Curve Text in Procreate with the Quick & Easy Liquid Method

1. Intro: Hi there. Do you want to learn a quick and easy way to curb text in Procreate? Then you're in the right place within Procreate, there aren't as many ways to move text into different shapes as there are in other apps like Photoshop, but it can be done. I'll show you a simple way to curb your text using the liquefy option that only takes a few minutes. Once you get good at this, you can probably do it in seconds. I'm Laura Irgang, an artist and teacher living in Lonok, Texas. I illustrate books, paint murals and have work in galleries. I created the comic strips Glitterville and Greg, and I'm a member of the Texas cartoonists. I co illustrated the book Knit Strips, the world's first comic strip knitting book. I teach, talk about art on panels, and work as a presenter at literary festivals. I also teach classes on painting and creativity. In my previous text class, I showed you four ways to give your handwriting structure and procreate. Now I'm going to help you expand your text skills. I'll show you how to take your text and curb it. Using the liquefy function is fun, and it's super fast. It's great for simple text curving like you'd see on a greeting card or a gift bag. This method isn't hard, but it's not always intuitive to find these tools without a little help. So join me for this quick tutorial on curving text, and I'll show you how to do it. 2. Getting Started: All right, open your Procreate app. In the upper right corner, you'll see a plus sign. Click that and select New Canvas. It has a little folder icon. Select the width option. I want this to be eight by 10 ", so I'm going to come down here to the lower left and choose inches. I'll start with the width measurement at ten and I'm done. Now go up to Hitus and I'm going to type eight. It shows me how many DPI and layers I get and that all looks fine. Now I'll click Create. I like to use two fingers to pinch and zoom in and out a little to be sure I'm seeing all of the outside of this canvas area. You don't have to do that, but that's something I like to do. Now we're going to add your template in the background for the first project, the liquefy project. Download it to your device. It's under resources. The first one we'll use is the blue ribbon. We'll go to the actions tool bar up here, click on Insert a photo and select your image. There you go. Now, click to unselect the Transform to a bar. 3. Liquify: Here's a quick tip. If you want your text to be a color, then select it now in the color tool. I want to use this darkest blue, so I'm going to hold my finger down and slide it. See if I'm in the yellow, you see it if I'm in the blue, it selects wherever you slide your finger. I'm going to hold my finger down in the darkest blue area and lift up. I should see that color up here. You could also click the color selection tool and choose a dark blue color. You can select anything in that color range. There are other ways to do it. You can click on disk and choose from here, but I prefer the classic one where you slide your colors from here and then choose one. Now unselect the color tool. That will be the color of our text. Now to start, we'll go up to our actions tool bar. That's the one that looks like a wrench. We'll click it and select Add Tech. Next. There we go. I'm going to type on this keyboard option by clicking Show Keyboard. Double click the arrow for all caps and type congratulations. I'll show you a few quick and easy ways to set up the font and the size of your text. I'm going to take the blue dot here and pull it to the side so I can see all of my text on one line. Click the keyboard to remove it. Now, I'm going to click on the word inside the box three times with my finger. Triple click the text three times, one, two, three, you have to do it fast. That brings up a bunch of options. This is the font option, select that and scroll through here. There are all kinds of different fonts available. I'm going to pick, let's see. I'll pick Impact. Once you select a font, you can see that there are lots of different style choices here like regular, italic light, medium, bold and all the stylistic choices you'll find right here. Now, going back over to font, I'm going to make sure I click Impact and I'll leave it at regular. Now, there's another helpful option you can use to help you get the size you want. You can type in your exact size, but it's easier for me to just look at the screen and slide left to right and say, that's too small, that's too big. I'm trying to make the text slightly larger than the ribbon. For me, that's somewhere around 65 or so. Another really helpful thing is an option called kerning, the second choice on the design menu. This controls the spacing between the letters. Have you ever noticed that sometimes when you make letters bigger or smaller, they are either too smushed together or too far apart? Well, you can use the kerning tool to separate them more or to cram them closer together. I'm going to eyeball it. That looks about right. I'm going to leave all of the other options alone and click Done. I want to move the text. It's not quite centered. I'll click it and the shape around it is called the bounding box. You'll see that sometimes when you change your font style or size, it will get too big and stack the text on top of itself and you don't want that. If you have two words, it's fine, but we want a single line, click on one of these blue anchor points and slide it over. You can use either side then ops. I'm going to undo that by tapping once with two fingers. That's how to undo a mistake. Now, I want to move it. I'm going to click on this menu and center it over the ribbon. Now unclick this toolbar. We want to rasterize your text so we can manipulate it. Click on the layers toolbar, then click the text layer one time. Now come over to this menu to the left and choose Rasterize. You have to choose this so we can use the liquefy option. Now, unclick layers. By the way, you need to make sure it's selected. It should be blue. Now we're going into the adjustments tool bar and click Liquefy. Come down to the size option on the lower left. You can experiment with the different sizes. Today, I'll choose about 70% and I want the option called push. You'll know you have an option selected at any time because it will turn blue. If I choose twirl right, that choice becomes blue, but I don't want that, go back to push and when you click, it turns blue. This is the fun part. Place your pencil above the letters and pull down to move the text. Then place your pencil above the letters and make upward movements to curve it upward. It's pretty intuitive. Play around with it until you're happy. Y. 4. Share Your Project: Projects and Resources within the main class screen. It looks the same for all the classes. Then click Create Project. It's that green button on the right. Then you have a few things to fill out, upload your image, then choose a title, and you can write a project description. You can add more images or a video if you want. Then in the upper right hand corner, there's the green button called Publish. Click it, click it, click it. Click it. Thank you, everybody. I'll see you next time. Bye.