PROCREATE BASICS TUTORIAL // For All You Creative Digital Planners
The other day a customer asked me about doing a Procreate tutorial just to show off the basics of where everything was and how to get started. She noticed most tutorials she had found where geared towards people wanting to make beautiful works of art instead of just using the app for this and that. That’s how this video came about.
When I told my Facebook group how long it turned out to be they said they’d rather have a long video with time stamps than to wait for more parts to come out. So that’s what I’ve done. Be sure to check the time stamps below to skip around or to come back to different tools when you need a refresher. But I’d love for you to watch it all of course. They may even be something for you tuck away inside the video.
Time Stamps:
TIP: for clickable time stamps, view this tutorial on YouTube so you can click and jump directly to that time.
- 00:01 – What this video is about & why I created it
- 01:01 – Brand new intro
- 01:34 – Diving in – what I’m going to cover
- 04:13 – Starting with the Gallery view of Procreate (organizing with stacks & “covers”)
- 06:39 – Previewing art without actually opening it
- 07:32 – Select / Import (from different location) / Photo (from camera roll)
- 08:50 – Creating a canvas (from a size already made or making your own)
- 14:21 – Deleting / Duplicating / Sharing canvas from the Gallery
- 14:44 – Inside your drawing – zooming or orienting your canvas
- 15:32 – Basic overview of what tools are where
- 16:45 – TIP: disappearing brush (check your opacity)
- 17:37 – Basic overview of what tools are where (continued)
- 18:30 – That little square button on the slider bar & gesture controls
- 19:13 – Basic overview of what tools are where (continued)
- 20:06 – Choosing & working with colors in color panel
- 21:37 – Setting hex code to match stickers
- 23:45 – Back to color panel – using palettes
- 28:23 – Hubby interruption
- 28:44 – Layers panel
- 30:09 – TIP: Duplicating layers
- 31:10 – Layers panel continued
- 31:45 – Alpha lock / clipping masks / layer mask
- 37:50 – Merging and grouping layers
- 39:47 – layer blend modes
- 41:28 – Brushes panel
- 43:26 – 3 finger wipe out
- 44:37 – importing brushes & palettes
- 46:50 – blend modes w/ paper texture
- 48:52 – smudge tool
- 50:35 – erase tool
- 51:10 – duplicate & edit a brush
- 52:20 – stamp brushes
- 52:51 – Actions (wrench) menu – inserting files, text, copy/paste
- 54:26 – internal debate
- 54:40 – Canvas crop & drawing guide with assisted (grid & symmetry)
- 57:33 – Using a reference image / flipping / canvas info
- 59:43 – Sharing images and layers
- 01:01:42 – Time lapse video
- 01:02:15 – Preferences / gesture controls
- 01:03:38 – Touch actions off (back on for certain brushes)
- 01:04:52 – My current preference settings
- 01:05:51 – Pin your favorite brushes
- 01:06:22 – Quick shapes
- 01:07:06 – three finger swipe for copy & paste
- 01:07:49 – Adjustments – Hue / Gaussian Blur / Liquify
- 01:11:32 – selection & move (transform) tools / snapping
- 01:14:25 – wrap up and review
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