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1. Intro + Cheat Sheet Handbook!: Hi everybody. In today's class we are doing something very
bite-sized where you are going to learn 70 different
Procreate gestures. These are going to
speed up your workflow. Inevitably make your process so much easier so that
you can actually create the work that you want to create without feeling stifled. If you're not
familiar, procreate is an incredible software that
you can use on the iPad Pro. My name is Peggy Dean for those who don't know me,
I'm an artist, author, an educator, and stuff
is my absolute favorite. So I can't wait to
share this very bite-sized class with you. I've also got a robust handout
for you guys to download. That will be your
cheat sheet handbook that you can use it anytime, along with some other freebies, those are things that you
are going to want to grab. Let's jump right on in.
2. What You Need: Welcome to the class. We're going to
jump right on him, but before we get started, I will just let you know. It might seem silly, but you do need your iPad, you do need your
Procreate software. It's an app programmed in on your iPad and ready to go and you will need your Apple Pencil. Other than that, your
project for this class, I want you to create anything
that you want to create by implementing one dash three of these new workflows that
you're about to learn. I want to see what
you guys create mostly I just want
to show your work because there's
nothing like coming together as a community
in the creative space. So that being said, we're going to jump right on in.
3. The Gallery: The first section that
I want to talk to you guys about is
the gallery section. What you can do from here. First off, quick preview. You can quickly preview any
of your canvases simply by pinching out with two fingers on any Canvas in the gallery. Once the preview is open, you can swipe to review projects simply by swiping to the
right or swiping to the left. Something to note about
this is that if you do Swipe within a stack, it's going to open each
individual artwork in the stack. And if you close it
while in the stack, then it is going to put you in the stack rather
than the main gallery. Not a problem to have. It just takes you
through everything. Once you are open, all you have to do to close
your quick preview is two-finger drag
towards the center. So basically pinch back in. If you're open in one
of these projects and you decide that that's what you want to be working on. All you have to do from the quick preview
is just double-tap. And now you can see I have
my bar for my canvas. I've got my light and my Procreate Interface
and I'm ready to work. You can select multiple
projects by going to Select and simply tapping on
each project that you want to combine
in this selection, you can also tap and drag. And as you can see, all
these blue check-marks came on indicating that I'm
selecting all of these. You can unselect
the exact same way. You can rearrange
projects simply by tapping and holding and just dragging it in-between to others to move them around where
you want them to live. Within your gallery,
you can create stacks, as you may have
noticed, I've got layers that are
on top of layers. These are multiple
projects within one stack. This one has a ton of them, so this is a better way to
organize your files and your projects if you happen to work on multiple
Canvases at a time, to create a stack, there's two ways that
you can do this. The first is when you have
canvases or projects selected. All you have to do is go to stack and it's going to
create that for you. The other way that
you can do this is by taking one of your projects hovering over another image and then it creates
a stack for you. To remove a project
from a stack. Simply hold that project, go over to stack. It's going to reopen
your gallery. You can drag and drop
that wherever you want at that time to share or
duplicate or delete projects, you can swipe to the left and you'll see
that you can share, you can duplicate
or you can delete. You can do this in a bulk setting as well after you select multiple projects
from the top menu up here where you see share,
duplicate, or delete. Now we'll move into some
main workflow gestures, and I'll see you
in the next video.
4. Your Workflow: Now we'll move into some
main workflow gestures. As you can see, I have a
Canvas open and I'm in my project workflow
interface of procreate. The first I'll show
you this to zoom in. This one's pretty simple. You just pinch out
with two fingers. To zoom back out. You're going to pinch with two fingers to reset the frame. If you are wanting it to snap
back to the actual frame, you just two-finger pinch it
back together to rotate it. You can use two fingers
and just rotate. This will do the same thing
while zooming in and out. So it has a lot of
easy capabilities as far as adjusting your
Canvas on the screen. If you want to go
into full screen, Let's say you don't
want this bar. All you have to do is tap with four fingers and you can
see the bar removed, the bar removed on the
side with the sliders. To return to it, all you have to do is
four-fingered tap again, or there's a little
icon on the top left. You can tap that as well. If you want to move
your slider here, you just swipe out from the side and then you
can drag it up or down that will adjust it on height wherever
you want it to go. If you want to switch
it to the other side, you just simply go to actions, preferences, and then toggle on right-hand interface
and you'll see it pops over to the right side. To invoke quick menu. You can enable this in settings. You go to Actions, you go to Preferences, and then you'll go
to gesture controls, and then quick menu. You'll see that I have
changed mine to where if I tap on the rounded square
in-between the sliders, they will invoke or dismiss
quick menu just as a sample. That's what it looks like. And then to edit what
this looks like, I would go into it and you can edit the quick menu by
just tapping and holding. And then you can swipe through all of the actions
that you can do. Let's say that you created
some marks that you didn't want to or you changed your mind about or
they were an accident. To undo it, you can just simply
tap with two fingers and it will take each of those
actions away to redo them. You can use three fingers
tap to bring them back. If you want to rapid undo, you can take two
fingers and just hold down and it will
get rid of them. Three finger rapid redo
will bring them back. If you want to clear layer, you just use three fingers
and scrub the screen and it's going to clear whatever is on that particular layer. Let's say you want to
copy and paste it, a portion or an item. All you have to do is be on, make sure you're on the
layer that you want to be on and use three fingers swiped and that will invoke
the copy paste menu along with the cut
and paste menu. So that would be
the same action. You can create a
straight line by creating a stroke and holding your pencil until it
snaps into place. And then you can also create a straight
line that snaps into 15 degree increments
by holding it down and then taking
one of your fingers, holding that on the page. And then you can
see it will be in perfect 15 degree increments, including if you need this to be straight
on a horizontal line, it will snap to that
as well as snap to a perfect vertical. Same thing goes for shapes. If you want to create
a perfect square, all that you have to do is hold that down after you draw it. You can see that the
square is not perfect. But if I take my finger
and hold it down, it snaps into a perfect square. Before I let go, I can do the same thing
where I rotate it and that's going to snap it
into 15 degree increments. So it'll go perfect
vertical like this, or perfect square,
depending on what I want. I do need to hold it down
and let go while it's being held down to make sure that that stays in that
perfect shape. The same goes for circles. It'll make perfect curves. You can see this is
clearly an oblong shape, but if I hold down
with my finger, it snaps to a circle. Let's say that you have
created a selection. I'll just grab one of these. And it's pretty large and you're not really sure you want
to move it somewhere. Let's say you spent a
long time selecting it and you want to be able
to see your whole Canvas, but you're kinda stuck
because you already had spent all that time making
that selection. You don't have to de-select. You can actually hold
down the arrow right here and shrink down while that
selection is still there. Without ruining the selection
or moving the selection. You can use split
screen in Procreate. You just want to
make sure you have the other app open that you want to use, the
multitask width. So let's say I want
to use Pinterest. Pinterest is open. And then from procreate you're going to swipe up on the bottom, hover over Pinterest and
drag it over to the side. Make sure it's on the side. If it's within, it
will put this picture in picture and it will be in the way you want it
to be on the side. Release. And then you have split screen. You can adjust your
split screen ratio with this little icon in the center by pulling to the left
or pulling to the right, depending on what you want to be focused on as far as what's
taking up more room. You can also at the very
top here, this little bar, move it from left to right than to remove
split-screen altogether. Simply take that same bar
and swipe it off the screen. And then you have closed split screen and you're
back to your main program. Let's talk layers now, in the next video.
5. Layers: Let's talk layers
now to lock a layer, this will protect everything
that's on that layer and not let you have any sort
of destruction to it. Simply swipe left on
the layer and say lock, you'll see a padlock right here that will prevent you from
doing anything to that layer. To organize your layers, all you have to do is select a layer and
you can drag it up or down within your layer
panel and then just release to drop it where
you'd like it to go. If you want to select
multiple layers, all you have to do is I'm going to unlock
those real quick. All you'll have to do is once you have one of
your layer selected, just swipe to the right and then really swipe to the
right and then release. And then you have
multiple layers selected. If you want to group layers, you would select them like
I did, and then say group. And then you'll
see that you have a nice group ready to go. Another way that you can do
this is by taking a selection and hovering over that
layer beneath it, let go and it creates a group. Let's say you want to merge those layers rather
than group them. All you have to do is
either pinch them together. So if I selected this top layer, in this bottom layer
with my fingers, it will group at earlier, excuse me, it will merge
everything together, including what's
on the inside of it that goes from
multiple layers. If you want to delete a layer, just swipe to the
left, say Delete. Let's say you want to
adjust the opacity without having to go into
all of the settings. All that you need to
do is two-finger tap on the layer in the
layer panel and then you can swipe
to adjust opacity. If you want to select
all the contents on a particular layer, all you have to do within
the layer panel is take two fingers and hold, and then it selects
the layer contents. So you can see all
of that selected. To bring up the Layer menu. Simply go to the layers, tap the layer that you want, and your Layer menu will open
for that particular layer. If you want to lock alpha, lock one of the layers, and what that means is
whatever you do will only be affected to the pixels on that particular layer
rather than everywhere. So let's say if I was
to draw all over here, if I was to alpha lock it, which the control is two
fingers swipe to the right on a layer release and
you can see that it has this checkerboard
grid to alpha lock. Now when I do that, it will only affect that particular layer. Side note pro tip, I prefer using clipping masks, but that is the quick gesture for Alpha Lock to
isolate one layer. Let's say you want to
turn off all the layers, but one of them all
you have to do. It doesn't matter if
it's selected or not, is go to the visibility icon, which is this checkmark. Hold down on it and it's
going to turn all of the other layers off so that you've isolated
only that layer. It doesn't get rid of them
because you can always turn them all back on. Let's say you want
to copy a layer to another Canvas to do this. All you have to do
and it's not going to remove it from this canvas, but you'll hold
down on the layer, drag it out, continue
holding select Gallery. And then you can go into another layer or excuse
me, another project. It doesn't have to be within
the same stack either, and I'm still holding it. And then when I release, it will add it to
that canvas as well. Now let's get into brushes.
6. The Brushes: If you need a precise
brush adjustment, all you need to do is go
to your brush slider here. Oops, select the slider and then tap out of it or drag
out of it rather. And you'll see
that as I move up, It's a lot slower than if
I were a directly in here. That's going to give you a
much more accurate size. The same goes for opacity, precise opacity,
tap and drag out. And then you have a much
more precise selection. If you want to
organize your brushes, just go to your brush panel. And brushes will be, will grab one, hold it, and drag it up or down
and then release it in-between two that you
want or just below it. Then you can also organize brush sets by doing
the same thing. So you can tap and hold, drag it wherever
you want it to go. If you want to create
a new brush set, you will want to be
in your brushes, your brush set menu, just pull down and you'll see it will reveal
this plus symbol. That is, you will
select that and it will create a new brush set. And then if you want
to create a new brush, it could be from any
of these folders. Make sure you're in the
right folder and simply tap the plus symbol on the
top-right to share a brush, simply swipe to the
left and say share. You can also duplicate brushes
by pressing Duplicate. And then you can delete a brush set by doing
the same thing, swiping left and saying delete. If you want to
share a brush set, you will just tap on the
brush set and then say share. You can also rename, delete and duplicate that way as well. If you want to grab the
same brush that you're using for your eraser as
you're using as your brush, simply just hold down
on the eraser and it will give you the
exact same brush that you're using
in both places. Same goes for this smudge tool. Just hold it down. Now we'll move into color in
our next video.
7. Oh My Color: Now we'll move into color. Color drop is really easy if
you want to fill a canvas by selecting the
round color icon, dragging it and dropping
it onto the canvas. Now, you can adjust the flood
threshold of the color. So let's say I have a shape right here and I've kept
it kind of light at the bottom here
because I want to show you what this would look like if I were to adjust the threshold. So sometimes this
works differently, depending on your shapes
are what you're feeling. But you'll see the
color threshold is right here at the top. If I drag down or drag up, it will affect my
color drop threshold as you're changing
through your colors. Maybe you get on a blue and
you're having fun with it, but then you want to go back to the previous color rather
than having to sample it, you can just hold
the color icon on the top and then it will
revert to the previous color. Speaking of grabbing the last color from the Canvas though, all you have to do is hold down your finger and then you will
see this circle come up. And you can grab a color
from just about everywhere. Now to create a color palette, all you need to do is go
into your color interface. You should see this by default, but you can go into
palettes on the top, on the bottom left. And then all you
have to do is select the plus sign here and then
say create new palette. It also gives you the option to take a picture and grab it. Create a palette that way,
create one from a file or create a new one from photos. But for this one, you would just select the plus sign
and create new pallet. And then you'll see
your new palette is untitled right here. You can organize your color
palettes by selecting them, holding and dragging
them up or down, just the same as you do with
your layers or your brushes. To add a new color
to your palette, make sure you have the color
selected that you want. And then all you'd have to do is select a square
within that palette. And then it will live there to rearrange,
organize your colors. You can tap and hold and drag, and it will move around
within your palette. You can also delete colors from palettes by tapping and holding. And then it will let you delete the swatch to share
a color palette. Simply swipe to the
left and say share. You can also delete this way by swiping to the
left and saying delete. Let's say you want
to get a true color. You can go to the color disk here and see this white area. It's really hard to
find a perfect white. So if I take my finger
and I double-tap, it's going to snap it
directly to that white area. So even if it's way over here, I just double-tap, see
it'll snap right to white. And this goes for black. It goes for the blue. It's really anywhere within the disc that you want
it to isolate to. Do you want to get even more
specific with your colors. You can take two
fingers and pinch out to zoom in on
the color wheel. Or if you want to zoom back out, just take two fingers and pinch in and it'll
bring back your hues. Join me in the next video
to grab your download. I am excited for you to get
your hands on this one.
8. Project Time!: Alright everybody. Now your project for
this class is to take one to three of these new tips that you use to really enhance your workflow and make things
run a lot smoother for you and just share
your beautiful art because I want to see it. Everybody wants to see it. And your next steps, if you want to dive even deeper, check out my other Procreate
fundamentals class, everything that you didn't realize that you wanted to know. I've got a plethora of classes and also a lot of freebies. As you could see your downloads, you can access flow, grab them, they're really good. You're going to want them
in your back pocket. Okay. See you online.
Peggy Dean, Top Teacher | The Pigeon Letters
