start with a white background because you'll start with like a drawing stage or you might prefer something more can a grade L or a particular color even and you can set the background color to always be a certain thing or you can choose to keep the background hidden as well so back to this general area if you've got a picture you've already created and you want to actually see it you can pinch outwards and you'll get a preview of what you got takes a moment or two to click to a high resolution of that seems to take a moment just to give you a full preview but you can see how that works and you Pyncheon was to dismiss it as well if you want to perhaps move amongst different pictures you can do that so pinch out to zoom in tap the image and you know you've got left and right options so you can then move between the different image users you've actually got within the gallery another way of doing this if you only wanted to select a certain view is to select the ones that you want to preview and then you can then tap the preview button on the top and it's pretty much the same as it was before but it's just gonna toggle within a few feet your selected and it won't go beyond that point and then you can just press the cross to dismiss that mode if you within preview mode and just one that you want to create you can just double tap and it goes straight to opening the actual canvas so I'll show you that again you're in preview mode because you've swiped out and you're going through your work you think actually I need to go into that canvas double tap with a finger and that opens it straight up in the canvas the full version of it you've really gone straight into working on that painting so backward in the kind of gallery section again if you actually want to swipe on your canvas to the left gives you the option of deleting it of duplicating it and sharing it just be aware if you accidentally press Delete it's gone now if you haven't got it saved and backed up somewhere else it's tough there's no way of retrieving it it is final so be very careful when you're actually sliding to the right or to the left rather that you don't accidentally press delete because you'll be sorry about it if you do you can do exactly the same as what I've just shown you there so you can bolt select and then you can share duplicate and delete just as I've shown you there as well you don't want to delete those if you press and hold you can rearrange the paintings put them in a different order like so you can rotate artwork so if you've been creating it certain way and you want it to open a different way then now when you press it it's gonna open it at that angle she's not right for that particular painting because it should be like that so I'm gonna rotate it back but if he's still at the drawing stage every time you're opening it no easier because it keeps opening it the wrong way then a good way of changing that to do that well you will also notice is that if you leave it that way it kind of it rotates it from the last time you were using it as well so if you put it back this way go back out to the gallery you see you switch to that if you rotate it that way go back to the gallery it's opened it like that anyway within this you can rename your artwork by pressing on that's area here so a lots of mine are untitled I do give names to our paintings eventually but whilst I'm still working on it and even when I finish them sometimes I don't really come up with a title so I press and hold it you can change the title name title and you can see it's changed it now if you've got a group of of canvases in here that you want to put in the same area you can press and hold and drag it on top of another you'll notice that the thing that you're putting it over the top of changes to like a blue color when you snap over it let go and you can see stack the two together now now if you wanted to put that one into the same stack you can press and hold it won't do it properly we'll take it back within there so you can't quickly put that in there you won't do it you can actually stack and already duplicate saury if you've already got a stack you can quickly drag it over the top soon as it goes blue let go and it's stacked on top it doesn't work you are with us one item on top of a big stack yet to put a big stack on top of the singular item and you can see it's just tackled it stack now if you wanted to give it a title so I'll call it drawing no change the title of the stack now if you want to import wherever you perhaps you know got things you've got things in Dropbox or Google Drive or in your iPad itself you can do it that way or you can import from your photos to when it comes to sharing you can select multiple items you can share it gives you the format that you want to share it in so let's just say you're sharing it it's a JPEG it gives you different destinations that you can actually send it to as well really useful or you can just do the one share it same options again you can drag and drop these if for example you've got split-screen going off and you like your files open you can actually drag and drop them into files too you can also share using airdrop you can print an airdrop printer all sorts of different ways that you can share and use that option of sharing now in terms of what you can import you can import all sorts of different file types and also you can share there's different file types so you can see it supports your procreate file which is basically the file that 4-month using in here it's quite similar to a Photoshop file which is what it represents here when it says PSD so you can import Photoshop work into here and it will separate into the layers exactly how you've been using it in Photoshop which is really useful you can share and import PDFs you can share something as a PDF although I don't think that's really something that you can import it you can share something as a JPEG and you can import a JPEG you can share as a PNG and you can import a PNG and you can share a tooth under jiff and you can import those as well now back within the actual interface and back to the things that you're going to be using the most now I've given you an explanation of what these different things are on the interface but we're going to look a little bit more detail now about the sort of paint sludge and the erase tools now like I've shown you before you tap the brush symbol you've got all sorts of different styles of brushes within here so whatever it is that you're aiming for there's a ton of options and you can actually create your own too so if you're just wanting to do some basic sketching to begin with you could select something like a pencil tool now it's adding it as white but often is not when I'm starting the drawing I'll go into a white canvas change my color to something that's more akin to an actual sort of pencil color and I can start drawing straight on here and the Apple pencil and the interface here it really feels very naturalistic very intuitive and like I explained earlier you can do exactly the same with this mode you've got all the different brush types and the eraser tool you've got all the different brush types now so within the brushes you've got the different brush types you've got sketching inking drawing calligraphy painting artistic and you can go down the list of different brush types if you actually tap on one of the individual brushes here you get a preview of what that actually would look like and you can change all sorts of different settings here too you can also add a brush type you can import one you can completely change some of the different properties to create a brush type it's just a mind-boggling number of things that you can actually just within each and every single brush I suggest strongly you do experiment with these although to be honest if you're looking to do sketching and you go on to the type of pencil that you're thinking want to use which is perhaps my example 6b you're not going to go too far wrong with that if there's very specific textures and and things that you're looking to achieve you could just import a particular brush set and it's chances are gonna do the job fine for you if you really want to get into the details then you can do it's not something I do very often occasionally I will but not very often at all within each of the brush types you can swipe it and do something very similar to what I was showing you in other areas you can share you can duplicate it you can reset it had you changed it it's but grayed out now because I've not changed it I don't tend to fine-tune or adjust the brushes are already there because by default they're pretty good so once you've created your own brush perhaps you can go into about this brush you can click on here you can change the name of it and do little features like that as well so one of the things that you can do if I go back within the whip shading one that created what you'll notice the thing that created that is that it changed the spacing so I increase the spacing and it actually you can see the preview of it here it created a kind of dot between the brush kind of stamp up it is is it the the heart of that brush type when there's no spacing it just appears in the solid line when you increase the spacing between that stamp that's what I was after in this example and it's just created that effect and you can test that out with the preview thing bit hard to see there cuz I've got the capacity down on it you get the idea when you've got the streamline if you have anything such as a wobble but gone to a different pencil and experiment with these if you're using streamline it just seems to glue to the the brush size a little bit more it seems it's a little bit more sticky and it makes it less likely for you to end up with a rough line like this so you might if you try and do lines to end it with little wobbles if you do this streamline it just appears less wobbly than that you know it's very easy to draw more of a straight line it just seems a little bit more like it's gliding across the canvas that way now if you're using the jitter you can see it just off offsets it crisis hogging more spaced out kind of version of that but it does it in all sorts of random directions instead you can have a fall-off to your brush type so it can start off as full opacity and then it stopped trails off like that again could be useful in certain situations when it comes to taper you can change the way that it tapers at the beginning and end of a stroke so you can see it on this diagram here you can actually change the taper which is really kind of cool you can change the size of the taper the opacity the pressure required all sorts of different features in here and the same goes for such taper as well if you using your fingers because something previous that you wouldn't have been able to do is to actually create tapers in quite the same way with your fingers now you have an option of doing that as well you got something called a classic taper which kind of tapers at the beginning and the end which is kind of a nice version as well if you go into the drawing pad here so this is this area that is your preview if you found that you've really costed it up and you want to get rid of all so you can really see what years you're doing you can go into the drawing pad settings clear the drawing pad and you starting afresh you can also change different features are the colors you can change the preview size and you can reset all brush settings as well so within the shape settings you can change the shape of the tip of your brush by importing an image into shape source and adjust the scatter rotation frequency width and other properties of the shape and there's endless ways that you can affect these and really create different kind of things it's a whole new video just for the brush setting so I'm not going to go too much into depth of that you'll have to just experiment with that and try and explore the type of brush if if the default settings are not right for you then you're gonna have to just try and find different ways of creating that yourself if you can't find somebody else's creation that will do the job next you've got grain so you can create a new grain from any kind of image actually so if you've got a kind of photograph or some kind of image that you've got stored you can use the grain editor now wet mix is another interesting feature so you can take how your brush interacts with color and how the color you lay down interacts with the canvas so your colors are gonna interact with each other depending on at how you solve and use these different areas so you can use this to dilute the pigment on your brush start out with a lot of paint on the brush or only a little and make your pigment bleed into the other colors or pull them around really so little adjustments between the sort of interaction between dilution charge and a tag can be layered on top of other settings and to create really quite realistic sort behaviors for the paint so again dilution that I'm explaining this because it's a relatively new feature dilution is how much water is mixed in with the paint on your brush I know we're not using wards from real-life priests trying to recreate that effect in reality so if you add more dilution it's going to give your paint a transparent effect now charge sets how much paint is applied onto your brush when you begin to make a stroke so it's equivalent to source saturation in a point and quantity and how car loaded it is at the beginning so like a real paintbrush the longer you drag your stroke out the more paint it will leave behind on the canvas as the brush runs out to paint the trailer color it leaves will become less intense so recharge the brush by ending a stroke and lifting it from the canvas and when you put it back down again it will be as though you've get to back into the color on your paint palette and this effect is most obvious in company with a high dilution now in terms of the attack no strange terms here but this is the sort of explanation that protract gives is to adjust the amount of paint that sticks to the canvas so set it high for the appearance have a thick bold paint applied evenly a longer stroke now in terms of pulp you can set how strongly your brush pulls paint around the canvas including paint now has already been laid down so I guess that's gonna give it the the kind of feel of more kind of like an oil paint yeah so this is a great way of organically mixing and dragging colors around you've got grade which he describes as a way to set the chunkiness and contrast of your brush texture and then wetness jitter which randomly varies how much water mixes in with the paint at any point or in the brushstroke for a more kind of realistic effect rather than it being too uniform it just then it's going to create a slightly more kind of random effect now within the Apple pencil you've got all sorts of things that you can change his he can make fine tuned kind of adjustment style the Apple pencil actually interacts with your brush so you can set the pressure or the tilts to affect the sort of fundamental behaviors of your brush and like the size the apostasy the flow the bleed smoothing and more things - I personally don't get too bogged down in this but someone who really wants to get the most out of the Apple pencil and the way that they interact with it then this could be a really interesting area so if you want to import brushes and you've downloaded a file you just click on the plus symbol click import and you'll go to wherever you've saved it and then you can Umbro import a brush set now if it's a compatible brush so it will have dot brush after the title of the brush set or it will have dots ABR which is a Photoshop type of brushes and above compatible with procreate so any brush type Steve I'm with the dot brush after it or the end of it or the dots ABR you can import all of those types of brushes now if you've got a link to it somewhere else and you clicking it and it's asking you open with our import into then you can Oprah it in for open it into the app that way as well now if you're wanting to export brushes you can press and hold it and drag that on wherever you want to export it and you can drag and drop into there as well now you can actually rearrange any of these brushes is this a certain ones that you're gonna use all the time I do I use the airbrush to use the sketching all the time they're the ones that you want to use you can just drag and drop them to go wherever you want if you have created your own brush set which obviously I haven't I've just got the to look at ones here but if you have created them and you tap it it will give the options here they'll give you the option to delete it to share it to duplicate it which it does with these default ones anyway or to rename it now because these are the default ones it doesn't give me that option I can't duplicate it and then with the duplicate one I can do all those things as you can see okay so that's as much details I'm going to go into about the brushes there's just I could spend hours going into that I'm not going to make this video three hours long it's already going to be very long as it is so we'll move on to the next section and that is gonna be about colors so you've got various different interfaces here you've got the disc which is the one that I use predominantly you've got an option here to change different colors around the outside of the disc once you've settled on a color the alike and it appears within that disc then you have to then change how width wise how much black how saturated you want that color to be and you can see the two halves of that circle gives you an idea of the kind of color that you're selecting and then as soon as you let go of it it's going to select that it in the color there and it's good to use as a brush up on your canvas within the the classic selection you've got to save options but it just looks a little bit simpler so you can change your slider for the colors you can change here on slide if you saturation and here on a slide of the light and dark now I guess if you've chosen the color that you want you know it's gonna not gonna vary not going to deviate from that color and you can just use these and perhaps in some ways in sable you're able to find shooing a little bit more by I personally I just prefer the look out the disc of a look of the disc so I keep on that setting make up something at the bottom called harmony now it's possible to create different things within heresies like one corner and Croats perhaps an opposite harmonious color complementary color I'm gonna go into a little bit more detail on a section and then you have things like the value you can type in things like hexadecimal code that you might have found from another source and you can put it straight into here or you can take this give it to somebody else and they'll be able to recreate that exact same color and you have your color palettes here that you've may have created you can import them you can export them all those kind of things vinaigrettes a little bit more detail now however to go back to my color disc now this is a new section you've got history here so displays the last ten colors that you've actually used so if you've not been saving the colors and you've lost track yeah I've got it organized in a pallet then this could be a really useful thing to do as a half as well and you can clear it too so when you first open your wherever your canvas your document is gonna be blank to begin with but as you start to use things you'll start to see that it's selected that Colin else or start to use another color you can see it's starting to stack them up as my history you can see it's got a color palette pre-selected here you can change that so that it has the default color palette you can go back into your palettes set to different color palettes your defaults and then that's what you'll see appearing bare now this is the way that I'm used to interacting with with the colors if however you don't want that to disappear and you want to be able to use that and have it on screen is a kind of constant element and you can just drag it from the top there and you can sort of piece that around put it in a corner where you're not going to need it all the time but it's still going to be there so I'll just show you that again so I was just trying to track it from a different area didn't really work drag it from at the top there and you can put it somewhere on your work top and it's going to be there as a easy to access point rather than having to go to the corner all the time here's the slightly simplified version if you want to get rid of it as well then you just press the little X on it there get rid of it now you'll notice it's a little cooler circle at the top if you press and hold it goes back to the other color that you've used most recent press and hold again it goes back to that color see sort of alternate between the two most recent colors quite a cool feature in itself if you want to flood the cameras or I couldn't pull it try that again maybe give it a blank canvas to do that in or in a section where it can do that more effectively so if I create a brand new layer that hasn't got anything gone all right create a new layer I can drag that on and you can see it fills in completely floor data area yeah dragging onto a currently selected layer and you've not left it your finger you can change the threshold so if you just gradually increase threshold of it so you can see it's starting to push more and more of that color out into the canvas and you can control up that way now because you've done that once when you do it a second time sorry I need to switch this back on again when you do that a second time it kind of remembers what you did last and it emulates a similar thing now another really brilliant thing about the original plane parts gonna go back onto a I call a canvas for this it's getting a bit difficult to explain this point when everyone got a black and white image so I'll go on to a color image and a wanting to select a color that's on my canvas I didn't explain this before but things were talking about colors more specifically now you can press and hold on a particular area and it's going to select that color now you'll notice when I'm pressing this it shows you that the color you now selecting if you move it around you can see how it's changing and now you know it's the bottom half of that circle doesn't change because that's the color that you were using or I had pre-selected just before you're making this new change so if you have a color that you already had selected and you wanted to just change it in a particular direction you can compare a new call of the selecting with the old colors you can just slightly nudge it in the direction that you want so I showed you the option before we can select this and move it around same kind of thing so that can be changed within the gesture control preferences but I think by default procreate puts it on there so you can move this around although I'm used to using it with my finger rather than doing it this way but it's whatever suits another really interesting within the collar desk is that once you chose from the particular color that you like so if you go for this kind of car and you want to really pick the kind of saturation you can just pinch out that just to get a little bit more refined serves of detail you could also double tap and it will snap to the nearest likely kind of thing pure as fall that you're looking for so if you wanted to go through pure black you sauce double tap near somewhere around waiting that black would be and it's just snapped to the purest black version of it if you want white rather than trying to chase it around the edge and trying to just figure it out double tap there and you can see it's taken it to pure white if you want a fully saturation to the motion of the color double tap that is the purest most saturated version you want a gray there you go pinching and it snaps back again there's nothing particularly that fast they took about the classic selections pretty much covered that but we're gonna move on again to the harmony look a little bit more detail at this now when you open the harmony section you'll need to just tap here and it opens up the color disk area so you've obviously got your kind of maximum saturated versions around the edge and then as you move in you've got a kind of more washed out bleached out version of those so wherever you select around the edge it's gonna choose the exact complementary and opposite color on the color wheel which is great it's also great that if you go for a more bleached out version of it more washed out version of it it also selects that for you too you can move the slider here to change the kind of brightness affects everything on that color wheel so when you move on to the color harmony section you'll notice that it combines the saturation and hue into one color wheel so when you're at the outer edge it's a more saturated version and if you go to the sensor it's um what kind of washed out bleached out version as well and you can change the brightness you know dark and go bright within the slider just underneath it you also will have these little circles that you can move around you have a premiere on there which is the big award and you'll have either one or a selection of and now they're calling them reticles within procreate and the handbook and you can move them to anywhere so you've even see how to read you get more saturated version move them more towards the said so like I say you get more bleached-out version so within the complimentary or within the colors in harmony you've got different sections you click on hearing where it says colors and you know so you've got five different choices you've got complimentary split complementary analogous triadic tetrad ik so we'll go to the first one on the list which is complimentary and quite simply when you're on death's it goes to the color that's completely at the opposite side of the color wheel so if you go for something like a blue then you're gonna notice this this kind of orangey yellow at the other side you've got the purple you're gonna get the colors that go immediately opposite on the color wheel here so one of the advantages of using this is it's going to really create a high contrast between the two colors the reach going to be really showing off and the pale vibrant because they're contrasted with the color that's of the opposite side of the color wheel now like I was saying you can go to the high contrast version or you can go a more subtle bleached out kinda version you can make it darker or lighter and it's gonna give you the kind of equivalent in terms of all its values but on the opposite side of that color wheel which is really useful I mean in terms of actually finding the opposite of a really saturated color that's a relatively more easy thing to do but when you're looking at a more washed out version then this is a really useful added function when you go to the next option which is split complementary you'll have again the main reticle here which you move to whatever you want to be a primary color and now this is the color that you've probably use for the majority of whatever you're actually creating so this is gonna be the dominant color but then it creates this or splits opposite so again you're gonna get our hike an apart but high contrast from your main color but then you could use these two additional colors for sort of accents and highlights things that really bring out the vibrancy of that color now it just makes it slightly easier on the eye because when you're using the the pure complementary it's a really high contrast between the two this is just soften a little bit and slightly easier on the eye when you go to the next one which is analogous you'll notice that it gives you colors that are either side of your primary color so if you're gone for kind of purple you're gonna get that pink and a blue on the other side if you go for a red you're gonna get a pink an orange if you go for an orange you're gonna get somewhere there you're going to get red and yellow and that applies again wherever you actually choose to put it just too long another note if you decided that you're happy with this placement you can click on the reticle place it down in your palette rather puts it here and puts it here and you can see those three colors are now been selected into your chosen color palette now this will have a slightly different effect than the split complementary in the complementary on here if you got for a warm color you generally gonna get the warm colors that are next to it too because for a cool cool you can it get generally get that the cool colors next to it and so on when you were looking at the split complementary you get the kind of opposite here so you've got a warm color here and a couple of cool colors that obviously going to be opposite there too now when you create in a color palette with these it's obviously going to be a much karma color palette less tension less drama Magette generally across the course key much softer kind of gentler appearance to your color palette and then next we have triadic and this is split evenly although you've got a primary color there that you've chosen for your main color you do actually have kind of equal saturated equal kind of strength colors on the two different versions there so if you go for a red you've got a really strong green a really strong blue if you go for any of these strong chords you're gonna get the not the opposite but the you can see like the triangle an equilateral triangle basically across the color palette so you're gonna get quite a vibrant color scheme this way where the colors are kind of equally weighted and must of all we've got it's a tetrad ik and this is basically a square each of those colors is pretty much going to be equal in strength so you can have to be a little bit more careful if you select four colors that are all competing and quite strong you're just gonna have to be mindful of that in your color scheme so you're not going to want to create something that's just over the top now when you're doing some civic color projects some projects are gonna require a very specific kind of color scheme and that's why we have the value section within the colors so just to give you an idea of what some of these sliders do you've got hue so literally when you're on the disc you had the hue around the outer edge bring out the classic you had a slider therefore the hue it's very similar on the value sections you've got a slider therefore the hue that changes from red yellow green blue purple and then two roots this are pretty much the same red at the beginning again we have saturations you've got a gray up to the fully saturated version and we've got the brightness slider as well and it gives you percentages for the bottom two and it gives you degrees really on the circle for the hue so when it comes to digital are each color is represented by a combination of your red green and blue and you can control the quantities of each of those kind of colors that has an effect and then you can record a elsewhere as well now as you're changing all of these you'll notice within this section you've got what's called a hexadecimal code and every time you move one of these sliders even just a little bit it completely changes that code and therefore it records the most minor changes here so if you have a color palette or colors specifically you want to pass on to somebody else that's using the same program you can make a notes of these codes you can share them with them and then the next person will be able to completely recreate that so all you would need to do if you have a code from elsewhere is type it in here press return and it will have provided it up in the corner so if I just change one of those letters for example there may be a C press Enter it's barely noticeable what he's done in actual fact so baby changed out to another color here and there you go changing much for more dramatic change there so again once you're happy with the chosen color type outside of the color rectangle and then you working on your canvas and the last section of your color options is your palettes now you can actually import them so you can add your own and create your own you can import them from elsewhere if you've got a pallet file you can actually upload it and it will save it in your pallet if you have one that you want to share you can slide to the left and you can share it you can delete it you can tap on the title that you've given it and rename it you can set it as default and then when you go to your general use of color you can see it's placed it here for you can for your convenience lots of different things you can do with only the color palettes so when you're working within a color palette if you want to eliminate one of the colors and you're not happy with it you just need to tap on it that's again not tap on it rather you need to long press on it you can delete it and you can set it you can move it around put it in a different section and there you go you can obviously do that within this section as well so when you're using the color palettes if you want to use one of the colors you just literally tap on it and it changes it to the active color you can see on the color wheel you can see it will change to whatever color you're tapping on you can also reorder your palettes if you wish to do so if you have a certain number that you use all the time you can put those at the top and then you can switch between those for whatever default you want to use of this particular moment if you have your split screen open you've got within your files a color palette you want to switch across you can just drag and crop drop it into that section and it will have added your palette to likewise you can share it that way like I say you can also share it that way as I've shown you before when you crane a new canvas you can also change your color profile within this section really useful for when you're sending it to a specific kind of printer and you want to make sure the colors are particularly accurate then you can control it that way now with the p3 color option that it gave you there I'm sorry I just go back to it then you're going to get a go back to it here so this is ideally suited if you have a display that is capable of showing this can a wide color gamut now an iPad pro like this does have the p3 color gamut it has really saturated really vibrant colors there may be other displays that don't have that in which case you know you may want to create in a different format so the next section is going to be layers now the layers are here where you've got two squares one on top of another which represents the the way that you might use layers within a piece of work so this is the first thing you need to be aware of too open and close the layers is the next function where you can add a layer it will give you a little preview of what's on each individual layer if you slide it to the right or to the left rather you can delete it if there's nothing valuable on that layer or you change your mind about it obviously you double tap tool and do anything you've done and three fingers to redo affects anything in this area too you can duplicate layers you can lock layers lots of different functions here each layer will also have a layer name which you can change so if you tap on it you can rename it just so you could perhaps understand what's on each layer if you've got a clear differentiation between different layers now any changes that you make will only affect what you're doing on that layer unless you set otherwise so you need to be aware of which layer you are actually working on and obviously it's gonna be highlighted in blue now within each layer you've got a little symbol here the default position is going to be an N if you click on it it represents normal but there's all sorts of different ways that you can blend different layers together and you really just have to experiment through these you can actually scroll through them now which is a new feature and you can quickly preview what the impact is gonna be with those different effects most the time normal is going to be fine but they're asked a specific kind of times when you need it a kind of difference alternate effect now sometimes when I'm creating a piece of work out if I want to just of create a dramatic difference sometimes it's something isn't quite sitting right I will just scroll through these to see whether it gives a more desirable effect and sometimes just by testing out and experimenting me caught with something that it's just more interesting and works better you have whether your layer is visible so you can take it or on ticket and it will it's not to say you're working on that layer there's something you need to be a careful of sometimes if you take natural layer so it's visible I do this myself I automatically think somehow but of I'm working on my way so you need to make sure if you want to work on that layer then you need to make sure it's blue and obviously day you've got the choice to make it visible or invisible now if you've made it invisible and you've got it selected and you try to do something on that layer it's going to complain you and say that you've actually got that layer hidden so you need to go back in make it visible and then you can start painting over the top of it or adjusting it in some way and you've also got a background layer now this is useful perhaps when you're starting out with a new canvas I've just removed some of these layers you can see underneath it there's quite a lot going on now on that particular piece but you can see it's it's got white background or you can remove that white background but i'ma finish the painting chances are it's got so many layers over the top you're not gonna see that background anyway but again it depends on the kind of artwork that you're creating I also showed you before briefly if you tap on it you've got all sorts of options and options menu that pops up you can rename it you can clear you can copy you can select you can do all these different things here now some of them are really useful some of them will go into a little bit more detail a little later on as well but it just gives you a general sense the kind of things that you can do with each layer so another factor on your background layer is that you can change color as well but sometimes you might just want to on take it and have a completely transparent layer so the only element you can see is what you've added now you can move your layers around press and hold so I press until it it kind of grows in size and then you can move it around you can reorder your layers that will potentially have an impact on the way that you're in which actually looks but yes you can reorder the de layers that are actually there if you want to affect multiple layers you can just quickly toggle it to the right and then it allows you to do different things you can group them together for example and you can see it's created a new group there because I toggle them together just run to that again to go different layers so if you just toggle layers to the right you can delete them all and you can also group them now you can see here on a group you can actually sort of minimize or sorry minimize the whole group together and you can have a preview within that little thumbnail you can see all the layers are actually in there and then you can sort of open out again by pressing here and you can also make all of those layers invisible all at once and so on by tapping on the group you can change things you can rename it you can flatten it you can merge down or come everything that's within that group as well but when you are grouping things together which ever the bright blue color shows up on is your primary layer so when you are toggling and you grew them together you can see here this is still going to be the primary layer within that group so anything you do within a group is going to be sometimes very useful so if you've got these all grouped together and you want to do something with that group so you can change the properties of all those elements say for example you wanted to change everything in that group you can see it's now done that so everything within that group has now been affected all the ones one thing you can do if you want to transfer a layer on to another canvas you can press and hold and drag it it's got little green plus symbol at the top of it press the gallery option go into a new canvas go on to the layers there and then you can add it as a layer so when you're working within layers if you want to lock it is one of the other functions you can do that make sure that nothing is now going to affect it so if there's something that you know you definitely don't want to accidentally change its a permanent feature of that and you don't want to do anything that might damage your or lose information on it you can just lock it in place however often I will just duplicate a layer for not sure 100% what I'm doing I will just create a duplicate version of it Anna may be ontic to save copy and then will make changes to that and if I'm not happy with that I can just delete that retake the previous version or the original and I've not affected or changed it either so as I've shown you previously before when you're on a layer if you tap them on so that layer you come up with various options so you can rename it quite straightforward the next option is select within that if you press all that it's only going to select the things that appear on that layer so that is the non transparent parts of that layer so within each layer obviously you've got bits that you've affected as you can see here in the thumbnail and then you've got a transparent bits around it so it's only selected the bit so you've got some information you can do all sorts of transform things you can paint on it you can change various aspects of it within that you can copy all the aspects that are on that layer and then you could that's now on your clipboard so you could paste it somewhere else you can fill the layer and you'll see it's whatever color you had selected air is now filled in on that layer you can tell the impact he's had because what was there before now is just completely filled in with gray you can go on the layer you can clear everything on lots of this I'm not late consider the Sun is now disappeared so if you've gone to a layer perhaps where there's not a lot of details going on so everybody got some details on it up here for God alpha lock and I want to change some properties of that you can see it's not going to change the whole canvas it's gonna change just the areas where it's got something actually to affect and if you want to turn the alpha lock off press it again and you can see it's disappeared it so you can tell if this got alpha lock on because it has like a little checkerboard effect on the thumbnail you can tell whether it's got it selected the next option along is mask so this is a little bit like the Alpha lock except that it's going to instead of paying attention to what's on the layer there it's going to pay attention to whatever is on the primary layer so now you can make changes on here and it's not going to adversely affect the actual layer itself so you can experiment you can make changes to that layer without actually changing that layer at all so you can turn that off and you can see it's not actually changed the parent layer and you could delete it like that too I'm going to open a new canvas just to demonstrate a couple of extra points so if you've got some information you've created on a canvas and you want to affect it you can create another layer you can select clipping mask and it is now attached to the layer underneath and you can try some different things out so you can color in you'll notice it won't add any extra information anything outside of in the transparent areas of the layer that it's attached to it won't affect but it also hasn't affected the actual layer itself so it's attached to this layer it is not really a layer in its own right it is and a layer that I've decided to use as a clipping mask as a way of doing things for this layer without actually changing the layer itself if can understand that point so the difference here is if I was to try and achieve the same thing with an alpha lock which is another way of achieving this so I'll go to alpha lock it is now locked that layer so I can achieve very similar now I forgot one two maybe a brush effect it's only going to change things that are actually active on that leg won't affect the transparency but it has affected that layer itself so this is perhaps a better way of changing any information on that layer or experimenting with it without actually upsetting the information on that layer now if you're using the drawing guide and you have that pre-selected that's something I'm going to explain a little while ago but if you have that pre-selected when you open your layers you will also have a drawing assist option so all that means basically is there anything you draw now is gonna snap to the conical Ridge so it's almost impossible to go diagonally it follows the actual grid that you've created so that can be really useful if you if you're creating something that is predominantly so straight lines then that could be a really useful function for you and again you can turn that off by on taking it on a particular layer and you tap on it and you want to invert it it literally inverts all the colors that are there which if you're doing something simple quite graphic is it going to be really useful obviously for a full of painting like this less useful so with also within the layers you have the next option which is reference really useful in some respects so I'm just going to give you a simplified version to see you can understand this for go to something like airbrush and just create something nice and simple so I'm just creating some shapes put on full opacity create some shapes turn this into a reference layer now when you create a layer and put it directly underneath that now the the reference layer is going to have an impact on a layer that is underneath it so if you checks like to call it out and you just drag and drop it and so there select another color drag and drop it into there and so on you keep doing that effect what you'll notice is that when you remove that reference layer you've got is the impact of having filled in on this separate layer without actually needing the reference layer to be visible which is really chemical another way of using this perhaps if you go onto the core there's a faster way and then you can just go and remove the reference layer and you've got a really nice sort of clean colored inversion without having to have the actual lines there for you so it's not something I've used myself but I could see there would be application for that so another option within your layers if you've gone to layer my list up on it you have the merge down option so literally that will take the layer and merge it down with the next layer underneath so another option similar to that is the combine down and you can see it will combine down with the layer underneath it and actually form a new group now as always explaining perhaps a little bit earlier you have here the blending options or the blend modes now if you have it set to normal then it's literally gonna be whatever you have painted on that layer eyelids about layers can appear exactly as it would normally I will experiment with these I will try different effects as I was saying before just to see what kind of works the best it also gives you the opportunity to change the opacity to on that layer so the one of the ways that I would use multiply for example for gone to normal you can see I've just pasted a layer here has a drawn element but it has a white background sometimes I want to just sort of merge the two together so one thought the effects of the lines but I want the image underneath it to show through one of the best ways of doing that I've found he's gone to multiply so you can still see the actual drawing but it's not as a whole interfering with the background it's an additional item that I'm able to add to that onto underneath layer but it ignores the white and it it's much better than using the normal kind of version but you can see there's different ways of doing that a really interesting kind of inversion of that effect can sometimes be something that looks really cool lots of things you can do experimenting with those different layers multiply I find most useful in that respect and the ones that really stand out for me are for exam poor lighting and screen so if it was to take an element or an image that has some light features I might want to share that just as a JPEG just so I can illustrate the point I've added it another canvas and I forgot on to my different layer properties now the light on the screen it preserves the light areas but it kind of ignores the dark so that's normal for God to lighten and it allows me to add the light features like I say same with screen and you can see different effects with the different features as well so you've got vivid light linear light all sorts of different ways of making a little really interesting now when it comes to outdoor layers you can actually share them now and you have different options when it comes to sharing them you can share them as a PDF which will just literally take each one of those layers and share is a kind of a page you can share it as a PNG file and animate it to gifts things like I guess I should say or animated mp4 it's not something I've used but yeah you can do now this next section is about drawing guides now if you go into the actions area here you have a toggle for drawing guide if you click that I think by default it brings up this kind of square grid now this is the default settings so yes it comes up with this 2d grid now within your drawing guides you can edit and it brings up this menu screen it's a various different things you can do here you've got a 2d grid you've got an isometric grid here you have perspective in which you can set a vanishing point and you can turn the opacity up and a thickness of those lines so you can really see them perhaps a little bit more clearly and you've got symmetry options too you can also change the color of your guidelines here at the top so if you go you'll see that more clearly we've got something like this I can really change the color of those so you can choose the color that's gonna be the most dramatic and stand out the best so if you've got a very dark canvas like this then maybe the white lines are gonna be useful if you've got a really white background me with the dark lines would be more useful for you when you're using the symmetry or the perspective you get this little circle with a little dots in the center so you can say your horizon line you can move your vanishing point anywhere you want it Soumitra have used quite a bit as well you can set your line of symmetry anywhere you want it to go you also have options here so if you're using something like the 2d grid you have the basic options of the thickness and the grid size of things like that and you also have the assister drawing which are demonstrated before so if you have the assisted drawing and you're doing lines it will snap to sort of lock with the horizontal lines and also the vertical lines now if you're using something like isometric you've got they're basically the same options you can change the opacity and thickness of the lines change the grid size and you can also have a sister drawing so any line that you do you draw on this is going to lock run parallel with the lines that are on the grid when it comes to perspective again it can change the thickness of the lines the opacity and you can have a sister drawing again so when you start drawing it'll snap to those lines where you're looking at the cemetery the options you have here have different types of symmetry so you see you've got a vertical symmetry here so anything you draw on this side is gonna reflect on to the other side you can do horizontal symmetry so anything you draw on the top will mirror onto the bottom half you've got quadrants so anything you do here will reflect here here and here and you've got radial which basically means that you know anything you do in one section is gonna repeat in all those different areas - you also have rotational symmetry if for example you start drawing something in this area and I'll just add that to this you can demonstrate that point is going to continue rotating it around so because I'm going in that direction it's gonna rotate in that direction for all parts of the symmetry I go back into my drawing guide go into the options turn that rotational symmetry off go back in there and now you can see when I draw that it mirrors it now so it's not all going in the same rotational direction it is that line becomes a line of symmetry and it reflects it so just go back through these and demonstrate these points as well you've got the assisted drawing on there so you go into your image and you can see it automatically just sort of locks your lines for those grid lines it runs parallel basically really it's impossible to do a diagonal at this point it just locks so whatever you do it's going to lock to those grips and it's the same whichever one of these you actually use if the assisted drawing is on then it will lock to those lines and I'll just demonstrate it without the assisted drawing and go in and now you can draw more freehand so another feature within the perspective drawing guide is that you can add more than one perspective so you've got one vanishing point here which is useful for in many cases but sometimes you want to add a second vanishing point so within the perspective guide all you need to do is click somewhere where you want your second vanishing point to appear and there you go you can also add a third vanishing point there so your goal the choices are one two or three vanishing points if you're not happy with one of them click on the vanishing point and delete it once you're happy with your selection you can click done and then they appear in your canvas and then you can start using them okay another really amazing feature that's been added in more recent times is the quick shake now I demonstrated it briefly before but the quick line has been a really important feature for quite a while so if you draw a line it's got before wobble to don't lift the pencil or your finger off the canvas and it should after a period of time snap to a straight line or a future circle hold it it will create a better version of the shape that goes for any of your main shapes triangle square or rectangle and it hasn't turned into a perfect version of that one way that you can do that as you can see now that I've created it and haven't done anything else yet it still gives me options to edit the shape so now I can change it into something that is more precisely what I require so if a wanted it is just the quadrilateral so it is a four-sided shape but it's irregular then it can leave a lidar can also adjust there and pull and drag it from the corners there to want it to change into a rectangle or the closest rectangles what a Drude then I can do it that way I can also pull it at different edges I want to turn into a square I can do or a polyline there I can also edit if I create a kind of the lips so I can choose between having an ellipse in which I can modify it or I can turn it into a more precise circle and that goes for pretty much all the shapes that you want to create as well sorry I meant to create a triangle and there again containing two triangle or a polyline you can see there's some little changes there because it'd been quite much of a perfectly it wants to give me the option to turn it into a four-sided shape or whereas actually it wants to turn it into a triangle so they go so once you've created your shape you've obviously got all the adjustments but you can also move it around once you're happy with it snap out of it and then it becomes a more permanent feature whilst it's still within the Edit shape you can rotate it you can manipulate it so do whatever you basically want with it really useful okay another really useful function within the app now you can add text so I'll just recap that you go to the actions go to add you can add text it'll bring it up by default here so you can write anything on here so I'm just going to add the title of this piece and here you go coz of deselects of that now it still is a layer there's actually a text layer and the reason that all the the way that you can identify that is that it has like a capital A it shows it is an adjustable text box if you want to turn it into an image and you no longer want to edit this anymore then you can tap on it and you can rasterize it it now is an image so I can do all the things that I've wanted to perhaps with an image at different times I can change it with a selector and do different things with it I can do stores that can do all those kind of things I would normally do with an image layer but if I want to continue editing as a text and change the wording and different features of it then I don't want to rasterize it and I just want to keep it as the text option another reason why I might not want to rasterize it is because if that is a text box I can continue to increase it and it is a vector which means that you have incredibly crisp outlines no matter how much you increase it or decrease it it's never going to I can find the edge of it again there you go it's never going to become pixelate that it is a vector which means it's super crisp and it will always remain that way like I was just demonstrating if I click on the box and rasterize it it's now great because I can edit it as an image but that does mean that if now i zoom in I'll demonstrate this point it's becoming more pixelated on the edges it's not a vector by any means so if you've had a small version of it and now you're blowing it up you'll start to see that you're losing the edge definition of that which is you know in many cases that will be less of a problem I'm losing the text now by changing it like that there you go if you want to go back into it you can tap on as long as you're on the layer and you tap on the actual text itself it'll come up here another way of accessing it here's the tap on it and go edit text so obviously you can change what it actually says to cook in it you can change what it actually says but also you can edit the style now one of the most basic things that you can do is change color you can change it to any particular color that you're going to think it's going to stand out and then you don't other things you can do you can play around with different fonts change the style of the change the size of it to a certain extent now it changes the size but because the box is limited in size it's going to start doing strange things so if you want to increase the size of the box and then it allows you to increase the size but it's it's going to be restricted by the box size so you can continue to adjust the box and it gives you more options for increasing the size without it's of rearranging the letters and stacking them you can also play around with settings like kerning which obviously separates the layers out tracking which seems to be very similar to kerning really leading baseline so whether it's you know above or below and obviously the opacity to so you can change it so it's all capitals you can underline it you can just give the outline of that you can put it towards the left align it to the right center-aligned it or have evenly spread outward just like you would with kind of Word document options too so you can import a fonts if you have it contained in your files somewhere really really useful and if you want to go back to editing what it actually says you can go on this and it brings you back ups for the keyboard if you want to get back out for the keyboard click that and you're back in canvas again so remember if you click on here you can edit the text obviously you can move your text around puts it wherever you like change the size of the box like I say really useful now the next section within procreate is the animation section now this is a really big update I've actually created a video specific to this feature so if he wants to check through my videos and playlists you will find a tutorial where I've shown how I've created this new intro for my actual channel but a really amazing new addition to protract so although that other video does give you a rundown of all the options within the animation I'll just give you a brief overview here as well just so you can get an idea so if you started off with another canvas and I will do this now just to demonstrate the point and you wanted to start a new animation you can go to your canvas settings you can go to animation assist now if you start drawing something you can add a frame you'll notice that it gives you a slightly faded out version so you can now keep adding new frames it allows you to see what was drawn before now this is the kind of default setting it allows you to do this without changing anything else you can get started straight away keep drawing the next frame like this now one thing you'll notice is that I keep adding frames and as I do that it shows you they can history almost like a ghost that out version of what I've been drawing but it has a limit and it only shows you that a few of the strokes that I've done most recently and then slowly but surely it starts to lose some of those as you go along so once you've created a certain number of frames and you you know you want to see exactly what you've got you want to preview you can press play and you can start to see the little animation that you have actually created there are different settings here you can see it as a one-shot and it will just play through it once let's do it from the beginning again you can see that or you can have it so it loops so it keeps replaying it from the beginning again or you can have it so ping pongs backwards and forwards between it so starts again yes what go to the end and then it'll go backwards so I also was showing you a minute ago so you can see I kind of go stood out versions you can see some of the frames behind the trail you can limit that so you can only see the last couple or you can have up to twelve is the maximum different skins it's actually called so you can see the previous sort of layers that you've done you can adjust the frames per second so you can have it as a maximum of 60 and that's just gonna appear smoother but it's also gonna play it much more quickly you can change the opacity of the skin so you can have them on full opacity so they're almost as dark and then you even the new ones you're adding or almost or the older ones rather further back in the chain are almost the same color or you can set it the opacity to be far less you can really see then the most recent things that you've just done now you can have it so that you can have a different color frames you can see what goes before what's coming afterwards depending on the red and the blue and the green rather so you can see that so their red is what's already been and the green is what's gonna happen next or you can have the the primary frame blended so you don't really see it and you still get the color codes on this one if the primary thing is being still you don't get the main things showing there turn off the color like so if you want to add a frame you just keep adding a frame that way these are blank frames obviously that I'm adding then but if you've got something that you've done earlier on now if I go back to the beginning deletes all of those go to my setting animation assist if I've drawn something on here now want to duplicate that layer I can press and hold and now we've got two layers that are exactly the same so now I could add another feature so that duplicate the fray I just keep adding to that now rather than having to draw the whole thing again I could keep duplicating the throne so it adds all the information from the previous frame but it just keeps adding new information and then it can play those like that so once you've created something you're quite happy with you can go on to the actions you can go on to share you can share it as a PDF so each of those layers or frames because it actually uses the the frames and presents them as layers here so again you can go through them and select them and modify them as a layer but you can also go through them here and modify them you can share them as a PDF and it will share them each one of those layers is the separated image within a document at PDF document you can share it as a file you can share it as an animated files or form as well another aspect of your actual frames that you can use is that where you're on a selected frame you can actually do some various different things with it so you've got an option if you click on it on the frame at the beginning or the end of your animation sequence you have the option of making the last frame a foreground now I wanted to do that because then anything that goes on is going to sit underneath this particular part you can see here a little preview a little thumbnail of what I'm talking about so wanted that to appear constantly because otherwise when I play it you can see it doesn't appear it would only appear at the end so I want it to appear permanently throughout so I set it's a foreground and you can see it remains there constantly and I could do things that would affect different parts and it would go underneath but this would always stay on top now that's the same at the other end of the spectrum I wanted something here and I wanted that to remain as a background now the processor went through here is that had something that I was revealing in a raising step by step so I set this underneath images a background like that if I didn't do that and it was just one of the frames they need save for a moment and you wouldn't save the rest of it you can see all the different bits that been deleting that it only actually makes sense when I have that initial frame as a background feature now you can see it's raising and revealing that on Danelle under nice light for each individual frame if you tap on it you have the option of deleting it to placate Singh and having it hold for a number of frames so you can have it to not hold at all you can have it and you can see it's just created a load of extra ones there you can have it holding for as long or as short as you want but obviously it's gonna it's basically a duplication okay this next section is about selections and you can use the different selection tools to modify and adjust specific areas within your layout or your painting so tap on it first of all it brings up these options the first option here that we're going to deal with is automatic now this is a little bit like the magic wand tool within procreate so you can tap on it and you can start to select as much or as little of the layer properties as you want now you can see the slider option I was just doing there so if I tap on it here it does actually remember that the area that you selected previous but on first starting out you'll get something like this and you can slide it left or right to select or deselect as much as you'd want like this you can go back to hardly any selection like this and then if you wanted to select another area it's going to pretty much remember the kind of the threshold basis that you've just selected that so you can then use that basis to select other areas too now this is a variety pretty much fully rendered painting with lots of texture and different sort of values which is why you're gonna get a much more grainy cut type of selection here it's not going to be very precise now if you had something that was a bit a little bit more cartoony with flatter colors then it's going to be really quite intelligent I've been able to pick out those different areas for you and you can do that once you click out of it you've kind of committed to it you can then go to another tool and if I wanted to add a specific color now it would only add it into the area that I've selected for example I could also do something like transforming it could take that particular texture that was within that area that I've selected and move it somewhere else all sorts of different things that you could do with it okay so we'll go to another option we've got freehand so literally as it suggests you can start somewhere so if I wanted to just like just this particular point there's my starting point now I can draw it freehand but you might end up with a little bit of a wobbly edge go to the end and each selects adjust that so I could do exactly the same as what I did before so I could move it around change position change colors whatever I wanted to do to that selected area again you could paint just within that section literally loads of things you could do now if you weren't happy with what you've just done and it was too wobbly well you can go to that area if you know you've got a straight line you can just go to the end of that line and it will do a better version of it arguably you can keep tapping it and every time you keep tapping gear it just creates a straight line from the last point that you left off so the next point and you can actually undo them by increments that way too you can have a rectangular form of selecting again all the same kind of principles you can have an ellipse again you can do all the same things now remember this is only affecting the things that are selected on the selected layer another thing you can do is if you have say freehand or whatever you've selected it's on automatically an ad so you can do this multiple times then you can go to your brush and you can affect all of those which could be really useful or you can come in to remove and you can see now you're selecting everything but that area so it's the opposite effect another way of doing that perhaps is that once you've made your selection let's just say you've created a shape there and you think oh no actually it's the opposite way around well you've got an invert so currently you've got that area that's selected and it will only change that area or if you press some hold you can bring it back up you can go to invert and now and everything bought that area so if you've got an area there you can copy and paste it and now we've got all the properties that were on that selected area copy and pasted as another layer another really useful thing you can do is to feather so if you've created a selection so I'll just create an ellipse and you go on a feather and you can change the amount that you want to actually feather on that ellipse let's just say you selected that amount go to your brush and you can see is actually feathered at the edges so rather than having a hard line around your selection is actually feathered and blended out could be really useful that for you another option is to do that and you can clear all your selections if you've got a selection here you can save/load yeah and it's saved it and if you've got some of the ones that you've you've already saved you can actually load them into your image as well one of the things that you can do to really drive home how clearly you've selected something old it's not very visible perhaps especially on camera at this point but whilst you've got something selected you can just improve the visibility here you go into the actions go into preferences go down to the bottom you've got a slider which is selection mask visibility so you could really increase that to really make it much clearer perhaps you can have a subtly can have it really overly dramatic there perhaps okay the next thing along this here along the interface is the transform tool really useful lots of things you can do with that if you click on it you can see it's automatically so I said everything on that particular layer now you can freeform that so that means that you can drag it from your corner perhaps I've gone to a different image you'll see this more clearly so another really important feature that you'll find on your workflow along here is your transform tool now by default when you click on that is gonna select everything within that layer so it will select the entire frame you can actually move your selected area if you're on the freeform which is the first of the options here so you can press a hold and drag it from the corners you can press it pull it from the sides do all sorts of things with the free-flow you can choose to have it more uniform which means that it's locked locks this of proportions together there so you can't distort it you can only increase the size you can't drag it in from the sides without affecting all of the proportions of it you can have it on the distort specifically you can really exaggerate that if you can see that selection there you go can you start it that way and you can also warp which means that you get more of a kind of curved distortion really and you can really warp things you can actually turn things and invert them fold them back on themselves like that which could be really useful for certain kinds of effects less so for this now if using different ones of these you have settings here too so you've got the free fall you've got magnetic which basically means that it's gonna lock as always showing you on the uniform one the proportions together now if you turn the magnetic off then you're gonna find that you can sort of distort it in all the different ways within the free-foam you can flip horizontal you can flip vertically you can rotate it you can fit the screen if it isn't already and you can reset things to within the bilinear which is a slightly more advanced option you can choose these there it seems to be set to bilinear but you can change these if you really want to know you can read up on these but it's a little bit more of a complicated thing that you don't really need to know for the general use so once you've got an area selected you can obviously move it around you can tweak you can do all sorts of different things with it you can do this with your fingers you can do this with your Apple pencil however you want to actually use it another option you have within distort this you can do it like this so it distorts in other ways as well another thing you might want to do within the warp is add an advanced mesh and that Allah enables you to pull from different areas and really just control how you distorting it could be really useful okay another section that you have along here is your adjustment now there's quite a lot within here and so really straightforward stuff and then other things that are more complex you've got your opacity at the top really straightforward you can just whizz up and down the opacity of what's on that layer you've got a Gaussian blur blur the akava see got a slide over the top so you can change the percentage of it you can reset it along here you can cancel it you can undo whatever you've got a motion blur which sort of gives it more of a sense of things moving and whizzing it and actually moving basically you also have perspective blur and you can set where you want that blur to actually have come from and then it is almost seems to sort of blur almost like it's coming from that area now that could be really useful if you create in the sense that there's something moving in and out of frame so there's a vehicle coming in a specific direction and you want to create a sense of movement then that could be really good you can actually change the direction of it to all sorts of things you can do to really control specifics of adjustments here so you can see you've got a dial or you can change where the blur is actually appearing so I'll just cancel out though you've got a sharpen option so you can really show off in some details it's not really making any effect on here but there might be situations where you want to just sharpen up some of the information that you've got yeah it doesn't make a great other difference here so maybe if you zoom in finds something where you can see it a little bit more and then we can sharpen it it's arguable a little bit of difference it does makes it slightly just ever so slightly grainy or an effort to make it sharper so we'll cancel that will reset it and cancel so we can add noise to it can get grainy and grania again on the slider counsellor another great option perhaps more useful than those I would perhaps suggest or some of those is the liquify option nois is a lot more complicated compared to those others we have a whole different menu of distort options on here so we'll start with the first one we've got a push option you can change the size of the brush the pressure the distortion and the momentum now the size of the brush is fairly obvious and you can start to just push details around quite easily with that now if you change the pressure it means that you have to press on a bit more to get an effect you can just do it lightly or you can press on more and it does a drop more dramatic thing so you can see there's a bigger contrast a I mean you can tell how hard I'm pressing with it but it does make a bigger difference so I'll just go to that again try and exaggerate that point so the pressures way up and pressing lightly now and it's making a little just when press one more and it makes a bigger adjustment you can change how much you actually distorts things you can see well hope you can see it's kind of rippling it and going in almost every direction you can change the momentum so if I start it like this it will kind of continue up the piece I can kind of flick it and it continues it has literally momentum to it so it doesn't just stop there it will carry on going and you can see it's almost like liquid it carries on moving so although I've stopped it here it carries on all the way up there so it has a momentum to it literally as it says I'll just reset all of that so they're the ones that apply for that now you've got another option here it has all the same features there but when it's the liquify here you can see it is twisting it around you press and hold it it continues to twist it so reset it so you've got 12 right and this does the opposite direction 12 left reset it you've got a pinch option so if you want to make something smaller now it's on a different layer that but if I want to take that area make it smaller pinch it in you can do that if you want expand you can do exactly the opposite I've got my momentum on now so that's why it's continuing even after I've lifted off but fit so the momentum way off you can see it will stops immediately and I can pinch in and undo that to turn the momentum up you can see it carries on doing it even when I've lifted my Apple pencil off so the momentum can be useful but it's going to be a slightly less precise which might be the effect you actually want to go for just depends we've got crystals so you can see it's distorting getting a much more kind of spiky granule away you've got edges and which is quite useful if you just want to sort of pinch it in and you can see it's starting to create a line there almost so you can reconstruct so if you've done something for example where you've really pinched in large areas like this and you want to keep the overall effects but the some bits that you're not happy with you want to start reconstructing it as it was so you can use that to just kind of push back on specific areas put it back to as it was without affecting all of the adjustments that you've made or you can just do the full thing and reset it now if you've created something like this and you want to change how much you're going to adjust it by you can also use this sliding scale of percentage to and last of all like I said you can reset it everything goes back to normal some really good options within liquify a new option is clone now you can move this around to find an area that you want to actually clone you can change the brush size you can change the strength you can even change the brush type so if it wants us to go for our brush change the precise turn the strength up to max I can then move this around so anything that's selected here now is going to clone put into a different area so I could turn the strength of that down so I can get that bottom much paler version actually I can see it there I'll turn it up more you can see it bit better then like that turn the size of the brush up you've got an area I mean it only gives you the kind of center point for where you selecting doesn't really demonstrate the brush size but it gives you an idea of where the center of your cloning is gonna be taken from and you can see it is taken from that area and cloned it down here really useful another way to use the the clone or perhaps a really efficient way of using the clone is just to use it two handed so you can put it there clone it there move it so rather than using your Apple pencil all the time you can actually be sort of multi gestured with this also within your adjustments you've got your color adjustments you've got hue saturation and brightness and so obviously I've got this layer selected so now it's going to start adjusting all of those things so I can change the general hue I can change the saturation or put down and I can change the brightness up and down to now if I don't want to do any of those I can just reset it so I'll show you those again like that click on the screen I can reset but if I wanted to keep those adjustments then I just click on that and it's kept those adjustments we also have color balance and we can slide it more in the area of red or more to cyan or magenta again all of those things you can also change those colors within different aspects of your painting so you can affect the shadows the mid-tones or the highlights and is going to predominantly affect different areas of your picture so you might have a specific thing that you want to change and you can control it that way again if you want to reset it click the image and reset or press that and it will commit all of those changes in terms of your curves you've got a graph here you can change all of these you can change specific areas the colors for example again whenever you've made up some changes you can click there to select it or you can click the screen and reset everything there also is a recolor option see if you click on here and you've got a color selected at the top you can have a little cursor here that you can move around and it's going to take that color and recall a specific parts of your image with the color selected up there so if I change that to a red start to move this around change that to a red come to my recolor you can see it's flooded to a greater or lesser extent which you can control here and I should have a cursor somewhere which have lost now but I can do it by just tapping on a specific area that I'd like to recolor anyway or I can move that cursor around and it will kind of automatically select that area and very similar areas to what can keep adding it like that for not happy with it cancel it and so on so the last section that I'm going to explain is the action section so there's all sorts of things that you can add or change along here in the actions so along here you've got the add you can insert a file you can insert a photo you can take a photo which will actually use your camera you can add text which I explained before really useful you can do your cuts your copy and your copy canvas so so these two you can do with the gestures before I showed you with our three fingers but you can copy the whole canvas and then you can paste the whole canvas somewhere else to within the canvas so you have different settings a relatively new feature is the crop and resize so you can reshape your entire canvass if you don't want some of the details on here anymore and you want to reshape your canvass then you can do that you can rotate your canvas you can change the proportions if you lock it like that it's not going to distort it and you can just change the overall size of it or you can distort it and just change one aspect of it too and obviously you can reset you can re sample the canvas too now depending on what you do there if you set that to be something really quite big and you've lots on the two together it will tell you at the top how many layers you can click on that I mean you can see there's 11 layers available I don't really want to do that at this particular moment in time so I'll just leave as it is another thing you can do along here is use your animation assist which again I showed you earlier and it turns on this feature you can use your drawing guide and you can edit your drawing guide use all the settings that I showed you earlier you can flip canvas horizontally sometimes they use this and its really useful just to get a fresh view on the image that you creating if you're trying to create your overall effect you're not quite sure if it's working flipping it horizontally can give you a fresh perspective on that it can be really really useful you can have a flip it vertically and you can also game your canvas information here now this is really useful you can see information about the canvas you can actually digitally sign it here which is an interesting feature for example you've got your dimensions here that tell you your dpi if physical sort of height and width your pixel dimensions you go onto your layers it tells you how many layers you have available how many you've used and the maximum number of layers that are available it also gives you some more information here gives you information about your color profile your video settings and your statistics useful information definitely when you want to share option you can share your image or your file as different formats you can share it as a procreate and it will export it you can cancel it you can share it as a Photoshop document a PDF a JPEG or PNG and a tiff and you can share your layers so we'll share them as separated elements rather than just all image you can share as a PDF document and someone can look through those as separate pages you can share it as a PNG file again that will be all separate files you can share it as an animated format so I used to do that gives you a preview you can change the number of frames now obviously this is not intended as an animation so that's why it looks very strange but it does give you a preview anyway now in your video settings so you can watch your time lapse replay and it will take you back to the beginning and you can whizz through that manually all overrate details all the weights at the very end of that you can choose not to have a time-lapse recording because it does take space up on your actual device on your iPad so you can choose to have it on or off this your choice and then you can also export your time-lapse video so you can have it either 30-second really condensed version or the full length or you can cancel it within your preference we've covered this basically before but you've got your lights and your dark interface the rights or the left hand for these details you know a brush brush cursor which should show up on here you can't see it very clearly on this example of a change it's white perhaps you can see there is a black line around your cursor now so you can see where the very edge of your brush is going to be and control it more accurately perhaps you can project your canvas onto another screen so you can use this a bit like a graphics tablet and the image on your screen will not have any of the interface showing you can connect a third-party stylus not going to do that Apple pencil is by far and away the best stylus that you could use with these types of iPad you can edit your pressure curve which I explained before you can change your gesture controls set them exactly as you want them and these two I've also select demonstrated in earlier parts of the guide as well so you've got your help options here you can restore purchases you can do your advanced settings that go on within the iPad so also within here you can learn to procreate actually sends you to some actual videos from the procreate team you can contact customer support you can and create portfolio online and you can leave a review so all these all are potential really useful sections too so at the beginning of a canvass if you're creating a custom canvas you can actually change some of the settings here for example a time lop setting you can't do this on the default ones or if you're in the middle of a project you cannot adjust these anymore but at the beginning if you create something a custom canvas you can actually change the quality of the video recording to okay so that pretty much is the the full guide that I've got to share with you at this time whenever those new features added I do generally do update videos if there's any questions you've got please leave comments or questions down in the comments look through my other playlists follow my tutorials subscribe and I'll catch you back here again see you later you

Channel: James Julier Art Tutorials

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Length: 118min 58sec (7138 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 26 2019