What is the Largest Print Size Possible in Procreate?

[@kimdeuel]

It's 2024 and I'm still using a 2018 Ipad Pro with Procreate and I knew that layer capacity could be an issue going forward but I wasn't sure about print size. This video was very informative. I think I'll be fine on my 2018 for now for what I want to do. I do have photoshop on my PC if I ever need to do something that large (probably never).

[@cic_a_trix]

Thank you for sharing this with us.

[@anamariadorofte1559]

Thank you a lot for the time and effort put into this video. It is extremely useful ❤

[@kimtucker6056]

Thank you so much for explaining it in such an understandable way. I was getting frustrated. I am having a picture ready for my sister's wedding but couldn't figure out how to size it. This helps tremendously, and now I am sooooo relieved :D Wish there were more videos like these!

[@TomFroese]

Glad it helped! Thanks Kim!

[@paperartexpressions517]

Very illustrative content! You solve my biggest question creating a file, thank you so much! Clarifying about pixels, dpi and size was awesome 🤩

[@TomFroese]

Happy to help!

[@22ofME]

Great video!!! Thank you for your detail explanations. 🙌

[@TomFroese]

Glad it was helpful!

[@diaryofdaksha]

Thank you so so much for this video! Literally have been searching for this answer since years! Also, i never knew about the less dpi for bigger projects thing! Btw, i love your 6S class, SO MUCH 🌼🤙🏻

[@TomFroese]

Amazing! Happy to help, Daksha! Thanks for taking the class and for the kind review too!!!

[@minkberrystudio]

I recently did a bus wrap with procreate and it turned out amazing! It can be done.

[@TomFroese]

That is amazing! I would love to see it!

[@colleenmartin812]

@minkberrystudio I would love to create a vinyl sticker for an old caravan. Where did you get the print done and what dpi do you do please?

[@FadeEcomonics]

🔑 4:40 Procreate 11:25 Photoshop

[@ElectronicGuitarGirl]

This was really helpful, thank you so much! :)

[@TomFroese]

Glad it was helpful!

[@91wheelz]

I have a couple of questions that I cannot seem to find the answer to and I'm hoping that you can shed some light on them. I'm thinking of creating printable wall art to sell on Etsy and I want to be able to offer a couple of different ratio sizes so I was wondering if there is one canvas size that I can begin with that will resize into ratios 2:3, 3:4, 4:5? The biggest canvas size I can create on my iPad is a 24x36 at 278 DPI which will give me 4 layers to work with (I'd presumably use this for text prints and not anything more artistic). After that, is it possible to create templates in Procreate which measure to be the size of the biggest/most common size per ratio that will be ready for me to drag and drop the print into? For example, can I create 20x25, 20x30, and 18x24 templates that I can then drag the original artwork into? Would investing in Photoshop be a better option for resizing prints? Thank you for your time!

[@TomFroese]

Hi, sorry I don’t know how to answer this.

[@Artbyvarun19]

What should be the working color format for big printouts.. rgb or cmyk?? Please clarify this

[@TomFroese]

Thanks for the question! Short answer: RGB. Long answer, check with the printer. RGB files are smaller and actually have a wider colour gamut than CMYK. (See my Skillshare class The One Palette Illustrator for more on that - tomfroese.com/teaching). The catch is that when working in RGB you should make sure the colours you’re working with are within the CMYK gamut, so that the colours you see on screen will be the colours you see in print. How do you do this? Again check out my Skillshare class. Why not just work in CMYK then? Because 1) file size, and 2) more dynamic range of colour for any digital/screen usage.

[@Artbyvarun19]

@@TomFroese thank you for ur reply. I ll work in rgb then👍

[@trvlr002]

Have you got a video on how to change the canvas size (without losing quality) of a completed work from Procreate to Photoshop? For example, if I created a piece in procreate with dimensions of 10 x 10 and want to change it to 30 x 30 (which procreate won't let me do), can I do that in Photoshop without losing quality?

[@TomFroese]

Thanks for your question. There is no such thing as scaling a digital image UP (increasing the DPI) without losing quality. The only thing you can hope for is that when you go larger (from 10x10 to 30x30) you actually don't need as high of resolution. Going up from 10x10 to 30x30 goes up by a factor of 3, so without resampling your output DPI would go down by a factor of three. So 300 dpi would go down to 100 dpi.

[@trvlr002]

@@TomFroese Thanks so much for that explanation. Really appreciate it. I always thought that if you took a piece from Procreate to Photoshop, then Photoshop would allow you to increase the size without any issues. Not sure where I picked that up from. ;-). But thank you for explaining it!

[@Adriana_Es]

As a working graphic artist in the industry, I could never use Procreate due to its many limitations. Also no Hollywood Studio would ever accept anything with limited layers, capability and resolution. You do realize it's now 2024 and Procreate still can only create a canvas of 2 feet across by the bare minimum industry standards of 300dpi? Where I work we only print at resolutions of 600 dpi on large commercial Epson and Canon printers. 2x2 feet is very cute and all, but it won't be taken seriously by most employers. If you put Procreate on a resume, they're just going to assume you're a hobbyist and won't even consider your application. I work with large format printing for billboards too, and I've honestly haven't heard anyone even mention LF printing 25 or 50 dpi for about 15 years. Clear Channel won't even accept resolutions lower than 120dpi. Digital Billboards are very low res and they're still 72 or 96 ppi. If you want professional job, get professional hardware and software such as Adobe with a Wacom Cintiq Pro.

[@TomFroese]

Hello, thank you for your reply! The 25dpi is for really large format jobs, and honestly, it's always worked for me. It's also necessary because I work in raster. Have you watched my companion video to this one, where I talk about large format prints using Photoshop? I wonder if that changes your opinion? 50dpi works most of the time too, although you are right that the higher the resolution you can go, the better. Now as for this method being outdated (you haven't seen 25/50dpi for 15 years), I don't think this has anything to do with the passage of time or advances in technology along the way. Now as for your spicy 🌶️ opinion about Procreate, it does have a bit of an amateur appeal, for sure. But I know that many pros actually use it. Personally, nothing could replace Photoshop on my Mac for most jobs, so I think I'm on your page, Adriana!

[@Adriana_Es]

@@TomFroese thanks for your reply Tom :-) I'll watch your companion video to this one. I did ask an older experienced coworker here what he thought about 25-50dpi for LF being used today. He just smiled and said, "It has been done in the past, but it's not pretty in any way."

[@El_Madroño13]

Attitude much Adriana this video was meant for hobbyists not professionals jobs like you some of us are just trying to print a personal project not trying to advertise the next season of real housewives

[@paulawegman8567]

but, isn't 25 dpi or 50 dpi a super low resolution for print? isnt going to turn on pixelated? great video!

[@TomFroese]

You’d think! But check out my other video about large format printing with Photoshop. I explain it all there.

[@paulawegman8567]

awesome thanks!@@TomFroese

[@luisafernino]

I wonder if you make a smaller dimension at larger dpi, can you then increase the size? My iPad is older. I've been wanting to make posters at 24 x 36 at 300dpi and it tells me the file is too large.

[@TomFroese]

Thanks, Luisa, You can find the max size/resolution by looking up your specific iPad model.

[@N00bvlog]

I have the 2022 pro and I was playing around with maximum pixel count in Procreate. It looks like 11585x11585px is the highest you can go (and not a pixel higher) before it says “File Too Large”. That’s 134,212,225px’s. That gets you 10 layers to play with.

[@kacchan-2110]

Do you know what size I need for a 1 meter high and 2 meter wide print? I want to print sonething from procreate but I don't know what size to take for good quality print and not smudged

[@anushaseepersad4754]

Very helpful video!

[@TomFroese]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ateljeavesaltus]

That was excellent! Thank you! 🙂

[@TomFroese]

You are so welcome!

[@ateljeavesaltus]

🙂

[@BumbleBee_Graphics]

This is probably going to be a dumb question, you said that photoshops solution for large files is the PSD format. Procreate has a PSD export option what is this used for? How does it effect the file quality…. If I export a file from procreate as a PSD and import that PSD file in to photoshop can I turn it into one of those crazy large file formats if I need to? I can’t imagine there will ever be a need for me to do that with what I do I guess I’m just looking to fully understand the difference between photoshop PSD and procreate PSD.

[@TomFroese]

Hi Ashley, thanks for the question. Procreate allows you to export to PSD so you can open a file you made in Procreate in Photoshop. It's kind of like exporting a Google Doc to .DOCX format so you can open it in Word.

[@yuting386]

Thank you! this is so helpful!!

[@TomFroese]

You bet! Thanks for watching and dropping a comment, Yuting.

[@Quinks29]

Sir can i use procreate only for print my tshirt designs? If i can how‘s the cool size?

[@TomFroese]

Hi Adryan, thanks for your question. Yes, just make sure you're working in 300 dpi.

[@Quinks29]

@@TomFroese thank you for answer me, and can you recommend what‘s best CMYK format sir.

[@TomFroese]

@@Quinks29 Sorry Adryan, not sure what you mean by that …

[@ingeneizel3962]

Hi Ben, thanks so much for the informative video! I was wondering if I can get by with lower than 200dpi for a A1 procreate print?

[@TomFroese]

The name's Tom, but thanks for the question ;) Please watch my video about large format illustration for Photoshop.kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHjGdZ19Z7Grjqc

[@demilli1737]

Hey Tom! This is great. Thanks so much for sharing. I’m a mixed media artist looking to do large scale prints . I have the latest iPad so my files I created were 24”x36” in physical dimension with 300dpi. I want to print on canvas about 36x60” do to some layering! What DPI do you think I could get away with when transporting to Photoshop? Is there also a preferred file type to drop it in, psd, png etc? Thanks again 💛🙏🏼

[@TomFroese]

Hi Demilli, I hate to point you back to the video, but I explain how do figure this out at kzbin.info/www/bejne/foitcpZoZ9l5a8U … hope that helps!

[@TomFroese]

As for the output file, PSD is probably best. Also if I've misunderstood your question, and you're asking how big it could get if you used Photoshop instead, I have a video for that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHjGdZ19Z7Grjqc

[@gianlucacicco1335]

Hey! I’m trying to print a 70cm x 50cm poster with a resolution of 2000px x 3000px and 300dpi with procreate, is this possible? For a high quality print. Thanks!

[@TomFroese]

Watch the video and you’ll find the answer! I’m you might also find some helpful info in my video about large format illustrations in Photoshop. Look it up :)

[@Ouchthathurt843]

I figured this stuff on my own when I wanted to upsize my 11x17 landscape digital painting to something more grandiose in size. I was super disappointed. Had to settle with 18x24.

[@TomFroese]

Oh, sometimes we have to learn the hard way! Thanks for the comment!

[@marinabos6804]

so… I have an freelance art to do, it is a wall art that I’m going to print it out like a sticker on the wall. the size of the walls are like, 2,5 c 4 meters, can this be done in a canvas?

[@TomFroese]

Not sure, Marina, but I assume so. Good to look up "large format canvas printers."

[@be3630njs]

Recently just found this channel and it's a gold mine of information which is so accessible and well explained, thanks a lot 😁

[@TomFroese]

Thank you Ben! :)

[@corteltube]

I do digital art with procreate..never will need anything close to that big…lol…I would love to just get a nice 50in X 50inch…I have masterd layers and many of the features on procreate and now printing my artwork is my new learning venture…thanks for the video…sometimes these videos can be so hard to understand for the lay person, but you explained so even I could…almost…understand, but that me not you lol. thanks…I just want to create nice art ☺️.

[@TomFroese]

Awesome, thank you for watching and letting me know!

[@eljuli1003]

Hello and thank you for this video. I have an artwork with this dimensions: 4724x4724 pixels in 300dpi made in Procreate, i want to print it in a high quality paper, and the dimensions i want to print it are: 39.3 x39.3 inches. 100 cmsx100cms in Latinamerica) Will the print lose quality? Sorry my English, not a fluent speaker.

[@TomFroese]

Hi Fidelio, thanks for watching and for your comment! The short answer is yes, you will lose RESOLUTION as you scale the image up. But check with your printer (wherever you will get the print made) to see if the resolution is acceptable for them. Please watch my other video (Large format prints using Photoshop) - this might help you decided if the loss in resolution will still look good. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHjGdZ19Z7Grjqc

[@kacchan-2110]

My english is too bad to understand this full, what size do I need for a 1 meter high and 2 meter wide print? I want to print sonething from my procreate but canvas is always bad quality 😭

[@TomFroese]

Assuming the print is not going to be viewed close-up, you could get away with 1 m x 2 x @ 100-150 dpi. In your case, I would say, work as high as resolution as possible on your device and you'll get the best possible resolution in the print.

[@laravalentinacuneo]

Nice😍

[@TomFroese]

Thanks 🤗

[@todorkovacevic]

6:50 for those of you in a hurry

[@TomFroese]

These timestamp comments always hurt my feelings a tiny bit. 🤣 Should I have just posted the answer right away? Would have made for a very short video.

[@todorkovacevic]

@@TomFroese No you shouldn’t have posted it immediately, that’s what KZbin shorts are for. I watched the whole video and enjoyed it cuz I’m one of those guys that like to binge KZbin. My girlfriend is the type of person that just skips to the crucial part of the video so I always think about how she and people like her would skip so I like to leave time stamps for them. I’m a bit of a wierd guy 🤪🤓 keep up the good work man

[@TomFroese]

@@todorkovacevic It's all good. I'm sure many people just want to skip all the extra stuff!

[@colleengartner]

What about adding procreate png's to a photoshop file. I have a mural I'm working on that will be approx. 50 x 10. It will be made into wall paper.

[@kam7050]

Same problem here. Hows ur results eventually?

[@TomFroese]

Not sure what you are asking, @colleen and @kam7050 - please clarify.

[@Jennifer-wr9si]

can you get away with less than 300dpi for an A2 print? these larger files get unwieldy even on new-ish iPad pros. there must be some scale...

[@TomFroese]

Hi Jennifer, I think you could get away with 200 dpi.

[@manojithkrishnan]

A ping pong table is 2.7 x 1.5 m (9 x 5 ft) 14:27min

[@TomFroese]

Thanks! FYI The comparison is approximate, not down to the cm!

[@leon9996]

🎉🎉🎉

[@bjorn5974]

not true!

[@TomFroese]

What’s not true?