10 Procreate tips I wish I knew as a beginner

Dive into 10 hidden, underrated and obscure Procreate tips I wish I knew as a beginner.
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[@ty-zz9ic]

To recolor (the last tip in this video) there’s another way too. I use it ALL the time. You can go to the third menu on the top row (the S shaped one) and select automatic select and select the area you want to recolor. You can even copy that into a new layer and work with it as much as you like and then completely delete it if you don’t like it, blend it, lower its opacity etc. It’s way easier than the quick menu in my opinion.

[@jaywalkerpictures]

Ohh, that’s an interesting approach. Thanks for sharing!

[@onecrafternoon7046]

Dynamic brush scaling and Recolor are GAME CHANGERS ! I've been annoyed by those two aspects on a project I'm working on and this will make my workflow so much better ! Thank you !

[@jaywalkerpictures]

I’m glad it helped!

[@Pkour11]

It's for fine detail work wrinkles shadows

[@JMulvy]

Another tip: for fine-tuning slider and handle amounts (like in brushes, tolerance, select and move, or liquify, etc.) while holding your pencil on the screen, move the pencil away from the handle or slider in a 90° angle and the further away you move it from the interface element, the slower the amount will increase or decrease.

[@hippolytanine2852]

how do i postrize in procreate the image please

[@JMulvy]

@@hippolytanine2852 I don't know what that is. Do you mean posterize? The only way I know how to do that is in Photoshop because it is a built in filter Adobe owns. Procreate does have gradient maps under the effects menu (magic wand). You can duplicate an existing map, then tap the gradient itself at the bottom of the screen and set your own colors and tones. It will then use the value (intensity of dark vs light) in the selected layer (so if you want to do the whole image you need to duplicate the canvas into it's own layer) and use the colors in the gradient map. Hope that helps!

[@cxoxo8247]

That trick for more layers is actually genius.

[@mrlego6196]

Very well explained at an optimum speed, thank you 👏🙏

[@juergenwarner7009]

Dynamic brush size was the best tip for me!

[@ladyx8469]

Dynamic brush scaling.. thank u! I feel like it’s gonna take my sketches to the next level. More intuitive than resizing..

[@jaywalkerpictures]

Give it a try!

[@JMulvy]

@@jaywalkerpictures I just starting using this myself and it feels so much more intuitive for my work flow!

[@Green-bunny1_1]

I probably would use it but i have a problem of zooming In to much 😭

[@mrtonyp2463]

Thank you!! Your explanation of dynamic brush scaling was awesome. I knew what it did but never understood its relevance.

[@jaywalkerpictures]

Yeah at first it seemed useless but once u try in practice it’s very handy :)

[@lefrax762]

The copy layer trick can itself be used to replace the "merge all layer" you didn't find in your previous trick. Nice tips BTW!

[@vaneesssaR95]

Woooow the dynamic brush scaling was a life savour! I found it extremely annoying that it would always change size! Amazing video! Thank you😊

[@jaywalkerpictures]

Happy to help thanks for watching ☺️

[@HalfWarrior]

Thanks Jay! The dynamic brush scaling is awesome; I didn’t know about that one!

[@jaywalkerpictures]

Yeah it is super obscure & underrated, thanks for watching!

[@LeLouisLafontaine]

Really solid tips, especially the dynamic brush one !

[@jaywalkerpictures]

Glad it was helpful!

[@MrRushepoo]

thank you. very helpful info.

[@HermanvanBoeijen]

Great tips! There’s yet *another* way to recolor, and that’s by dropping the color swatch somewhere and then holding the pen somewhere, then drag sideways to adjust the amount of tolerance.

[@geraldnayoan5875]

Thank you 🙏 for the recolor option! Wow lol did not know about this very helpful option 🙂

[@jaywalkerpictures]

Glad it was helpful!

[@crypt0w1tch]

Omg! I didn’t know that’s what Dynamic Brush Scaling was for and I’ve been wanting that forever! It’s incredible how much is hiding in Procreate no matter how much you use it.

[@kaihoward7026]

Wow that Dynamic Brush and Recolour will change a lot for the future, I thank you humbly for that. As I was watching I realized you didn’t use the group flatten or adjustment on a group layer. What you can do is put everything in a group, click on the group layer and press adjustment and it will adjust everything in the group. To add that you can swipe right on a layer and select it (unlike the select option for the canvas but select the layer itself) from here you can select multiple layers and you have two options, delete all the selected layers or group them. If you group them then you can flatten the group just like merging them all together. However don’t get carried away with this. If you use blending modes and merge two layers with separate blending modes, then you will lose all but one of the selected blending modes, really ruining your layer. You should only merge layers of the same blending mode Also Instead of pressing gallery to rotate the canvas … you could … just … rotate the canvas by pinching and turning it with your fingers in the drawing 😅

[@jaywalkerpictures]

Thank u for the tips , I still have a lot to learn too!

[@howardsend6589]

Tip 5 a game changer. Thanks so much.

[@Lightlydifferent]

If you swipe left and select all layers you can merge them at once 🙂

[@kennethhymes9734]

The merge hack irresistibly reminds me of "ping-ponging" audio tracks in the extremely old days of multitrack tape. The exact same tradeoffs in terms of committing to decisions/undoability, except of course there is no perceptible degradation of the merged result, at least to my eye. Interesting to me how certain procedural aspects of creativity can persist across media, tools and genres.

[@maximeenes3105]

This is so helpful thank you very much

[@jaywalkerpictures]

Thank you for watching

[@renep5008]

Yet more hidden tips to be learned… wow, Thanks!

[@geauxracerx]

You don’t have to back out to the gallery to rotate the canvas. You can do it with two fingers just like or while you are zooming/scrolling

[@spitNsawdust]

OMG! You sir are a live saver! Instant sub! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@jaywalkerpictures]

Thanks for subbing!

[@jackspring7709]

Brilliant!

[@mr.d2022]

That preset slider is great. Didnt know that one

[@FathansyahMahmuda]

Another tips for easier switch between brush, smudge and eraser. 1. Double tap your apple pen to change between brush and the eraser. 2. Turn on the gesture touch on the smudge, so every time you smudge the screen you’ll smudge your drawing carefull This help me a lot to faster switching between thoose tools

[@carolinedenaro866]

Great Info, THANKS! 💚💙💜

[@denniadale9549]

When you copy canvas, you can paste immediately and it will be on a new layer automatically. No need to have one ready which it won’t copy to anyway.

[@gavinkaufmanworld]

Great video and tips - thanks 😁

[@jaywalkerpictures]

Thanks for watching!

[@kennethhymes9734]

extremely useful

[@mccartneyr4052]

Most excellent

[@L0ve365Beauty]

5:56 I like that dynamic brush

[@marcgoodrich]

Procreate is one of my favorite programs makes drawing so much fun

[@xo3115]

Happy I’m not the only left handed one to toggle right hand interface on lol

[@starcrysis23]

I’m right handed and use left interface. That way I can use my left hand to make adjustments while I draw with my right.

[@jaywalkerpictures]

Left handers ftw!

[@RM-jg1cq]

@@jaywalkerpictures until you have to write on a white board, or with a pen that the ink takes a while to dry! lol but great video! it is crazy how at the surface procreate is so simple then you figure out its super powerful but everything is 2+ levels deep and you just need to know its there lol

[@susans2991]

Thanks!

[@jaywalkerpictures]

No problem!

[@adix64]

Thank you!

[@jaywalkerpictures]

You're welcome!

[@antonio.clark.art01]

Very cool tips indeed

[@jaywalkerpictures]

Glad you think so!

[@awkwardkestral3909]

You can select a group to merge all at once. Just put everything you want merged into a group together, then flatten the whole group in the layers menu.

[@shh7600]

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[@DanBeauleArt]

Love the tips. 🎉. Especially the private layers. Instead of merging all the layers use the copy canvas under the wrench, add… paste in new layer.

[@barbclark69]

Thank you for this. I think I nave about 50 hours of playing with Procreate ahead of me before I understand all these. But it's good to have this to refer to when I"m ready.

[@jaywalkerpictures]

Thank you for watching 😊

[@bubzzydraws]

Isn’t the flipping canvas horizontally under the wrench in the canvas option?😅

[@DreamPathStudia]

thank you

[@jaywalkerpictures]

You're welcome

[@dynastyarts2535]

bro, I don’t subscribe or comment ever but you deserved it!!!!!!!! ❤

[@jaywalkerpictures]

Thank you!

[@starcrysis23]

I feel like people would abuse the private layer feature to trace and you wouldn’t see it in the timelapse

[@CatNact]

So many artist do this. Even with non digital media. You can play with the contrast and colors to make pre drawn outlines invisible on recorded media.

[@artbynieceykinz]

tracing is still art.

[@Moma_spam2]

​@@artbynieceykinzkeep convincing yourself 😬

[@EchoJ]

Tracing has been used by both art students and professionals for hundreds of years. Some of y’all really need to get off this “tracing is cheating” train. If it’s utilized in art *theft* then it’s understandable (and expected) to frown upon it, but tracing as a learning tool or even compositional aid has been around and acceptable a lot longer than Procreate’s hidden layer. This ignorance of the practice’s historical roots is why I guess colleges still insist on making art students sit through _Art History 100_ but clearly, some of us skipped classes…👀🫣😅

[@MrSucc-fp7rt]

@@Moma_spam2tracing I believe is a tool for beginners, so they can understand how to draw a certain character per say. That’s how I started and now I can just draw it on my own, haven’t traced since may of last year on my phone lol

I was looking for a left handed artist who uses Procreate... and here you are.

[@maijakalnina5363]

15:52 10 last thing (i need if recoloring end stuff cool feature}

[@fivewoolyfive5280]

Thanks for this. 😀

[@jaywalkerpictures]

No problem 😊

[@AussieFiggy]

I’m confused by what you said about brush size being 10% of the canvas size, wouldn’t that mean at 100% it would fill the screen? I always thought it was dependent on the brush settings. Some brushes will fill the canvas, others not so much, and it’s also made more complex by the pressure settings in the brush studio. Really helpful video! I just think the brush sizes is a little more complex than just being a percentage of the canvas.

[@jaywalkerpictures]

I was going off what was stated in the procreate handbook but you are right, the individual brush settings are a factor too - I might have to revisit this in a future video

[@nellyssweettreats3113]

Can you please explain what alpha lock is?

[@jaywalkerpictures]

When locked you can only paint within the boundaries of any existing paint that has been applied to that layer. Hope that makes sense :)

[@nellyssweettreats3113]

@@jaywalkerpicturesyes thank you.

[@Delorez]

what kind of tablet is used in the video?

[@jaywalkerpictures]

iPad Pro 12.9 2021

[@21Sweetkiss21]

Is the ipad 9 good for procreate?

[@chorizojoe8282]

It’s good enough! I have a friend who has it and she loves it.

[@blueberrymushroom1881]

what ipad do u use?

[@jaywalkerpictures]

iPad Pro 12.9in 2021 model

[@ashjanmoh1212]

Is this the 11" iPad Pro?

[@jaywalkerpictures]

12.9inch

[@theamazingsparky1711]

What size iPad is this?

[@jaywalkerpictures]

iPad Pro 12.9 inch 2021

[@Toruloops]

Ipad model?

[@jaywalkerpictures]

2021 iPad Pro 12.9 inch

[@lakshmanankomathmanalath]

🙂👍🏾

[@AwesomeAxolotlt]

Dynamic brush scaling off makes no sense to me. Procreate's % size is not calculate based on the canvas, but the min and max size defined in the brush settings, which in turn relate to the used tip form.

[@theender6449]

The private layer itts gonna safe all of us that use others pples work as reference or inspiration while learning and you be pround of ur drawing( DOSENT LOOK LIKE THE INSPIRATION OR AS A COPY) and then someone be like that isnt original let me see the video and then you show them and just bc you coppied 1 circle they say its coppy ( They dont even draw a stick man)

[@doaflamingo3713]

the copy canvas 'feature' is the reason why procreate will never work for me. applying adjustments to multiple layers without merging is fundamental in digital painting

[@user-nb9zw4lk3e]

I have a maximum do 266 layers😮😮😮

[@jaywalkerpictures]

The amount of layers is affected by dpi and canvas size so be careful u may have a small canvas or low dpi image

[@himadribarman8212]

Hey, love your videos. I am from India. So basically I doing my studies and all, and side by side I also doing digital drawings. In my current state I can’t buy your brushes but I will be really happy if you send me those coz I really wanna try those brushes. Pls if you find these comment sent me those 🥺. And one day I will pay you back for sure. Thank you for your time love you.

[@lizquenlizquen5314]

Hi. I noticed that each time I use warp and distort features, the images become blurry. Any idea how to prevent this? Thnx!

[@jaywalkerpictures]

Sorry I don't think you can, naturally when you alter the image using those features you will loose some resolution

[@TinyFlyThing]

For the LayerLimit "Hack": Instead of copying the file and merging all the layers by hand, just export a jpg or something similar (check file compression) and then import it again as a new file and you save yourself the time. Also it flattens all the layerstyles (which could be a problem when you merge single layers only a few at a time)

[@originalkingdomhearts]

I have this issue where all my pens are snapping and changing shape instead of being like a normal pencil. idk why it's doing it.

[@TMPreRaff]

Left-handed... Good man!

[@jaywalkerpictures]

Lefties ftw!

[@LeeroyGoldmane]

My iPad has 134 layers like holy shit

[@lemonbemon27]

procreate DOES have adjustment layers…? see the letter on each layer?? make a new layer, make the whole layer one color, and press the letter and experiment with different options. make sure this layer is above all your artwork so you can see the change.

[@jaywalkerpictures]

AFAIK, those aren’t adjustment layers they’re blend modes (multiply screen overlay etc)

[@ChromisPasqueflowerBowerbird]

1.) Just use infinite painter

[@Painroses]

if y'all just started reading the user manual you'll easily find all the features, tips and tricks of the product you buy 🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂🙃

[@casswashwash1070]

KZbin is much easier

[@casswashwash1070]

Reading text can be difficult for visual learners

[@Painroses]

@@casswashwash1070 I know, but the user manual has images and inputs to help people understand how to do things, and mine was just a little sarcastic comment anyway 😁

[@elijahmassey9290]

😣 'PromoSM'