Customize Your Photo Stamp Brushes in Procreate (Quick & Easy!)

1. Intro: Photo Stamps in Procreate #2: Mmm. Hi. I'm Kelley. In my last class, Make Photostamp Brushes In Procreate: A Quick and Easy Tutorial, We created Procreate stamp brushes. This time, we're doing another quick dive into the Brush Studio to make those brushes even more versatile by tweaking rotation, hue, and size, giving you more creative control with just a tap. And as always, I have some class assets for you. We'll explore them in the next lesson. 2. Class Resources: Your Free Assets: Welcome back. You'll receive these free resources for this class. First, you'll receive a leaf stamp brush. We'll duplicate this brush to create new brushes. You'll also receive eight isolated images from my collage kits to use as stamps. You'll also find a natural paper texture in the Class Assets. It's a high quality texture file to add depth and a handcrafted feel to your stamp brushes. But wait, there's more. You'll get a step by step guide to adjusting Brush Studio settings for rotation, hue and size. Next, let's head into the Brush Studio and explore how to give your stamp brushes some fun variations. 3. Adjusting Jitter for Rotation & Direction: Welcome back. In this lesson, we will set up our canvas and then we'll adjust some settings under Shape in the Brush Studio. Let's get started. We'll create a new canvas for our brushes. You want a large size. So let's do a 12 by 12 inch. I'm hitting Plus and Folder, and I'm labeling this "Brush Making Canvas." We can use one canvas throughout the class, and I am changing it to inches, and I am changing it to 12 by 12. You want a square canvas with a white background for stamps. So I'm going to hit Create, and here it is. I'll be using this cat throughout the class. You can use any isolated image that you would like. So here's my cat. I want only the cat and not the background, so I'm just going to copy the cat layer, and I am going to go to the Brush Making Canvas, and I am going to hit Paste. And here is our cat. She's from my Collage Fusion Collage Kit, and we want to make her black and white for our stamp. The first thing I am going to do is desaturate her; Magic Wand, Hue, Saturation and Brightness; bring the Saturation all the way down. And then we go back to Magic Wand, Curves. I'm doing all these steps pretty quickly because I went over them in my first class, but we are on Gamma, and I create three points, and I just kind of move them around looking for maximum contrast. We want a sharp image with a lot of contrast between the white and the black. And you can tap Preview if you want to see. This is before, This is after. Before, and After. I think that looks pretty good. I'm going to hit Apply. We're going to do a Three Finger Drag Down and hit Copy All, so we copy both the cat and the background. And here is the set that I gave you in the class resources. It is a leaf stamp that I made. So what I'm going to do is Duplicate this, tap on it, hit Shape, hit Edit, and then import the cat by hitting Paste. And here's the cat. She looks like a photo negative. That is good. So I'm going to go back and name her "Cat." Let's grab the subtle paper texture from the Class Resources. It's right here, and I'm going to Copy the layer and go back into my brush stamp. And I'm going to hit Paste. And I'm going to bring that to the bottom. You don't want to use any texture when you're actually making a stamp, like when we imported the cat image. But what we're doing for the rest of the class is just tweaking settings on the brush so we can use this paper texture. Let's look at where our cat brush is right now. We can stamp it. We can make it smaller. We can change the color. You'll notice here that she's always standing up straight and there's no variation unless we tweak the size and color ourselves, but that will change as we go on in class. So here we have our cat brush, and I'm going to Duplicate it, and I'm going to call this one "Cat Scatter." And I'm just going to tap some cats around here and I'm going to adjust the Scatter so you can see what happens when we're adjusting the Scatter. Let's just bring the Scatter to about 100%. If you ever want to clear your Drawing Pad here, you can tap here and hit Clear Drawing Pad. And so anyway, here's our cat scattered at 100%. We are also going to go to About This Brush, and Create New Reset Point. I'm also going to quickly personalize this by adding my photo. There's a picture, and I can write my name. You can sign it, or you can just do a little heart like I do. So here is our Cat Scatter. You could use this technique for creating a pattern of scattered cats, but let's give it even more variation. Let's go back into the Brush Studio and go to Shape. And let's go to, I'm just going to put some things on here so we can see it, Randomized. So when you have Flip X and Flip Y toggled on, it will give even more variation to the cat, changing its orientation vertically and horizontally. Let's go take a look. So here is our flipped and randomized cat. And if we compare that to the first set of cats, I'm not sure it looks incredibly more randomized, but apparently it is. We are going to rename this brush to "Cat Scatter, Random, Flipped. So we have the maximum rotation variation with this cat. Let's take a quick break. In the next lesson, we are going to give our cat stamp a little variation in color and size. I will see you in the next lesson. 4. Hue & Size Variations in Brush Studio: Welcome back. Did you know that you can change the color of your stamp brush? Well now you do, and you're going to learn how to do it. So we're going to take our Cat Scatter, and I'm going to hit Create New Reset Point. I don't know if I did that, and I am going to Duplicate that. And we are going to call this brush "Cat Scatter and Hue." And we are going to go to Color Dynamics, and we are going to go to Stamp Color Jitter, and we are going to change the Hue. Let's start with 25%. And you can't see hue changes here. So we are going to go back to our Canvas. I have this gold color selected, and you can see here that it is changing the hue slightly. And it is still randomized and scattered. And it's at 25%. If we wanted a more drastic color change, we could bring it to anywhere. Let's go to Max. Okay, so I have this gold color selected. We have cat scatter and hue, and it's 100%. So we have more variation in the color of our cats. But if we change to a different color, let's go to this teal color to start. We will have a cat variation in colors, but it will look a little bit different than here because we started out with a different color. So you can play with different effects. Let's do orange and a new layer. Oh, that gets some pretty funky things. I think it has to do with how bright the color is among other things. Let's try this turquoise. Yeah, a brighter color will yield brighter colors, a less saturated color will yield less saturated colors, and so on. So there is our Cat Scatter and H ue. I generally like it at around 25% because I like my hues to be similar to each other, but it depends on the effect you're going for. And so I'm going to go to About This Brush, hit Create a New Reset Point, and Save. We have one last quick adjustment to make, and that is changing the size variety of the stamp. So we are going to take Cat Scatter and Hue, Duplicate and we are going to rename this brush "Cat Scatter, Hue, Size." And we are going to go to Dynamics and Jitter, Size, and I will make it the max difference, and let's go into here. And here we have a large variety of cat sizes. I don't know if you would really want that much variety in general. Let's bring it back to, like, 32%. And add a new layer, we'll grab a new color, purple. And here is cats that have a variety of sizes, but it's not as dramatic as the other one. So that is how you can create variety in rotation, size and color in your Procreate stamps. And this isn't just for photos. I'm going to show you real quick how to do this with a shape. I'm going to grab the Monoline that was in your class set, and I'm going to draw a star. Quick Shape on, so it's helping me. That looks fine. We'll fix it later, but I'm just going to drop the colors. So I have black in there, and I'm going to continue filling. So here we go. I can see that there's a little leak here. These aren't connected, so the color would have leaked out there. So, here we have a star. It's not the greatest star. That's okay. We're going to hit Erase, and we're going to use the same brush to clean it up. I have to remind myself that creating a perfect star is not the point here. It's teaching you how to make a star brush. So here we have an okay looking star. I am going to stretch it out, and I am going to center it. And here we are. I am going to hit Copy All. Oops, but you know what I need to do first? I need to turn off this paper background. Because otherwise, we'd have a subtle square around here. So we have a white background, and I'm going to hit Copy All because we do want the background with this. I'm going to Duplicate the last cat, and I'm going to go in here and change the shape to the star by going to Shape, Edit, Import, Paste. And here we have our hand drawn star. And I'm going to rename this "Star Scatter, Hue, Size." I'm going to Create a New Reset Point. I'm going to hit Save, and we are going to see what our star brush looks like. I am going to grab a yellow color. So here is our star, and it has the variation in hue, size and rotation. So you could use this to make a nice starry night. We could put a blue background behind there and make it look real dreamy. You can use these brushes for a template to create anything with any kind of shape, whether it's a hand drawn image or a photograph or anything else that you can dream up. So now it is your turn to share your work. You can start with a leaf brush from the Class Assets or a brush that you made from the last class and change the hue, size, or rotation of it, and then share your new stamp variations in the Project Gallery. Thank you so much for joining me today, and I hope to see you soon.