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1. IColorama Introduction: Never heard of Eichler armor. Well, I believe it's the
most powerful tool of Procreate or digital artists
can have in their arsenal. He may be thinking, how can it help
you as an artist? I color armor as a myriad of textures, special
effects, brushes, and transformational
tools that can lift any image into an
exceptional piece of art. It can help you change one
picture into many variations, which is so useful for print on-demand sites to
increase your sales. Would you like to transform your art in ways you've
never dreamt of. Eye color. Alma gives you so many
options and ideas. Your creative juices will flow. You won't be disappointed
but inspired. So why not try out my first
course on Eichler armor? I'm Christine share
born, a British ex-pat, artists and author living on the Beautiful Gold
Coast in Australia. Hit the Follow button
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future courses. Then check out my
teacher profile to discover more about
me. Intrigued. Then let's go.
2. Lesson One iColorama Overview: Welcome to Lesson one, eye color armor overview. Eichler armor is a
very powerful program. Eye color armor
literally has sizes of brushes and effects and all sorts of things you can
do to change your images. It would take literally
several hours to show you every part
of eye color armor. So what I intend to do is
to show you an overview and gradually build on the
different effects you can have during each lesson. And I will do several courses to eventually cover every
aspects of eye color armor. So now we'll go to the app store to
download Eichler armor. You'll be pleased
to know that it's a one-off cost of
around about $10. So let's go to the App Store. Type in the search
engine, eye color armor. And this is what it looks like. Download the one on the left, open up Eichler armor. And you will see a
menu at the top. On the top left-hand corner. You'll see a picture symbol. Press this and tap
image from library. Choose an image from
your camera roll. This particular image is of a New Zealand field that
I painted last year. Tap on tone. And you'll see impulse. Impulse is always the
image from your library, the original image that
you've brought in. Now, let's tap on the
sub-menu on enhance. You'll see the picture change. Now if you tap on the window in the bottom right-hand corner, you can see all sorts of different ways you can
enhance this picture. Simply tap on each one and
see which one you like. And you can change the contrast by the
slider at the bottom. Change the Gamma,
change the opacity. All of the ones along this particular menu work
in a very similar way. So now we'll press Postel. You see again the
tone has changed. Press on the window in the
bottom right-hand corner. And you can choose
different types of pasta. And again, using the
sliders at the bottom, you can change the contrast, the gamma or the opacity. I will just go along that menu to see the different types of
effects you can get. So we've got semi neon, tint, lo amo, duotone, sepia,
black and white. Black and white and one color. Match. Daylight, muted. There's different
themes like adventure, seashore, vacation, sunsets, extra, orange, paradise,
pop, interior, dark, vibrant film, moody, fantasy, old, and so on. And again, remember that
you can always go down to the bottom right-hand
side and tap the window, which will give you
many variations. In this case on cinematic. Remember the sliders that
you can adjust the contrast, the Gamma and the opacity. So that's an overview of tone. Now we'll move on to the preset. Before we look at
the preset menu, I would like to go over
some essential controls. In the top left-hand corner. Again, tap on the picture icon and import your image
from the library. Now, choose texture on the
top menu, and then paper. The window at the bottom
right-hand corner. You can choose different
paper effects. You can increase them, change the size. And the opacity. In the top right-hand corner
you will see a square. If you hold this time. It shows the before and after. So without the texture,
with the texture. When you're happy
with the texture. The next control, the
top right-hand corner, is a circle with a tick. This saves your adjustments. Now go to the top
left-hand corner with the half circle arrow. Press fast. You will
see the history. So you have with us the texture. With the texture, and any other adjustments
that you've made. You happy with your
finished image. Go to the top right-hand corner, press the up arrow, and save to your camera roll. Those are the main controls for importing and
exporting your image. Now, let's move on to presets. The first one is a gradient. And there's different
gradients you can choose, and then you can change
the screen mode. Multiply overlay. Screen. Lineal is another one that changes the colors
across the picture. So have a look at border. You can make some interesting
borders for your picture. We've got different grids. Again, different
colors, which color? Different areas of the picture. And I think that's
all we're going to look at for the time
being, for the presets. Let's move on to style. Style is a menu that
you'll use quite often. Let's see what some of these do. Sketch. This is really
handy if you want to use a photograph and turn it into a sketch to take into
procreate and use it there. Simplify. Different painterly style. Edges is another
really good one to make a sketch of
your photograph. He's a plan one. Mosaic. It makes your photograph or image look like window. Humming a stained glass window. Quite cool. Now let's
move on to effects. Blend will go into
this one later. It's where you blend
two pictures together. Glow gives you different
glowing effects. Sharpen. Raise. This can make your photograph
look like an oil painting. Now we'll move on to adjust. This changes different
colors, vibrant shadows. You can adjust all the
different parts of your image. Now we're going to look
at the brush menu. This really needs special
tutorials for each one. So I'm just going to quickly
go through some tools here. Starting with rebound. Say that you get a clear canvas. But if you start painting is uncovers the image underneath. You can press on brush and
change your brush style. If you press on clean and okay, it takes it away. So we look at artists which
works in a similar way. This is a quite different brush. I've got hair and
you can see you can get quite different
effects with that. Again, clean. Okay. Stamps using different brushes to stamping effects on there. Again, this needs a
tutorial on its own. So how clean that image
will look at abstracts, which has got presets, swirls, circles, displays. Again, this needs a
separate tutorial. So we'll clean that
off and go on to form. Now we're looking at form. You can make some
interesting pictures from using things like mirror. Quite good for pattern-making. Class. Waves, tiles, the quiet good to make a
single image into a pattern. And now we'll move
on to texture. We already looked at
the paper textures. There's loads of
these, as you can see. Bokeh, which gives you
different bokeh lights effects. Not for this image, of course, birth, quite good for
some other images. Smoke, lightning. We can move the lightning round. You want to make a picture more interesting by
adding lightening. Fireworks. Rain, bubbles, sparkles. I use this one quite a lot. Flask patterns. You can even make your
image look like metal. Well, there we are. Just a short overview. And you can have fun
yourself playing about with the
different textures. So let's move on to lesson two.
3. Lesson Two Having Fun with the Toon Tool: Hi everyone. Welcome to lesson. To start with, we're going to have some fun
with the tune effect. In a few simple steps. We're going to turn
this photo image into this styling artwork of
a gorgeous little girl. Looks good, right? You can either use
my original photo, which you'll find in
the resources section, or choose your own. Why not take a moment to browse your library and find a
cute photo of your child, grandchild, or maybe a
favorite niece or nephew. He's another example. I think you'll enjoy this class. So let's get started. First of all, open up
the Procreate app. Click on the plus sign on the top right-hand corner
and choose the canvas size. In this case, I've chosen a
16 by 20 inches in 300 dpi. Tap on the wrench
icon and choose Add. Then photo. Import your chosen image. Resize your image using the blue markers or
simply tap Fill page. Adjusts the photo until you
are happy with the placement. Now, back to the
wrench tool to share. Save the photo to your camera. Roll. Now, open up the
Eichler armor app. Tap the photo icon in the
upper left-hand corner. Then tap image from library and import
your adjusted photo. Look along the top
menu and tap on style a sudden and
you will open up, look for and tap the name
to know the magic happens. Immediately. The picture will change
into the tune effects. Don't worry if the
image changes size. You can adjust this later on. Save the image by
tapping on the arrow in the top right-hand
corner and press Save. This will save the adjusted
image into your camera, roll. Open up, procreate, and choose the same
canvas sizes before, which was 16 by 20. Import the tune image and
resize to fit the canvas. Once more. There. Look carefully for any
changes that need to be made. In this case, we can see part of the hair and the
background is missing. So let's fill in these areas. Tap on the brush icon and
choose the soft air brush, which comes with the
Procreate brush menu. Then go to the Transform tool. Move right down to the
button and choose clone. You see a circle appear. Moves a circle with
your finger to the part you want to copy or clone
to the missing parts. Move your brush carefully. And you will see that it will
clone the same background. I'll keep moving the circle. So it's on the right
part of the background. I want to recreate move your apple pen in the same direction so that the texture matches. I keep moving the circle. So it stays on the right's
color that I want to copy. Just my brush down a little bit to get into
the smaller areas. Now I can see also over on the right-hand side we've
got the black area. Which I think would look
better in the purple color. So leaving the circle
on the purple side, I gently fill in
the black to match. Now, let's move our
attention to the hair. There is a little bit of purple that needs going
at the top there. Then we move the circle
onto the hair and copy a little bit more of the
hair to fill in that space. There. C will slow down the side here. We need a little bit more hair. Try to match up the colors so they though into one another. And look like
they're meant to be. Let's have a look at
the picture again. We can see in the
bottom left-hand corner that we need to put some
more purple background. So I moved to circle back
onto the purple part. And gently cloning. Make the brush a little
bit bigger. There. Now, looking very
carefully at the picture, I see there is in
the bottom left-hand corner a little white line. I think we'll just
get rid of that. Okay, I'm happy with the
part that we've cloned. I'm going to click off
the transform tool. Now, looking at the picture, I can see that the eyes of the little girls would
benefit from some highlights. So go into the layer
and plus sign. A new layer. Change the brush to studio pen or
something similar. On the color wheel. Double-tap the ad side
to make it a pure white. Now, we going to
put some highlights in there that's better. I'm going to make the
brush smaller and just put a little highlight. Not happy those, I'll try them. That looks patch brighter. That's all finished. So now we'll save the Photo. Share JPEG. Save Image. Open up Eichler armor. Tuck the image in the
top left-hand corner, and choose image from library. Next, we're going
to give the image some interests by
adding a texture. Look along the top menu
and choose texture. Look along the sub
menu and choose paper. You'll notice in the
bottom right-hand corner a window, press the window. And that will open up a sudden menu with
different paper textures. As you tap each one, you can see the texture
change on the image. Choose the one you like. I think this first
one looks quite good. And now looking
along the top menu, we're on texture,
leave it on texture. And on the second menu, go along to lyse bokeh. Again, tap on the little
window and you can see different types of Bokeh that
you could put it on there. I don't think this is
right for this image. So I'm going to go along the
menu and look for Sparkles. Tap on the window and you see different kinds of
Spark or you can add, I think this one is perfect. The orientation is wrong, so I'm going to slide the rotation around,
make it portrays. Spread the sparkles with my
fingers to cover the image. Now you can see the sparkles
or all over the image. And we really want
to clear the face. So on the left-hand side, tap the circle mask. And then the menu, this appears. Tap the cross. And that gives you a circle. You can move this circle
around and you can expand it. Also in the bottom menu
you'll see blur radius. You can raise that
slightly so it blurs out in a softer fashion. There. I think that's about right. At this point, we're going to tap the tick on the
upper right-hand corner. To save a selection. At this point, I
want to show you on the top left-hand
corner a half circle, which is the history circle. So we have the original image
and the finished image. We have the finished
image we're going to export to the camera roll. So tap on the top right-hand
corner and press Save, and that will go
straight to your camera. Roll. Open up, Procreate again. Select your Canvas 16 by 20. In port, you're finished image
and press Fit to Canvas. There. Now at this point, we could make some
other changes. So let's just try a few hours. Tap on the layer button, you swipe the layer one to the left and duplicate
this duplicated version. We're going to press the
N. And we're going to try the different screens and see if any of them make
the picture better. You can, of course, choose any type of screen
that you like. But for me, I think the one
called screen is quite good. The license that image, but the opacity is too great. So I'm going to slide
the opacity down to about 40 per cent. There. I'm happy with that. I hope you've enjoyed this class and have an amazing
finished artwork. I would love to see
your final pictures and encourage you to upload
them to the class projects. See you in the next lesson.
4. Lesson Three Blend Mode: Lesson three. In this class we
are going to use the blend mode to blend
two pictures together. So let's get started. I've provided the
two images for you, but I encourage you to
experiment with your own. Let's go import the first image. This portrait is one
I painted last year. And I want to bring
more interest to it. Find effects in the top menu. And then tap blend
in the sub menu. In the bottom right-hand corner, tap the picture icon and
choose the second picture. This case, a bouquet of flowers. Moves per k around with your
fingers to better position. And then slide the
rotation slider to make it in the
right direction. There. That's looking good. Now, tap on the adjustments
circle to save. That's the circle with the tick in the upper right-hand corner. Remember, this will save
the image to your history. Now, let's add some texture. Choose texture from
the main menu. And the sub-menu pressed paper. And then the window in the
bottom right-hand corner. As before, you can choose different textures to
find one that you like. When you're happy
with the texture. Tap the adjustments to save. Just as a reminder, go to the history icon. Now you will see
your original image. The image with the bulky and the image with the
bot K and the texture. At any time you can go here and backtrack by tapping
of previous image. Now, let's change the
mood of the portrait. Tap tone in the top menu. And then we'll just explore
some different effects. Let's try adventure. Tap the window icon and you can change the colors and the
tone to an adventure tone. In this case. Let's try pop. That's really Bryce. Maybe not for this one. Vibrant. You can play around
for a long time actually, with all the different
moods that you can get. Fashion. Let's try beauty. That's quite nice. There are literally
thousands of variations, so take your time to
explore the options. Remember the button on
the top right-hand corner that you can press to see the previous image
and the new image. So you can see the
adjustments you make. Let's try party. That's pretty bright. Again, a reminder
that you can use the sliders to
change the contrast. The Gamma and the opacity. You'll see a bar named normal At the
bottom right-hand corner. If you press this, it gives you a
choice of screens. So you can have multiply
overlay screen, lighten these. You can also change the
contrast and the Gamma to suit. Okay, let's choose one. I'm going to go with modern. And number 11. I quite like this. Let's have a look at
the before and after. Yes, it gives a nice warm tone. Let's look at the screens. Multiply a bit dark overlay
to light, even lighter. I think we'll leave
it on normal. I think we'll put the
contrast up a little bit. And maybe the gamma. Dan slightly there. I'm happy with that. So I'm going to say
to adjustments. And now I'm going to export
the new image to my camera. Roll and press Save. Take your time to experiment. Next, we're going
to put this image together as this little boy with marbles and bubbles using different parts of
eye color armor, open eye color armor, and import the marble image. The image is being
taken from Pixabay, so they're quite legal to use, choose Style and press 2ND. This is going to change
it into a tune image. Now let's save that
to our camera roll. Next we're going to import
the picture of the boy. Again, go to style
and press two. Now we're going to save
this image back to the picture icon and
import the marbles. Now we're going to
effects and blend. The bottom right-hand corner. Tap the picture icon, and import the tune
image of the little boy. Move this over. See that looks quite good. Then we're going to
tap the brush mask on the left-hand side. You can adjust the brush size. And what we're
going to do now is to remove the parts
that we don't want. Can reduce the brush size. And you can press, Zoom on the left-hand side
and bring the image app so you can see
the picture better. Press brush mask again and carry on moving
the background. I'm going to reduce
the brush size even further to go around the face. And we need to do
the other side. Press Zoom again and
move it back in. Brush. Finish off this bottom
corner there. That's it. So I'm going to save
the adjustment. Just be on the safe side. I'm going to save
the picture as well. Now we're going to go
to texture and bubbles. And choose some bubbles
that looks quite good. Press Brush mask on the left, and then removes the bubbles. And the little boy space. That looks quite good,
saves the adjustment. Now we're going to go to tone. And along the sub
menu, tap, pop. I think this just gives a
little bit more to the picture. Maybe just the gamma slightly. If you've pressed normal,
you can multiply. Overlay, screen lightened. Overlay, looks pretty good. It's nice and bright. But let's reduce
the opacity there. That's better. Now we're
going to say the adjustment. And then save to
the camera, roll. Open up, procreate, and
choose your canvas size. Now, bringing the image
from your camera, roll and press Fit to Canvas. I'm happy with that. Now, make a second layer. Have your brush on
studio pen and white. We're just going to make the highlights in his
eyes little brighter. And the highlights on his lit. Just to give it a bit
more life to the picture. And I think that's it. Next we're going
to do a collage. This is a 1920s lady and the butterfly on an
interesting background. So let's get started and
go to Eichler armor. Go to Eichler armor, tap the picture icon and get the background
image from the library. We are. Now go to effects and blend. Press the picture icon on the
bottom right-hand corner, and import the
picture of the lady. Let's make her a little
bit bigger and move her into the corner there. I'm happy with that placement. So let's save the adjustment. Now go back into blend, picture, icon and choose the butterfly. Need to move the
butterfly around and rotate with the
slider at the bottom. I think we'll make the butterfly
little bit bigger there. Save the adjustment. Now we're going to turn. We're going to find
in the sub-menu, drama, press on the window and look through the
different options. This, in this case, I'm going to choose number nine. I quite like the orange
with the teal color. Now let's see this
further adjustment we can make by pressing normal. So we can multiply
overlay screen lights. And I think the
overlay looks good. I think we're going to
turn down the opacity a little bit there. Safely adjustment. I'd save the image as well. Now we're going to go to texture and look
for miscellaneous. Tap the window. And we're going to
choose number seven. Let's make it a bit bigger. I'm going to encircle
the butterfly. Just to add a little
bit more interest. Going to save the adjustment. I still think we need
some texture on there. So staying in the Texture menu, Let's go all the way to the
beginning and press paper. And let's put a nice
paper texture on there. The number 11, I like that. Saved the adjustment. And then save the image. That brings us to the end of the lesson
on the Blend Mode. See you in the next lesson.
5. Lesson Four Creating with Compose: In this lesson, we're
going to explore compose, a creative process ideal for producing
abstract paintings. Here's an example. We're going to turn this
into something like this. I say something like, As every image turns out
completely different. So let's get started and open
up a canvas in Procreate. First of all, choose
the studio pen. Quite high size. Choose a nice clear color. Now we're simply
going to do anything. So we're going to make shapes. Change the color. Do the outline and
fill in the shape. Change the color again, and change the color once more. There. Now you see we have 1234 colors and plus
white is five colors. I think we'll just change the red color to another
one that's a little bit more a difference. You'll see why later. There, we've got a
completely abstract shape, which we're going to save to the camera roll and
take into Eichler arm. Open up Eichler armor, taps the picture icon and
import the image you just made. Remember it can be any shape, any color, but it must
consist of five colors. Now going to precess
along the sub-menu. Find composed. Now you see it's changed the image into
different patterns. There's actually five. If you look along the bottom, you will see squares 12345. On the right-hand side at
the bottom is threshold. The threshold. If
you move the slider, it changes the patents around. Change it. So you can see five patterns. That looks quite good. So now we're going to
tap on the first square. This will bring up this menu. Tap on the window. And you'll see all these
different patterns. For this first one, we're going to use the
patterns that are provided. So let's see. That looks quite good. Now let's tap on
the second window. Choose the window. And let's try the orange. You can change the
size of the image by pressing using this slider to make the image
bigger or smaller. Now, we're going to tap on the third pattern and
choose another image. Let's go for that dark one. Now we're going to
tap on the fourth. Open up the window, and choose a fourth image. Now, tap on pattern five. Open the window and
choose another image. Now this one, it looks
to be one color, but if you slide the size down, you can see it's actually
another pattern. Night, if you look on the
bottom right-hand side, you'll see an image
that's called edge. If you tap on the color
button next to it, you can change the
color of the edge. Now you'll see a blue edge appearing around the
different sections. And you can make this edge larger or smaller or have known. I think we'll go just
for a tiny edge. Okay, so that's
our first pattern. So in the top right-hand
corner, saves the adjustment. Now we're going to look at
what we can do with it. So we're going to go to form, look at different
transformations. So we've got deforms,
press the window, and we can change all
the shapes there, the patterns in a ball, a swirl, or different shapes. That one's quite interesting. But none of them really appeals. So let's move on to glass. Now. Let's try waves. I quite like Escher. That one. The first one looks quite good. You can see all different
transformations that you can make. Let's move on to tiles. That's completely different. That looks like a Persian rug. Let's try tunnel. That's quite good. I think for this particular image
will stay with Azure. Can choose absolutely
anyone that you like. Let's go with that one. So now I'm going to
save the adjustment. And a fine, like I can go into town and choose
different colors. That's quite good. Let's try vacation. And vibrant. I like that one. I think I'm going to use this. So now I'm going to
save the adjustments. Is there anything
else we can do? Now? I think we'll
leave it at that. So let's have a look
at the history. There's the first picture
that we started with. The second, where we put the patterns in
another variation. Then we change the color. And that's what
we've finished with. So now I'm going to save the
image to my camera roll. Now let's start again. An import exactly the same
image from the library. So this is exactly the same
as the last one we did, but it's going to look
entirely different. So now we go into precess in to compose and their passions. News this threshold. There, we've got all
different passenger. The button, press
the first pattern. Instead of choosing the window, we're going to choose
the picture icon. So I'm going to fill
each of the areas with a pattern that I made
previously in Procreate. So let's start with this one. Now we're going to go to
pattern, to picture icon. Something that goes with
the orange, maybe this one. And we can adjust the size to show different
parts of the pattern. Now let's go to Pattern three. Picture icon. This
looks really bright. Let's try that one. Good pattern for picture icon. Let's go with the
butterflies game. We can change the size. Now let's go to Pattern
five, picture icon. Let's try this one. But it looks like
a single color, but actually it's not. If we move the slider will
bring the pattern back there. That looks quite good. I don't really want
to change the edge, so we'll leave the
edge as it is. So this is our new design. So we're going to press adjustments in the top
right-hand corner. Now what can we do
with this design? We'll go back to the form. Prestige forms. A beautiful ball.
That's quite good. I quite like the swirl. Let's save that as an option. Let's go to Azure. I quite like that. Let's save that as an option. Let's go to tiles. This is quite good for
making a repeating pattern. That's quite nice,
the glass effect. So let's save that as
an option. Tunnel. I quite like that. So we'll save that as an option. Now we can go the
top left hand corner and press our history. Let's have a look. This is our original image. This is our image with
the colored tiles. This is one option. We chose a swirl effects. I quite like that. Another option, another one. And the final option. I quite like the swirl effect, so we're going to
go back to that. Now. Let's have a look. If we can change the colors, will go to town. And let's try pop there. That's a completely
different look. I'm going to save that option. Go to pop again. Gives us some really
different looks. I quite like that one. So I'm going to save
this to my camera roll. And then we are two ways
that you can use compose. The world is your oyster. You can actually change
these images even further by using
brushes and effects. Thank you for joining
me in this class. Now let's move on
to less than five.
6. Lesson Five Bonus Tricks and Tips: Welcome to lesson five, bonus tricks and tips. I'm going to take you through other sections of the
eye color on my menu. To deepen your understanding
and usage of the app. We're going to start
off with stamp. First of all, we'll
bring in an image, tap the picture icon,
image from library. And this is the one
we're going to use. Now Press style. Look along the second
menu and to Lucy stamp. As you can see, the image
is changed to a pattern. If you press the window in
the bottom right-hand corner, you will see lots of
different patterns. That's quite nice. Now if we turn the opacity down, you can see it's put
a pattern within the shapes in the
image and the size. And there's lots of different
patterns that you can use. But in this case, we're going to use another
one of my own images. So Presley pitch icon. I'm going to choose this one. Put the opacity. I quite like that. I'm going to press
normal multiply overlay, screen overlay. I like the image
with the overlay. Let's just try the opacity. Just a little bit down. I think. Unlike any of the
other similar menu, similar to this, we
can adjust the size. I'm going to leave the size and you can turn the
angle of the image. I'm going to leave that there. I'm happy with that. And I'm going to press adjust in the upper
right-hand corner. Now, what else can
we do with it? I'm going to go into tone. Pop. I wanted to make it a
bit brighter. The window. Let's just try some of these pop tones.
That's quite good. Number seven, let's go into
normal multiply overlay. I like overlay. So I'm going to again tap the adjustment button in
the top right-hand corner. Now, what can we do? I think we'll go into texture and we going
to choose flares, tap the window, and there's all sorts of different
players. We can use. I quite like that one, but it needs to be moved. So move it with your finger into the top right-hand corner. Now I'm going to spread
it with my fingers there, but we can see little edges. So now we're going to
tap the brush mask on the left-hand side and
just run our finger around the edges and delete there. Now again, I'm going to press the adjustment icon in the
top right-hand corner. Now, is there anything
else we can do with this? I'm going to try. Let's look at Boca one. Okay, We're looking
at number 21. I'm going to spread
it with my fingers. Move it around. Like it's a bit more interest. We'll try the screens. We'll leave it on screen, but I'm going to turn
down the opacity there. That's better. I'm
happy with that, so I'm going to save
it and adjustments. Now we'll just go and
look at the history. The original image, the image
with the pattern applied, with the screen applied. Now we've gone into pop
and change the color. Now we have the flare. And finally, some Boca elements. So I'm completely
happy with that. So I'm going to go into the top right-hand corner and
save it to my camera roll. Now we're going
to look at paint. But first of all, we
have to pause a canvas there so we press
the image icon. And I'm going to choose
white phi by four, which gives us a canvas. Now we're going to go
to brush and paint. This particular brush. I find it's much better to use your finger and
not the apple pen. So let's see what we can do. If we go into the color icon, I'm going to change the
color that I'm going to go to brush and choose a fairly ordinary brush and put the size and cover the page. Now I'm going to go to
color again and choose a different color and
a different brush. With this one. The size that I'm going to stamp
it with my finger. I'm going to change the color and stamp it again. Let's change the
color once more. There. Now I'm going to say
that adjustment. Now let's go into
form and choose plus. Click the window, and we can change the image into
different types of glass. This could be quite
useful for making backgrounds for use in Procreate or other
digital programs. Now I'm going to show you how to use paint in a different way. We're going to bring in a
canvas size five by four. We're going to go
to brush and paint. But this time, instead of using the brush to
color the background, we're going to bring
in our own image. In the bottom right-hand corner. Press the square. And you'll see the
word background. Press the picture icon. And let's bring in
this background. We'll press Apply. And there we have
our own background. Now press the brush icon. And we're going to put
patterns on this background. Change the size. Choose an image, and
press the size writer. Remember to click
off the first image before you choose a second. That's not very good. Let's try another one. There that's better. Now go to the top left-hand side and press clean and
clean off the canvas. Now let's have a look
at some other images. See there's all sorts. Let's clean off the page again. Now staying on
this flower image, we're going to
change the colors. So we're going to color icon, change to any color. Then in the bottom
right-hand corner, we'll press this icon. And if you look down the menu, you will see color variation. That right the way up. And then underneath that
shadows to mess up slightly. It just makes the
image stand out more. Now still, choosing the flower. We'll see as we tap
it, it changes, color, changes at random. Now let's clean the page off and look at
some more brushes. There's writing, cave
drawings, hearts, trees, posters, fancy trees, butterflies, and so on. As you scroll down, you'll even see some figures, icons right at the bottom. I think there we go. You can always incorporate these into a painting.
You already have. We'll use the patterns for pattern-making on
your own background. I think that pretty
much covers it. And remember, you can change
the opacity, the size. We just go back into that other icon and you'll see
you can change everything, their size, opacity, rotation, rotation, variation,
and color and shadows. That pretty much covers
the paints menu. And I think you'll
be able to find some creative uses for it. Open up Eichler armor
again and go to the top left hand corner
and press the picture icon. Bringing an image
from your library. This is a photograph and I'm going to turn it into a sketch. So Press style, sketch,
the window icon. And we're going to
look at number three, which gives us quite
a nice outline. This can save a lot of time for Procreate users who are
using a photograph. For reference. If you go to number four, you'll see it's a little
bit more complex. So I usually use three or four. And when you are happy
with the sketch, you can turn on the
opacity if you want to, but you can do
that in Procreate. So we'll just go
to the adjustment. Save and save the picture. Open up Eichler armor again, tap the picture icon
image from Library. And I'm going to
bring in this image. This is an image I've
painted for an NFT. And it's obviously
a little bit dull, so I want to make it more interesting and
brighten this up. So we're going to go first
into tone and choose pop, because I want to
make it brighter. I quite like the dark one. Let's look at the screens. Press normal. Multiply, overlay. Screen lightened. I like overlay. So now I'm going to save
the adjustment and go to Texture menu along
and find flares. Now, now we're going to look
at the different players. That's quite nice. I'm going
to move it into the corner. Maybe that one or that one. I quite like that to
spread is a little. Then I'm going to go to the
left and choose brush mask. And I'm going to just gently
remove the edge there. Now I'm going to
save the adjustment. And staying on texture. I'm going to put some
Boca on the image. Just to give it a little
bit more interest. That one's quite nice. I'll spread it with my fingers, rotate the brush my scarf, spread it with my fingers. Let's cover the whole thing. Maybe that one,
that one's better. But I'm going to turn
the opacity down. Then I'm going to choose
mask, brush mask, and just remove any that
looks a little bit too much. There. I think that's price and
this image up quite a bit, so I'm going to save that. Now just as a reminder, let's have a look
at the history. The original image
brightened in pop. A flare added, some Boca added. So now I can go to Save Image. And that's it. If you'd like to see my
other creative work, please visit my website,
color story.com. I started my creative journey
writing books and audios, as you can see here. Then I returned to
my first love art and created all kinds of art. Finally, I have 20
years of mind, body, and spirit articles to help my readers navigate
our complex world. I think you'll find it
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