Master Procreate: Produce High-Quality Canvases with Ease

[@benjamincroftartwork]

So awesome to see the Few & Far shoutout! By far the best company to print with. Another great video bro. As someone that made a lot of illustrations back in the day with low quality settings, it’s a good thing to know for all beginners!

[@RockettDesign]

Yeah bro Few & Far are legendary, best place to print! Thanks for all the kind words brother 🙏🏻

[@013Jenova]

Thank you very much for your help!!❤

[@RockettDesign]

You are very welcome 🙏🏻

[@karennorthey3328]

So helpful thank you !

[@RockettDesign]

My pleasure, I’m glad it helped 🙂

[@chatsilla6569]

MAN I LOVE YOU TYSM

[@RockettDesign]

You’re welcome, glad it helped!

[@johnnnyfoley]

Thanks for this video mate, I found it really helpful. 🙏

[@RockettDesign]

Awesome, so good to hear!

[@DaveS-Ace]

Subbed, bloody excellent video. Thanks dude 🖤

[@RockettDesign]

Thanks so much, I appreciate it and glad the video helped!

[@anntan7449]

I don’t have the Display P3 option, which color profile would be best in this case? Thank you very much!!

[@RockettDesign]

Stick with sRGB, it'll give you more vibrant colours and a better user experience.

[@anntan7449]

@@RockettDesign thank you!!! Your video was very helpful.

[@stacy1458]

Thanks a bunch!

[@RockettDesign]

No worries!

[@hanf71]

Thanks for the vid! I’m creating a1 size file. I’m setting dpi at 260. Do you think this will still print ok? Also my colours are dull. Any suggestions? Thanks so much keep up the good work

[@RockettDesign]

Hey, yeah it’s hard to say but it should print well, general rule would be 300 is the highest quality but 260 is close enough that you should still see really nice quality in the piece, as long as you’re not going too big with the print and keep it under A3 size and you should be fine, happy creating!

[@m.j.mcintear793]

Words are something traditional pen paper artist never really had to use. Now it’s A4 A this A that Dpi etc. like another language. Would love to learn all this but is near impossible because it’s so complex

[@RockettDesign]

I grew up in a world of both and still use both traditional methods and digital methods in my artwork, it can be a lot to take in, but its worth it depending on the outcomes you want.

[@Mikiyakennedy]

Thank you for this vid, it helped so much my post and videos on instagram and titok have been such bad quailty and now i know how to fix it :)

[@RockettDesign]

Hey, that’s so great to hear that, it helped so much, really glad to hear it, thanks for watching and supporting 🙏🏻

[@BernardMina]

Kliing these videos mate! Awesome! 👌💯

[@RockettDesign]

Thanks B, I appreciate it 🙏🏻

[@hazzat162]

Great vid thanks boss

[@RockettDesign]

Thanks so much, glad it helped!

[@zigmundotto3254]

Thank you!

[@RockettDesign]

Thank you 🙏🏻

[@TheStanman99]

Great film thank you 👏👏🇬🇧

[@RockettDesign]

Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@minxuanchen8084]

Thank you for your helpful video!! ❤I have another question, I want to create artwork for printing on both A3 and A4 paper sizes. My illustrations spread across the entire page, so I'm unsure whether I should draw right to the edge or leave a 1cm margin on each side? What do you suggest?

[@RockettDesign]

Hi! Very cool! It depends on what the print will be used for once it’s printed? If it’s going in a frame then what’s that frame like, does the artwork sit in front or behind the border inset, if your worried I would leave the border and do a test print and see if you like it

[@minxuanchen8084]

@@RockettDesign THANK YOU so much for your reply !!

[@siemsmidt7761]

Life saver

[@RockettDesign]

Thanks, glad it helped 🙏🏻

[@kesariashapatava117]

Thank you so much! i just have two questions. So, is it better to put size of height and width in pixels or im mm? or this doesn't matter if i increase my dpi to 300. Second question, so if my pixel size is more than 1000, doesn't this laready guarentee that once the artwork is printed the quality will be excellent. To put it simplly, highest pixel size and 300 dpi work together to create the best quality, am i right?

[@RockettDesign]

Hey 👋 Great questions! So Pixels or mm is really up to you and more for your own reference, or possibly what a company has provided you in terms of what they need (if you wanted to print your work and used a printing service, they may use pixels as a size reference). The key to print quality will be a mix of DPI and the size of the canvas, for example, when I create artwork I almost always create in A3 (297mm x 420mm) this guarantees I can print in A3 or smaller with no loss in quality, you just really want to avoid printing larger than the art you have created, this could mean loss in quality and usually does. DPI also works with the printing machines these print studios have and 33 'Dots Per Inch' will mean a huge amount of detail in each inch of the canvas. Overall, keep all your art in 300 DPI and create it at a large size and you'll never have any issues 👍🏻

[@DaysDrawings]

Hi there, I’m recently starting out with (printable digital) portrait commissions but I’m at a stand still because I don’t know how to get the best quality. Thankfully I stumbled on your vid, thanks! I had a question tho, I’m just now hearing A2 and A3 sizing for the first time-could you pls explain what this means exactly?

[@RockettDesign]

Hi! Amazing, sounds great! So those sizing options are for paper size, the normal size for paper which you would see most people use is A4, very common. As you change size you can just double the previous size, for example, put 2 A4 pages together and you get A3, put 2 A3 together and you get A2. When in doubt, create on what you think the biggest size is you’ll need to print at, that way you won’t lose quality. I usually create on A3 and then I can print anything that size or smaller without losing quality. Happy creating!

[@siddhartha_tamrakar]

Why do I have low number of maximum layers with same settings???

[@RockettDesign]

It’s probably the model and storage size of iPad you are using

[@luigi9388]

Hi, I have to make a high resolution illustration that will have to be printed 50x70 cm. How do you recommend setting up the canvas in procreate? do you recommend using photoshop?

[@RockettDesign]

Hi, Yeah you will be fine to create that canvas in Procreate. Keep in mind at that size you might have limited layers available. When you do create the canvas, make sure you select 'CM' as the sizing option, then enter your 50x70 dimension, then you will want to keep the DPI at 300 to ensure a high-quality print. Good luck!

[@lostonegrey1555]

I have two questions. So if a make a big canvas A3 or A1 size with a DPI of 300 possibly even 600, that should keep the overall quality if i wanted to scale smaller and print on different sizes? And when it comes to making a canvas what measurements do you use mm, cm, inches or pixels? A recent problem i have been having is not knowing what canvas size i want. Because i usually just stick to the default and go in thinking that i can change it later no worries. But i would like to know if going with a bigger canvas option will act as a sort of allrounder size that i could use instead of needing to know the exact size before hand and scale down no worries of quality loss. Because i just draw, and put my art on social media but i also think that one day i would like to print that stuff. I just dont know on what size specifically.

[@RockettDesign]

Hey, yeah really great questions. Ideally, I would be designing all of my work in A3 unless you know that you will need to make a bigger print in the future. A lot of people really like to buy A3 size prints, and it does give the option to print an A4 as well, so A4 an A3 are by far most the most common sizes, so designing an A3 will make sure you’re covered no matter what but you’re exactly right about the DPI, bare minimum is 300 DPI, and I would only design in 600 DPI if you really really needed to, 300 should serve you well no matter what. I personally use millimetres when I'm creating my canvases, when you do create a new canvas, it will appear at the bottom of the canvas sizes when you do create a new canvas, so you'll always be able to go click on that one, when you create a new one, it'll be in that same size with the same DPI and colour settings. good luck with it all, I can't wait to see what you create!

[@lostonegrey1555]

@@RockettDesign Thanks for the advice, just so i know would it work to have an A3 canvas that could print A5 and smaller? And im not sure if you might know but a procreate moderator said that if i use pixels instead of the other measurements when creating a canvas and go for the highest resolution i possibly can. Than that could also work to create a canvas that could to scaled and printed at different sizes with little to no quality loss. Might that work too? Because im not really technical when it comes to that sort of stuff and im not sure if that could reach smaller sizes, so i was wondering if you would have an opinion on that. Thanks.

[@RockettDesign]

Yeah Anything made in A3 will scale down to any size to print, you just wanna avoid scaling up from smaller sizes as you will lose quality. And yeah it'll help in pixels, but you'll still be somewhat limited in how big you can upscale before losing quality.

[@lostonegrey1555]

@@RockettDesign Thanks for the help. Im not worried about upscaling Id rather work big and downscale if i have too.

[@lonnyrussell7046]

When I set the same canvas size you set I only got 11 layers. Why?

[@RockettDesign]

The specifications of your iPad (the chip and the amount of storage) will help determine how many available layers you will have available on your canvas. I did the same settings with my M2 iPad Pro and got about half the available layers compared to my new M4 iPad Pro

[@rafaelmaschio-entrecameras2448]

I don’t think it worked for me. I was using A4 to make tiny tattoo flashes and it was pixelated. Changed to A3 and treated like and A4 to keep the size of the tattoos. Still pixelated

[@RockettDesign]

I’m sorry to hear that, when you first open procreate, make sure you are selecting the tiny little square with a plus in it up on the right hand corner as that will allow you to fine tune things, big thing you wanna do is make sure the DPI or PPI is set to 300 and then you shouldn’t get pixelation, good luck 🤞🏻

[@littlebitkool]

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[@RockettDesign]

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