Fun With Collage in Procreate: Pair Vintage People With Your Favorite Quote

1. Hello & Welcome!: Are you ready for your next creative adventure? In this class, we'll explore digital collage while expanding your procreate skills. By the end of this class, you'll have a unique piece of art that pairs of beautiful vintage image with your favorite quote or song lyric. Hi, I'm Kelly Brian Burke. I quit my corporate management job in 2015. I've been fully self-employed as an artist ever since. In 2017, I fell in love with creating digital art with the Procreate app. I use procreate to create collage art that I sell online and in venues around Minneapolis and St. Paul. For this class, I'll be using my iPad, the Procreate app, and my Apple Pencil, regardless of where you're at with Procreate, I'll walk you through every step I take. Well, I create two different collages with cool vintage images. The two collages have two totally different vibes. One feature is a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the other one feature is a quote from an eighties pop song. Throughout the class, we'll explore tools and techniques to expand your Procreate knowledge, including sourcing and isolating free images for collage, using texts and procreate easy highlights and shadows and lots more procreate tips and tricks. I've assembled some awesome class resources to support you, including procreate brushes, stamps, and isolated images ready to collage. Are you ready to explore your creativity and the procreate app? Let's get started. 2. Class Project and Resources : During the class, I'll create two different collages, that pair of vintage person with text. Well, I'm creating, think about what you want to create. It could be something that's just plain fun or something that sparks an emotion in you, like love, sadness, or grief together we'll look at inspiration for your quote and image. We'll explore two different ways of isolating images from their backgrounds. Then I'll create two different minimalists collages. For each collage, we'll add the image and then the text. Then we'll explore some finishing details to elevate your piece, including Procreate color tools such as hue, saturation, and brightness. To support you, I've compiled lots of class resources. These include a Pinterest board full of short quotes and lyrics for inspiration. My own collection of over 3 thousand freely usable vintage images will find these images on the commons in Flickr. But wait, there's more. There are free assets and the class project area, including procreate brushes, stamps, background textures, and isolated images ready to collage. If you'd like, even more free, procreate collage assets. Check out the resources for my collage prompts class on Skillshare that has over 50 free resources for collage. After you have your completed collage, you'll want to share it, right? I've created a bonus lesson on re-sizing completed canvases and procreate will re-size are 12 by 16 print for different uses, including a square for Instagram or a tall 1920 by 1080 pixel image for reals or stories on Instagram. Speaking of sharing, I would love to see your work. Work that my students share on Skillshare always inspires me and I love to see it. I'll leave a comment back for every student project. Are you ready to take the first step? Download the class resources here. As of now, the resources are only available when accessing Skillshare through your browser, not the Skillshare app. Next, we'll explore inspiration for your quote or song lyric. I will see you in the next lesson. 3. Find the Perfect Quote : Welcome back. In this lesson we are going to look at inspiration for some fun quotes and sayings that we could use with our collage. So I've created a Pinterest board. It has over 1 thousand quotes, and it's right here. And I'll have that linked in the class project description as well. Within this larger quote board, I have a board with shorter quotes. And for this class, I would encourage you to consider a shorter quote or saying, here is the board. And just a quick word about quotes for this class, I'm going to assume that you are using these quotes for your own personal use. And if you are going to monetize your piece somehow, that you would do your due diligence and make sure that the quote are saying that you're using is not copyrighted and that it's freely usable. Let's look at the quotes here. There's some here that I can see fitting with a vintage photo really well. And I'll just kinda point those out as we go through. There's this one says it's by Dr. Seuss. Y fit in when you were born to stand out. I could see that with a really quirky looking vintage woman. I think that would be fun. I like this quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson. I could see this quote paired with a BCCI vintage person, or people live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. This is a quote by an author that I really liked. Daniela port. What you celebrate expands. I could see that with a fun party picture. This one would be perfect to spend your life doing strange things with weird people. There's an abundance of photos of people doing strange things with weird people on the Internet. Okay. What else do we have here? This is lovely. You had the power all along my dear from the Wizard of Oz. And let's just look at a couple more. This one would be perfect. It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. A quote by E ********. And let's end with this quote by norepinephrine, above all, be the heroine of your life and not the victim. I could see that paired with a really strong looking vintage woman. Also to support you, I will have an attached PDF in the class project gallery, and it will have a variety of quotes that you could choose from. Feel free to use any of the quotes that I have saved in my Pinterest board, or to choose your own favorite quote or a motto. These are just resources for you to get some inspiration. In the next lesson, we will look at resources for finding those vintage photos. I will see you in the next lesson. 4. Source Vintage Images on Flickr: Welcome back. In the last lesson, we are looking at inspiration for quotes to pair with our vintage images. And in this lesson, we will look at my favorite resource for vintage images, Flickr.com. Here is flicker. It's the homepage. And what we're looking for within Flickr are photos that have no known copyright restrictions. So let me show you how to access those. We would tap on Explore, and then we would tap on the commons. And then rather searching in this box up here, we would search in this lower box that says Search the commons. And that's how we would find the photos that have no known copyright restrictions. So let's just search for friends here. There was a lot of quotes about friends that we could use are celebrating or having fun. So let's see what kind of photos we can access about friends. Here you'll find two different sets of results. This first one is from people that I follow and that has almost 2 thousand results. And then from all of the results, there are over 3 thousand photos. So let's just go down to all of the results and let's just see what catches our eye here. I like this photo of these three women's me. It looks like they're plotting to get out of a total party. And if we wanted to use this photo, we could. It says it has no known copyright restrictions and to download it, we would tap that arrow right there. And these are our options and this is fairly common. The largest photo is about 1 thousand pixels by 800 pixels. That's not huge, but the quality of the photo is good and it's totally usable when you have these vintage photos, sometimes part of the charm is the vintage look of them. If we wanted to download that, we could tap here and download it and then it goes right into your files. Let's go back to the search by tapping up here. Let's look for more pictures of friends. This again, no known copyright restrictions. It says it's the Mennonite Church that they're playing. It's kinda hard for me to see what's going on here, but it's cute. There is also a number of photos here when we search friends showing people in their pets. So that would be fun. Paired with a quote about dogs being a woman's best friend or something like that. This photo would be a fun photo. This photo is from the Library of Congress, and again, it has no known copyright restrictions. That's what we're looking for. The Library of Congress has something unique within the comments. And that is that they offer higher resolution images available off the site. So you tap right here. And then you can see here that there's different sizes. In this case, there's three different sizes available. For this one, I'm going to download the JPEG that is about 100 kilobytes. So if I tap on that, it'll download. And here it is. And to save it, I would just tap right here. And I could save it to my files. And I'm just going to show you my galleries within Flickr because that's a fun place to look for images that I've already curated. I'll have this linked within the class project description. But this is me and I have galleries of groups. I have two galleries of the Library of Congress, some from my other tutorials, ephemera and all sorts of images. So I have spent a lot of time curating these images from Flickr and the 99.5% of them, I would say 99.9% of them are freely usable. So now that we've explored flicker and the commons, we are going to explore one more site that has cool vintage images that are freely usable and that is Wikipedia Commons. I will see you in the next lesson. 5. Source Vintage Images on Wikipedia: Welcome back. In the last lesson, we looked at sourcing vintage images on Flickr.com. And now we're going to look at another resource for vintage photos, Wikipedia commons. One of the searches that I really like within Wikipedia is publicity stills. Within the search you'll find a lot of beautiful images. So one thing to know about Wikipedia Commons is within images, we want to look at licenses. And there are different licenses. Some of these photos you can use with attribution. That means you just need to credit the source and specific ways. I tend not to use those because I want to have a library of images that are freely usable. I don't want to wonder whether something is really usable or not. So I will always go for the no restrictions within Wikipedia Commons. And there are plenty of fun photos to work with here. Let's find a photo that we might want to use within a collage. This is a cute one. It's two women dancing. Let's click on this one and see what we can learn within the comments. You want to tap on more details at the bottom of the photo. And it will often tell you a little bit of information, and this is from the Netherlands. And if we wanted to download it, we would tap Download. And it gives us some different options for sizes. Again, I often go for one that's about 2 thousand by 2 thousand pixels. So I tap on that and then I tap right here and hit save to files. And one of the things I like about Wikipedia Commons, it will often give me information about the photo within my files. It'll retain the title. If you save something to your camera roll, it won't do that. Let's tap Save. It turns out I've already downloaded this, so I will just hit Replace. That's fine. Another search that I like in Wikipedia Commons is silent film. And that will give us some similar kinds of images as the publicity stills. So here are some relief fund photos. This is a great one. I have used this woman in a collage before. I like her a lot. So if we wanted to download her, we would go to more details and we would tap Download and then it would give us the images available. So if I wanted to tap Download again, we would do that in exactly the same way we did before. So that is a nice, big, clear photo for us to use. Here's another beautiful image. Nancy Nash, also a silent film actress because I searched silent film, right? So we're going to tap on more details and we could download her as well by tapping on the image that's about 2 thousand pixels. Now that we've sourced some cool vintage images and we've sourced quotes. Let's go into procreate and find out how we can isolate these images from the background. I will see you in the next lesson. 6. Isolate Elements in Procreate: Welcome back. So far, we have looked for inspiration, for fun quotes and sayings. We've sourced some lovely vintage photos. And now we are going to isolate those photos from the background using Procreate. Let's walk through that together. I'm going to tap Import and I'm gonna find a photo that I downloaded. I believe this one is from Wikipedia Commons. She's really cool. I could see pairing her with a quote about being unique or fashionable, that kind of thing. The photo could use a little bit of help and let me show you a couple of tricks that I use here. One of the things I like to do with almost all of my vintage photos is to apply curves. I'm going to tap magic wand curves. And then I get this new graph at the bottom. And you want to make sure it's on gamma rather than a specific colors. Gamma is all of the colors. And then what I'm gonna do is just tap towards the top of that angled line and then pull it up, down and then watch what it's doing to the photo. In the meantime, we don't want to pull it down. You can see that's darkening it. But if we pull it up, you can see a lot of detail more clearly. Like if you look at her skirt and her face. And we could tap on the screen and procreate will allow us to preview the changes. So that was what it looked like before and this is what it looked like after. So I'm going to apply that. And what I'm also going to do is tap towards the bottom of this angled line and play with that. If I bring it down, we lose some of the details. If I bring it back up, I think we're gaining some more details. And let's tap again on the screen and preview. That's a subtle change. So this is before and this is after. It's a subtle change, but I like it. So I'm going to tap apply that made a dramatic change to our photo over all. For example, if I wanted to add it back in, we'll see here this was the photo before and this is after. If we zoom in, so before and after, and that's just from using curves. The next thing I'm gonna do is I'm going to crop the Canvas, so I'm going to drag these. And so we just have the woman and a little bit of space around her. And that just makes it just a tiny bit easier to isolate. Now I'm going to hit done. The next thing we're gonna do is we're going to isolate her from her background. I'm gonna go to magic wand. I'm on free hand. I'm also on Add. So I'm going to remove the background while keeping her and let me show you what I mean. I'm just going to trace around here, just inside and I want to capture as much as I can of her while eliminating the background. And I can do that by using a combination of tracing along with taps if we have a straight line. So let me show you what I mean when I get to that. So her nose is pretty straight, so I can just go like that and make a straight line. This is straight. And so I can just tap to make that line. So now I'm reaching my original circle. I close that off and you can see those diagonal lines, everything that we haven't selected. I'm gonna do a three-finger drag down to get our copy and paste menu. And I'm going to cut the area that we don't want. What I'm going to do is fill a layer with a color that's different. I'm going to use this light blue. It doesn't matter, it's not permanent, just has to be different from the photo. Then we can see we did indeed separate this woman from her background. It just didn't look like it because both backgrounds were white. So I'm going to keep going I'm going to keep tracing around her. I want to make sure I'm on the right layer. I'm not on the blue, I'm on the layer with her. So I go to Magic Wand, free hand and I keep tracing. I have those diagonal lines, three-finger, drag down, cut and paste. There is the cut area. So I'm gonna delete that. And we're just going to keep going in the same fashion around her. I will start with her hat. And it's kinda hard to see what the background is here and what her head is. I'm just going to make my best guess. Okay. We've reached the bottom of her skirt, so I am going to go back around and look for that original circle, do another cut and paste and delete that white background and keep going. Okay, So now let's zoom out. We've almost trace fully around her. I'm just going to finish up tracing around her glove in her hand. And let's just wrap right around here to that original dot cut and paste. This is the part that we cut. And now we can see what we have here. So if we zoom in, there might be a few areas that we want to clean up. This is pretty clean. Right here. I might want to erase a little bit. I use a default Procreate brush as an eraser, tap on eraser. I tap on airbrushing and then I find the medium hard airbrush and I just clean it up a little. I'm happy with how that looks. And what I'm gonna do next is turn off this blue layer, then turn off the white background layer and just take another look. Because things will look a little bit different with different colored background. Her thumb looks a little oddly big here. When you're doing this, you can be as picky or as imprecise as you would like to be. I think that looks good. And to save her without the background so we can use it when this is on there. And you saved it, it would be like a photo with a white background. When you toggle that off and save it as a PNG. By going to wrench share PNG, I'm going to hit Save. And we're gonna go into the files real quick and see what that looks like. Here she is in the files. When you tap on the photo, you can see that there's a black background. So we saved her correctly as a PNG. And this again is the original. So now we have both images available to use. We have our original image. This is the on brightened one and now are isolated PNG. Now that we've explored how to isolate an image in Procreate, I am going to show you quickly how you would isolate an image using Canvas. And I'll talk about the pros and cons of each of those in the next lesson. I will see you then. 7. Isolate Elements in Canva: Welcome back. In the last lesson, we reviewed how to isolate an image from its background in Procreate, and now we're going to quickly do it in Canva. Canva is graphic design, website and app. I love to use it for isolating photos. And there's some photos that I prefer to isolate and Canva. And let me give you an example of that. So let's start by tapping create a design. I am just going to choose a poster here because it's the largest format. It's 18 by 11 inches or something like that. So let's tap Upload Media and go to our files and find a picture that we can isolate from the background. Let's use this woman right here. She's also from Wikipedia Commons, so it takes just a second to upload there. And once she's uploaded, we can bring her into our canvas. And then we tap Edit Image, and we tap background remover. And what that will do then is isolate her from her background and that takes just a second. So here she is and she's isolated from her background. And you can see that Canva did a pretty good job here. There are some areas that I might want to delete in Procreate, but overall it looks pretty good. And I can send her directly to Procreate by tapping this arrow right here. And the important part is to hit save with transparency. And then that will send her right into Procreate. Since I don't need to keep her. I am just going to hit this little trash can and remove her. And then I'm going to show you Marilyn Monroe real quick. So I am going to again hit Edit image and hit background remover. We are going to remove her from her background. It's kinda hard to see what's going on here with the white background. So let's bring her into Procreate by tapping that arrow again and save with transparency and bring her into procreate. And let's take a look at those two. They have uploaded in to Procreate and here is Maryland. What I am going to do is fill the background with a dark color that will contrast with her light hair. And I'm going to bring that down below her. This is where Canva really shines. She has all these little baby hairs like people do. And if we were isolating that in Procreate, we would have a really hard time doing that. Our best hope would be to cut the little baby hairs out and then draw them in. But that never looks as natural as this does. So that's really amazing how it did that. Canva works really well for things like that. Let's see how it did with this other woman. Let's give her a different colored background as well so we can see her more clearly. Here we have a sepia image and she doesn't have a whole lot of baby hairs, but you can see that Canva maintain that little halo of hair around there. Again, that would have been difficult to do in procreate. This is a sepia image, but if we tap on her and we want her to be black and white as well, we could duplicate the original, bring that down below the color and turn it off. And now we are on this top layer. We can go to Magic Wand hue saturation and brightness. Saturation is automatically at 50 and we just drag it down to none. And there we have a black and white image. I often do that with my sepia toned images. And then I'll look at what I might want to clean up. And all I would really want to clean up here is this dark area here. So again, I would grab the eraser, medium hard airbrush and just clean up those dark areas there. So again, if you would want to use this picture as a PNG, you would turn the background layer off. And you would turn the white background layer off and you would hit Wrench, Share and PNG. So we would save the photo without the image with it. I can also save it to my camera roll. And what it looks like there is you would just tap on it and again, the whole image would be black if it was successfully saved in the background. As opposed to this image where if you tap on it, you can see it has a white background with it. So that is how you can easily isolate images from their background in Canva. Unfortunately, that is a paid part of Canvas. You have to have a Canva Pro membership in order to use that. For me, the paid membership is worth it because I am often eliminating the background on items. If you don't have a paid membership for Canva, you can also use the procreate isolation method that we explored in the last lesson. In the next lesson, we are going to start creating our collage. I will see you then. 8. Drink the Wild Air Collage : Welcome back. Now that we've reviewed how to source your images and how to isolate your images. In the previous lessons, we are ready to create our first collage. So let's get started. I'm in Procreate and I'm going to tap this plus sign. And I'm going to create a new canvas. And I'm going to change the pixels to inches. And I am going to do a 12 by 16. So here is our new canvas. I always start with a paper at background texture, so I'm going to bring that in from my camera roll. I'm going to go into wrench, add, insert a photo albums, and I have some textures here. I'll share a subtle paper texture with you in the resources section. So you can do this too. It just gives it a little teeny tiny bit of texture. If you zoom in here, you can see that it's just a really subtle texture. Okay, for the first step here, I'm going to add the text and procreate the quote I'm using for this first collage is by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and it is on my Pinterest board. I also have it on Good Reads here. I'm just going to copy and paste the text to pop it into Procreate. And let's go into procreate. And then what I'm going to do is tap wrench and add text. And I have a dark color here. That's great. I'm going to use a default font that comes with procreate. It's called American typewriter. And I'm choosing that one because I liked the typewritten look with the vintage photos. And I'm also choosing it because it has a series of different options. Regular, semi bold, bold, etc. I'm just gonna go with the regular for now and we might want to change that later. So I am going to delete the text and press down here. And then tap Paste. Now that we have our quote here, I want to get it arranged the way I want it. Let me show you what I mean. So I'm gonna go to Edit text and I'm going to have the words broken up into chunks. So I might want it to be live and then in the sunshine, so I'm bringing that together. I'm going to stretch this box so we have more room for it, but I don't want it off the page. Live in the sunshine. Swim this C, drink the wild air. I think I might want it in five different boxes on the page. I think I might want it like that. What I do to start is I have the words, the largest, I think I could possibly want them because then I can scale down from there, but I don't want to take small text and then make it larger. It's the same concept as for images. So let me just make it a tiny bit bigger by tapping on that arrow and then dragging the box that way. Here we have our words. And I'm going to add a new layer here. And I'm just going to bring in a blue because I am going to be creating off white text boxes for these. So I'm gonna go back to the quote, tap Edit text. I want to select all the text. I have the text selected. And then I'm going to tap this AAA. And it gives me some options here. Like I said, I could make the text semi bold, bold, condensed, condensed, bold condensed light. You get the idea. I'm going to stick with regular for now. And some of the things you can do with texts and Procreate would be helpful here. Like you can adjust the letting. And that is the amount of the space between each line of text. As you can see here, you could make them really close together or further apart. For our purposes, we would like the text to be far apart. So I have increased the letting to about 24 points. Now that we've done that, I think it's time for me to rasterize my texts and I will show you what I mean by that. I'm on this text layer and I'm going to hit Duplicate when it's texts. I'm just going to turn off this bottom layer. It is editable. I can keep typing anything I want. It is more than just pixels on the page. It's editable text. If I don't want it to be editable texts anymore than I would rasterize it and I'll show you what that will do. I've turned off the text layer and I'm going to tap on Rasterize. And you can see here that it looks different and the layers right away. So if I have them on top of each other, it just looks the same. But this one is still an editable box. And you can see that because there's an a right there, this one just becomes pixels on the page. We can't edit it anymore. So whenever I'm working with texts in Procreate. Before a rasterize it, I always duplicate it because I always want an editable version ready to go. Because sometimes I might want to do a do over. So I'm just going to tuck that in the background. I like to have a background layer where I have my texture and then I took away any things that I don't want scene below my layer. So I'll just label that background. So now I'm going to create the rectangle that will be below. The words. Reminds me of like refrigerator magnets. If you remember those, I think they still exist. So I'm choosing an off white color here. I'm going to arrow and I'm going to navigate to this ribbon. And I'm going to tap rectangle and my selections down here, our ad and color fill. So if I tap on the screen, I can create a rectangle and it will automatically fill with the color I have here. And then I'm going to make the text box fit the word. So if I go to this arrow, I'm on free form. And when you're on free form, you can change a box like by making it longer and then taller. If you are on uniform, you would be changing the box in a uniform way. For our options. We do want free form and we want to bring this in. I think that looks good. And I'm going to turn snapping and magnetics on. And the other settings here are 28.74. That will just help us center it. So we have our first text box. I'm going to duplicate that. I'm going to navigate to the duplicated one underneath. I'm going to go to this arrow and I'm going to bring it down to this text box. And I'm going to use the free form again to make a box to contain our text. And then I'm gonna do it again. I have a new box, I'm bringing it down. I am using free form to adjust the size of the box and I'm just going to keep going in that fashion. So that looks good. And what we have now is our rasterized quote and the different layers underneath it. And we are going to pair the words with a specific layer. So to do that, I'm going to tap on the Magic Wand. And before I was using rectangle and now I want to use free hand. I'm going to circle the first word, live. Drag three fingers down to invoke the copy paste menu, and I'm going to choose cut and paste. What I've done now is that live is on its own layer. And I want to group live the word live with a textbox that goes with it. So what I did was I swiped left on both of them and then I formed the group. So live is now paired with a rectangle below it. Let's go back and we're going to keep going. We're back to the rasterize texts layer magic wand. And now I want to do a freehand selection of. 9. Collage Composition and Layout: Welcome back. So obviously the quotes too big right now we're just going to turn that off. I want the women to be a little bit taller so they fill the frame a little bit more. If I bring the quote up here, there's just a lot of quote visually and not a lot of people. So what I'm gonna do is show you a little trick I use. I am going to duplicate the layer of the women. I'm going to move them up and then we have the duplicate layer underneath it. So I'm on the duplicate layer. I'm going to tap this arrow and I'm going to rotate it few times. I want to match it up. So it's kind of mirrored. So the other thing I want to do is flip horizontal. I don't want the whole mirror image of the women. So what I'm gonna do is pinch these two layers together. And then I'm going to tap on this arrow and I'm going to bring the women down here. So now what we have is just the appearance of a little bit more water. Now I think the composition will be a little bit more balanced between the words and the women. Now let's go back and look at our quote. Words are as big as I would want them to be. So I'm going to further collapse the images to make it easier to work with. But first I'm going to take all of these quote layers, duplicate them again. I'm going to take the original and tuck it in the background. And then I'm gonna go to each of these quote layers and flatten them so the words are merged with the box layer. And before you do this, you want to make sure the words that this text layer and the words and everything are the exact color that you want it. Because it's less easy to manipulate after you've merged the things. But I think it looks good for me. So what I'm gonna do is tap on this live flatten. So now we just have that word. And I could also do it this way. I am on the Sunshine Group and I'm going to tap, flatten, swim the sea, flatten, drink, flatten, wild air, flattened. And so what I want to do here is emphasize the words that are the most compelling are the most important to the image. So we have live here and I might keep that this size it is, I might make in the sunshine just a little bit smaller. And to do that, I'm tapping this arrow and I'm on uniform. I wanna be on uniform for this not free form. I just made that a little bit smaller. I think I want drink to be smaller too. So I'm tapping on that layer and making drink a little bit smaller. And I think I want all of them to be a little bit smaller overall. So I'm going to tap on the grouping that's labeled quote, and I'm going to tap on that arrow and I'm an uniform again. I'm just going to make them all a little bit smaller in uniform. I think I want lived to be a little bit smaller. And just move it over there. I'm going to pause from that for one moment. And I think this could use a son. And I'm going to add that in. I'm just going to choose warm yellow. I'm going to go to a mono line brush. I will give you a monoline brush in the set of brushes for the class, just so you have it handy when I'm doing a project, I like to have all of my brushes together. I'm going to draw a circle for the sun and for some just going to turn off the quotes. And I want to be on the layer above the blue. So I'm doing a new layer above the blue. And I am drawing a circle. I'm going to tap Edit Shape and tap Circle. That color is okay for now. We might want to tweak it a little bit. Yeah, I'll have it be like that for now. If you're not in love with the colors you've chosen right now, no worries, we'll be tweaking them in the end. So now we have all of our elements here. The next steps are to adjust the quote a little bit more and then give it some finishing touches. I will see you in the next lesson where we will start playing with our quotes position. 10. Resize and Tilt Text Boxes: Welcome back. We are going to tweak our quote a little bit more. So I think I want swim this c to be a little bit smaller. I'm just going to play with that. I'm on the swim the C layer, tapping on this arrow. I'm on uniform and make it just a little bit smaller. And I'll leave the wild air big. And what I'm gonna do now, I'd like to rotate the words around to give it more organic effect. So I'm on live. I'm going to tap on this arrow. If you see this green nodule up here, you can twist it around in different ways. So it'll twist starting in 15 degree increments. And you can go either way. Another way to twist it more subtly is to tap on the green dot and bring up this. And so if I do say five, it just tilted it five degrees to the left. If I wanted to tilt it five degrees to the right, then I would hit Minus and it would tilt the other way. But for now I'm gonna go back to plus, and it's tilting up five degrees. And I might want that a little smaller still. Let's see. We have in the sunshine. Next, I am going to tilt that say three degrees down. So three minus subtle tilt down. And we don't have to again, be married to any of this. We're just, we're just playing around now. Swim the sea. Now I'm going to keep that straight. I'm going to skip to drink. And I am going to tap this green dot. And I am going to move it at a seven degree angle to the left while the air, I want tilted in another direction. I'm going to tap this green. Let's do ten. Yeah, I like that, I think. Okay. So here are our words. And the problem with it is that they don't exactly work with a photo right now. So we're going to continue to play around with that. I think we want the words a little smaller overall. So let me go to this quote group, tap the arrow and make it smaller and a uniform way. Okay? I think I'm going to make it a little smaller again, still make things as big as possible the first time. And then you can always adjust it to be smaller. But you don't want to go the opposite way to start with something really small and blow it up to a big size in Procreate, if you can avoid it. There's something I don't love about this. I'm just going to keep playing around with it. I'm going to move live a little bit over this way. And I am going to until wild air a little bit. I'm gonna go to and minus and swim the C. I'm going to make in the sunshine just a little bit smaller. Again, I'm just trying to get some variation and interest here. I'm going to take this quote layer and this is like picky business, right? I'm just going to nudge it a little bit this way. And then I want the wild air to be over by itself a little bit just as kind of an emphasis. I think I like that. 11. Highlights and Shadows: Welcome back. Now we're going to create highlights and shadows to give this some nice depth. For the highlights and shadows, I want a pure white for our highlights. I have a pure white right here. The hex code is a bunch of f's, and then I also have a pure black right here. And the hex code is a bunch of zeros. Another way to get that is to go to the disk, tap up here for a pure white, and tap down here for a pure black. So what we're gonna do here is we are going to be duplicating each of these layers twice to create highlights and shadows. Let's just get to it. So I'm gonna go to this top layer with the women. I'm going to tap duplicate by sliding to the left. And then I'm going to tap Alpha Lock and an Alpha Lock. You get these checkerboards here. I have the pure white and I'm going to tap fill layer. So that makes just the layer below the women white. And we're gonna do that again. And this time we're going to fill the layer with a pure black. So alpha lock fill layer. This is going to be the highlight layer and this is going to be the shadow layer which will manipulate more later. We're going to keep going exactly in this fashion. And I'm going to group these women together with their highlights and shadows. So I will rename this layer women. Let's go to live duplicate alpha lock fill layer with black. So why not fill layer? Duplicate it again, I'm still an alpha lock. If I press gently on this black, I will bring up the last color, which is white. Fill this layer. So I have the highlight layer on the top and the shadow on the bottom. Duplicates in the sunshine alpha lock fill layer with white. Duplicate again. Change the color by pressing my finger here. Fill layer with black. Swim the seas. Same exact thing. Last one, the wild Air alpha lock fill layer with black, duplicate, fill layer with white. Now that we have all these layers, so we have the women with the white and black layers right below them. And then each word and the white layer is always on top of the black one. What we will do next is go to our white layers and drag them all to the right. These are highlights, so we're going to move them in sync. But first we want to see where the sun is coming from and where the shadows are coming from. Here it seems pretty directly overhead. I can't see a whole lot of shadows. Let's just say the light is coming pretty directly above. So I have the white layer selected. I'm going to tap on this arrow, and I'm going to tap just one time. So our highlights are directly above everything. And this is a really subtle effect. A lot of times with highlights and shadows, you can't really see the effect until you turn it on and off. So if we look at our women and we turn off, I'm going to zoom in. Here it is with the white layer turned off and on. I like it. It gives us very subtle paper cut effect while also giving a highlight. I add these highlights to almost all the collages that I do. And again, with the words, it's probably even more subtle. I'm, let's go to live. They turn it on and off. It's very subtle, but it is there. So now that we have our highlights, we're going to create our shadows. So what we're gonna do now is change the blend mode for all of the shadow layers to medium. I'm going to tap on this first black layer. First-time going to an alpha locket because we're going to give the shadows a Guassian blur and Gaussian blur. Well, it's alpha locked. And we're also going to change the blend mode to multiply, which is something I always do, the shadows. The blend mode that you'll always start with is normal. And for this we're just going to scroll up and make it medium so it changes from an end-to-end em. Let's do the same to all of our black layers on Alpha Lock. Multiply on alpha lock, and when we unhelpful locker checkerboards go away, multiply. Okay? So all of our black layers are alpha locked and on multiply. So now we're set up to do our final tweaking, which is working on the shadows and maybe tweaking the colors a little bit. We will do that in the next lesson. I will see you then. 12. Blur and Manipulate Shadows : Welcome back. In the last lesson, we were playing with our highlights. And in this one, we are going to move on to our shadows. Let's get started. So here are our layers once again, and all of our shadow layers are on multiply, and they are not alpha locked. Now I'm gonna give them each a Guassian blur. You can only apply a Gaussian blur to a layer that's not alpha locked. And you need to do that one by one. So let's go in the same order we're on our women. And I'm gonna kinda zoom in. We can see them. And I am going to go to magic wand, gaussian blur. And I get this new menu at the top and slide to adjust. I'm going to use my pencil and you can see what's happening here. As you change the Guassian blur to a small one of 2% for Gaussian blurs, I'm generally in the realm of four to 7%. I think I will go with 6% for this one. I think that looks good. So one by one, we will go to the black layer, magic wand, gaussian blur. 6% were on the live layer here you can see the Guassian blur around here. Black layer, magic wand, gaussian blur, 6%. Magic wand, gaussian blur, six per cent magic wand gaussian blur. And then one last time. Okay, so now that we have our shadow layer is blurred, we're going to move them a little bit. And we determined that the light source was basically coming just straight down. We move the highlights one pixel up to the top, and we're going to move the shadows down by swiping them all to the right. And then tap on this arrow. And what we're gonna be doing now is just tapping to suddenly move it down. And maybe I'll go this way slightly. So 1234567, I just count. I don't know why I do this. I think that's good. So there is just a subtle shadow here. If we want to really see the shadows and what it does for us, we're on the women layer. If we turn that off, we can see the effect that it has. I wonder if it's a little, I feel like it's a little too far down, so I'm gonna go back and re-select them all. This is picky stuff. And I'm just going to move them one pixel up the shadow layer. So here we have our highlights and we have our shadows. And we could leave it just like this if we wanted to give a nice dimensional look, and I'll show you if we turn all of those off, the difference it makes. It just gives you a much flatter look. As you can see. That's the difference when they are off the highlights and shadows and on. Because I want a paper cut effect here. I am going to be manipulating the shadows of the words. I am going to be using the liquefy feature to do that. I'm just going to give you a quick liquefy lesson. Before we do that, I am going to create a new canvas. I'm going to create just a circle. And we're gonna go to liquefy. And I am going to keep the same settings and I'm going to show you what Liquify does. So with liquefy, you can pull the pixels in or out anyway you want. And there's different settings here. There's a lot of fun things you can do with liquify. But for our effect right here, we are just going to be using push. That was our quick liquefy lesson. I'm going to delete this canvas by swiping left delete, Yes. And go back. If I'm on the black layer of live, I'm gonna go to magic wand, I'm going to go to liquefy. And my settings here are push 40 to 44 distortion none, momentum will just make it none. I think that'll be good to start, something like that. And what I'm doing is pushing the shadow underneath it so it gives a paper cut effect. Let me show you what I mean. Imagine that this word is cut out and glued on to a page. So if we just kinda push in the shadows in places where we would imagine it's more glued on, maybe on the edge, It's not super glued on. So we'll have a little bit more of a shadow and we can pull it out. Let's go back to in the sunshine and go on that shadow light layer and do the same thing. Magic wand, liquefy. What I did here you don't really want to do. I pushed the shadow up to the top and a really dramatic way, I don't wanna do that. I'm gonna do a two-finger tap and undo that. I'm gonna be careful not to push quite so vigorously. I think that looks really good. Let's move on to swim the see, the black layer, Magic Wand liquefy. We're tucking the shadow and gently pull the shadow out a little bit this way to get a different effect. That looks good. Let's move on to drink. And the wild air shadow. I think that looks good. There's a paper cut effect there on the words. And next time I'm just going to do some final touches here. I'm going to play with the blue background. The first thing I'm gonna do here is I'm going to bring up that paper texture and put it below the blue. And I am going to put the blue on multiply two so it's interacting with the other colors. And I don't know if you can see the subtle difference here from normal multiply it makes it a little bit darker. And I like that effect. If we wanted to play with the color on the blue layer, we could go to Magic Wand, hue, saturation and brightness. And here I can tool around. I can make it brighter, which I don't want it too bright because it washes the women in the words out. I could make it less saturated. So here it's more gray and here it's more saturated. I'm going to keep it as it is at 50 per cent or 49. That's fine. Right there. And then you can play with the hue, which gives you the most dramatic effect. By going along here in the background. I'm going to have it as blue, but you can do whatever you want. So now we have our first collage with quote, and we can say that by going to wrench, Share and tap JPEG. And we can save that either to our files or to our camera roll. So that was our first look at highlights and shadows and a paper cut effect. And I want to show you how that would apply in a second collage with slightly different techniques. So I will see you in the next lesson where we do a second collage with quotes. 13. My Future’s so Bright Collage: Welcome back. In the last lesson, we created our beach collage with the Ralph Waldo Emerson quote. In this collage, we are going to create a fun collage using a song, lyric, my future's so bright, I gotta wear shades. I don't actually know the sun. It's like an 80 song. You may not know it, but you might, and that is what we are doing it. For your collage. You can do whatever you want. A song, lyric poem. You can just say, I love you or happy birthday. You can do whatever you want. So let's get started. I have some of the isolated elements ready to go, including this woman from Flickr. So I am going to do a copy paste. So three-finger drag down copy and then bring her into my Canvas, which is a 12 by 16 inch. So now let's do the three-finger drag down and paste her into our canvas. She's a little small, but that's okay. We have this arrow selected in uniform and I'm going to make her a little bit bigger and I want her to be in this corner. Here. I'm going to create a new layer right below her and pick up the white color of her shoulder. I'm just going to grab a mono line and just draw this in. That looks a little too white and bright compared to everything else. So I am just going to grab a texture brush. I'll use a girl shear texture brush and it'll pick up some of this gray. And let's see what we can do here. I am on the layer above and I want to do a clipping mask here. And oh, that's good. That's actually a good match. That worked really well. What I'm doing here is I have a clipping mask onto the white shoulder bit that I just drew on. And then I think I'm going to make this gray just a tiny bit lighter to give some texture. Here too. It's too dark. I'm going to use the same brush as an eraser to clean that up. I'm going to hold on the eraser. So now I have that same brush as an eraser. Want to look at the size. Yeah, That's good. So I am going to pinch these layers together. She is ready to go. One thing I am going to do is we're going to add some interest to her sunglasses by adding in a galaxy texture. I am going to go to wrench, insert a file. And this is something I've already downloaded. I'm going to search galaxy. And here it is. What I want for her glasses is this pink area. But I'm going to turn this off for now. And I'm going to draw onto her glasses again with a monoline on a layer above it. And then we'll do another clipping mask. So I created a new layer above her. I have a mono line. I'm going to bring this size down. And I'm just drawing. I have a gray here. It doesn't matter what the color is because we're gonna be using a clipping mask, but let me just do a better color so we all can see it. I'm going to do a clipping mask onto her glasses. And I'll talk you through that after I draw kinda trace around her glasses right here. Okay. So we have her glasses and we're going to do a clipping mask on top of that with the galaxy. So I'm going to tap on the galaxy and do clipping mask and it's clipping to her sunglasses and we don't see it. You just have to move it around with the clipping mask. You can see here there's like bright parts of the galaxy or dark parts of the galaxy. And I like the really bright pink parts of the galaxy for this, I think that looks good. So we have the galaxy reflected in her sunglasses. I like how it is, so I'm just going to pinch it altogether. Now we are ready for our words. Let's go to wrench. Add text. For this one, I'm gonna do a variety of different fonts. So it looks like it's cut out of a magazine like ransom notes or whatever. And we'll just try different fonts together. So the first word is going to be my, that's lowercase and I kinda like it like that. I am going to edit the text so it's all dark color now, but the texts will be different colors when we're done with it. And I'm going to duplicate that. And I'm on the bottom layer, I'm on the arrow. So I'm going to bring the second word down and I'm going to edit the text again. I'm going to put the word future in here. I want it to look like the apostrophe S is a different font. So we'll do that separately. And I'm going to duplicate future again, dragged on the bottom layer. My future's so bright. And then I'm going to do the ellipses like the dot, dot, dot. And that will be in another font. So I'm just setting it up so we can change the fonts and everything as we go along. I'm going to group the words together. And I will title that words. And I think I'm going to make it a little bit bigger. That looks pretty good. Let's start playing with the fonts. So I'm going to my, I'm hitting edit text, tapping on this AAA here. And I have a lot of fonts here that you probably, well, I know you don't have them because that would be weird if you had all the same fonts as me. But any font will do here. So select all It's on Ina. Let's just try different ones. That one's good. We'll go with that. And we're going to tap on future edit text and find a different font. And we want it to look like it's been cut out of a magazine. I like this font. Maybe I'll use it later. So we can have a font that contrast more with Mike because these are both kind of chunky fonts that's not very readable. There's really no method to my madness here, but I do, I think I am going to avoid the hand lettered font. That looks good. That's different. So there's another font there. I'm going to edit text for the apostrophe S. Let's find another one. We can always change this as we go along. I'm just getting started here. Instead, I wanted to avoid a hand lettered font, but I like that one. I'm going to keep that one for now. Let's do bright. That is looking like unusual collection. I think I'm going to tweak this, but let's just keep going. So now we're on the dot, dot, dot. And I'm sure those will look all kind of similar, but let's just see. So we have my future's so bright and we're gonna be adding the text boxes below. I don't think I like that. So the way it is with a hand lettered things. So I'm going to edit that again. That's a good font. Okay, we'll do this for now. I think that looks good. I don't think I want the mice so bold because that's not a word I would want to emphasize. Do you know what I mean? Like in my future? So bright, I think future and bright would be the bold options. So let's just change my again to a less bold font. Let's just try. That looks too much like the other one. If you're looking for fonts, google Fonts is a great place to look for fonts. This is Poppins. I like Poppins. That's very light. So what if I did a semi bold, quicksand, quicksand, quicksand regular. This is like I could fuss with this all day, right. And I do this is what I do. So we'll just do this for my which looks similar to future. So we'll bold future. Yeah, I think that looks good. And maybe I'll just change one of these words like to all caps. So I'm on bright edit text and let's see how all caps would look. If I tap on this T T thing, then it'll make the letters all caps. Yes, I'm pretty happy with this. Now what we're going to do is make those little textboxes beneath everything. We're going to rasterize all of these texts layers. So before we do that, let's duplicate the words. Turn off the original layer and bring that the bottom and tuck that behind everything. And now we have our words and I'm just going to rasterize all of them. Once we rasterize them, they're just pixels on the page. They're not editable text anymore. So all of our text has been rasterized. I'm going to choose a white and we're going to start drawing textboxes underneath each word. So I'm just going to create those new layers and add them all in beneath the words. This is not rasterized. So we have our text and our woman and her sunglasses. In the next lesson, we will be drawing the textboxes. I will see you in the next lesson. 14. Ransom Note Effect: Welcome back. In the last lesson, we set up our canvas and now we're going to begin adding text boxes like we did before. But in this one we'll do multi-colored boxes for that ransom note kind of effect. I'm just going to start with white for now. I have a palette here. And how I created this palette was I pulled this pink from the background. And then I am using greens because that is a complimentary color to this pink. So it's going to pop. This one is going to be a pinky, minty overall. But we'll just start by drawing some white text boxes underneath and then we'll be changing the colors. We're on the layer below my and we're going to add a text box. So I am going to tap this ribbon. I'm on freehand. I want it to be rectangle instead. So I'm just going to draw a rough rectangle and fill it with that color. And then go back to this arrow and move it around. Now I want to be on free form to change the shape of that. That looks pretty good. I will duplicate this text box and drag it down below future. Now I'm going to tap on this arrow and stretch it out free form. And I'm going to duplicate that box again. And I want it below the S. I guess I didn't need to create all these extra layers since I'm just duplicated. That's fine. We have this rectangle that's below S now and we're just going to change it to fit with the S. That looks good. Duplicate the textbox, bring the box down and make it fit the word. And we'll do that two more times. I'm going to turn off the text box under bright so we can see more clearly are duplicated. One, I'm going to turn everything back on and I'm going to group the words together, their text box. So I'm going to swipe to the right, group, swipe to the right. This is a great start. We're going to add some more color and tilt our textboxes a little bit. So I have my green color palette. So I'm just going to start with that. I'm going to add this to the future textbox. So I'm going to alpha locket fill layer. I am going to go to the text box underneath the S. I think I want to move this a little bit. I think I actually want the S to be on top of the future, so I'm going to drag that up. So what color do I want this to be? Okay, so alpha lock, I'm going to fill it with a gray, see what that looks like and change the S to a different color. Let's try a really light pink that it looks a lot like the background. That's interesting. I don't love that. Let's just do the whites. I think I want bright to be in fun, bright color. I'm not sure which screen I used before. Let's try the lighter green and bright alpha lock fill layer. I think those are the same green. Let's try future in this lighter green. While they look exactly the same, they are pretty similar. So let's just try there. I like that. I think I am going to make the ellipses box. Again. I'm going to move that on top of bright. So I'm going to drag that up on top of bright. I am going to make this like a dark hot pink. Let's make our ellipse is a different color. I think that looks pretty good. It's looking just a little bit too uniform right now. So let's start tilting things a little bit. I think I'm going to make this box a little bit lighter. So I'm gonna go to Magic Wand, hue, saturation and brightness. I like that. I like my words as they are, so I am going to just start flattening the layers so it's easier to work with here. So I'm on the group with my and I'm going to tap flatten, same with each group here. Good. Then we're going to just start rearranging things and tilting them so it looks more organic. I think I will also erase away some of the lines, so it looks like we cut them out in different ways. So let's just start with those ellipses. And I have the monoline as an eraser. And I'm just going to erase away some of that. So it looks more interesting. It looks kinda jagged there. And I like it because we're going for like a hand cut approach. So think about what something would look like if you cut it, there would be just little quirks like that. I'm just going to just randomly erase away some things on each layer. I am happy with how this looks right now. And in the next lesson, we will be adding the finishing details like highlights and shadows in giving the words a little bit of a tilt to make it look like they weren't glued on. I will see you in the next lesson. 15. Composition, Highlights, Shadows: Welcome back. Let's add some finishing details here to our collage. I want to emphasize the words future and bright. I think my future's so bright, my future's so bright. Well, at any rate, I'm going to de-emphasize my and make it a little bit smaller. I am on free form, but I want to be on uniform. And so I'm just going to bring this down. I'm going to tap on this little green dot and just tilt it a little bit two degrees. For a tiny subtle tilt, the S is going to be on top of the future. I want to make that a little bit bigger and tilt it like that. Or maybe Yeah. I think I want to tilt it the other way. That looks good. Future I will give a little tilt downwards but less so than the S. So that's a negative three. Yeah, I like that. And so I think I do want that to be big and not underneath the other words. I like that. I think these words are getting a little bit crowded now. So I'm going to tap on all the word layers and make them just a little bit smaller so we can give them some breathing room. I think I want my to be over here. Bright to be down a little bit untilted, six degree tilt. And then we have our ellipsis. I think maybe it would be interesting if that went off the page. Let's go to free form on our ellipsis. Is that that's how you say it, right? Yeah. Let's bring it off the page like that. I like the way that looks. I think I don't like bright. When I don t know what I just tapped numbers into this little box and see what happens. What if it was just down just a little bit. Another way to move it as this little yellow nodule. And that will do like a subtle rotation. Maybe I will make them my a tiny bit pink. They're just a really subtle difference there. I am pretty happy with how that looks. Now, we are going to be adding in our highlights and shadows. We're gonna do this in exactly the same way that we did before with our last collage. So we're gonna grab a true white and then a true black. When I create a palette, I almost always add a true white and a true black in there just for this purpose. And then we're going to be duplicating each thing and giving it a highlight and a shadow. Duplicate my alpha lock, and duplicate it one more time. We'll just start by duplicating and we want to make sure they're all on alpha lock. So one of these layers is gonna be white for the highlight and one of the layers is going to be black for the shadow. She's not alpha locked. We want our alpha locked. Now we'll do this systematically. We'll start with our white highlights first, just to make it easy. If we want to get the color that we use last, we can just hold this down and so we can switch easily between white and black. So let's go to the top. Fill that layer with white and this one, and this one. Okay, so we have all highlight layers, and now let's tap on this white to turn it to black and will make the bottom layer black. Okay, so now we have all of our words with the highlight and shadow layers below, ready to go. The next thing we wanna do is establish where the light is coming from. In this one, it's pretty easy to see. The light seems to be hitting her right here, and the shadows are here and here. So I'm going to grab all of my white layers by swiping left 123456, seven. And I'm going to grab this arrow and then I'm going to tap it just one pixel in the direction of the light. So I'll just do this. And again, this is a very subtle effect. Let's see. We're in bright. If you can see the difference, if we zoom in, it's a super subtle highlight. I've tried to pixels like a two tab. And this is really just the way to go, just a single pixel tap for the highlights. And then what we want to do is an alpha lock, all of our black layers so we can do a Gaussian blur. Because you can't Gaussian blur with an Alpha Lock. I'm going to group these bottom layers together just for a little organization. I'm going to tuck this closed so we can see what we're dealing with. I wish you could Guassian blur multiple layers at a time, but I don't think you can. So we're going to start with my magic wand, gaussian blur. And we're looking at my, and I'm gonna do, I think it's due just a 4% for these five. Sure, we'll do five. Okay? So each of the black layers, we're gonna give a 5% Guassian blur too. Moving on to the ellipses. Ellipses, the dots, we'll call them the dots, 5%. And bright. Let's move. Our shadow is suddenly in the direction away from the highlight. Let's swipe to the right. On all of our black layers. Tap on this arrow and let's just move them in the opposite direction. So the light we determined was coming from here. So we'll go 1234. I think that looks pretty good. I want the shadow on the woman to be a little bit more obvious than the words because it will be manipulating the ones in the words, but not her. I'm going to bring that down a little bit. That looks pretty good. I am also going to be putting all of the shadows and a multiply blend mode so they interact with the other layers. It's a subtle difference that I think matters. And now what we're gonna be doing is using the Liquify on the black layer to make it look like the words are glued onto the page to give a paper cut effect. So we're going to start with my, We're gonna go to Magic Wand, Liquify. I'm on push, 20% size, pressure 32, and distortion and momentum, none. So what we're doing here is just pushing in some of the shadows, exaggerating the others for that 3D look, let's go to our S because it's on top of our future. So liquefy again, I think that looks pretty good. On to future. I am going to push this in men and pretend that it's already kinda glued down by that S, If that makes sense. Let's move on to so our dots and bright. Going to bring the size up a little bit here. Here's a little trick that helps sometimes with these things. I'm going to Gaussian blur in a different way. So let me show you how to do that. I'm going to make sure I'm on a light color and I'm going to grab a soft brush from the airbrushing set. I am going to go to Gaussian Blur, and I'm going to tap on pencil instead, and it's at 60%. And I'm just gonna kinda see the size of that. Go to the bottom of this and kind of blurred out a little bit. I think that looks pretty good. I think we have the paper cut effect. I like the colors. Let's make it small. This is a trick that I always do. You make it small and then really big to see what it looks like? There's another trick that I learned from Jen nickels. That's a good one. So we're going to grab a black and we're going to fill in the top layer. And we're going to change the blend mode here to color. And what that will do is it turns the whole thing into a black and white. And that way you can see if there's enough contrast in it or if everything is just kind of bleeding together. I think there is enough contrast here, so I'm going to turn that off. I think I might want the words to be a tiny bit smaller. They're grouped together. So I'm going to tap on that arrow and bring them in like that. So those are my two collages. I can't wait to see what you create. So please share those in the class project area. And I'm always delighted and inspired by student work. So please share your projects there. When I create my collages, I like to recreate them in different dimensions so I can share them on different forms of social media. So in the next bonus lesson, I'm going to show you how to take a canvas like this that's 12 by 16 Canvas and easily change it into a square or a long skinny Canvas for real. So you can repurpose your collage into different kinds of contents. I will see you in the next lesson. 16. Bonus! Resizing Completed Canvases : Welcome back. In this bonus lesson, I am going to show you how to easily change your canvas size. We're going to make this into a square, and we're going to make this into a tall format that you could use for a real on Instagram. We are going to start by duplicating this original by swiping to the left and tap duplicate. The first one was labeled print. This one is going to be a square. And because we have the original one with all the layers, I am going to be deleting layers here just to make it easier for us to work. So this was our quote. This was our quote. Again, this is the blue layer we didn't use. I am going to pinch together the blue and the paper texture because it's a pretty big canvas. We want to reduce the layers for this, especially because we have them in another canvas. So I'm going to tap wrench crop and resize. And I am going to make this for now 16 by 16 just to make it a square without losing anything. So it just gave me this extra space right here. That looks good. And I'm going to tap Done. If I would have done that without collapsing the layers, I don't think I would have had enough layers because I'm transforming 12 by 16 Canvas to as 16 by 16. So now that we have that, we want to adjust our layers around, I thought I had pinch these two together but I didn't. So I'm going to I'm on the bottom color layer and I'm tapping on the arrow and I'm going to stretch it out here. And the sun, I think I'm going to want to be somewhere around. There are women. Our here with the highlights and shadows. I'm going to tap on them and I'm just going to move them. They're a little too tall right now, so I think I'm also going to bring them down a little bit here. That looks good. And now that they've moved, I might want to move the sun a little bit. And our quotes, I like the look of it overlapping the cute little baby a little bit, but not too much. So I wouldn't want it obscured, but just a little bit gives you a little depth. I'm having trouble moving that around, so I'm going to turn snapping and magnetics off for this so I can just move it, it flips exactly where I want it. That looks pretty good. If I wanted to take it a step further, which I do, I'm going to just start condensing these layers so I can move them easily. So I'm going to pinch together live with the highlight and shadow. See what it did here. The shadow was on multiplies, so I can't do that without it a losing that white color. So I am just going to pinch together the highlight and the live. So I want that to be a little bit bigger. I think. I want it to be over here. And I think I might want to move, swim the sea a little bit over. So I'm going to pinch together the highlight and the textbox and group it together with its shadow. And then move that group over, swim in the sea. You can be as picky or unpicking as you want with this. This would just be like for an Instagram post, but I'm just showing you how I might finesse the little details there. So there we have a square, and that looks good. So now we're going to duplicate our prints again, and I'm going to label this new one a real. I am going to delete the extra layers again. Since a reel is a very tall canvas, I'm gonna go to Crop and Resize. And I'm just going to drag this up to about that. And I'm going to tap Done. Now that we have that extra space to work with, we're going to get it the exact size we want. So wrench Crop and Resize settings, and we're in inches, but I want to move two pixels because an Instagram rail is 1080 by 1920 pixels. So here we have our real, which is just this tiny portion of the canvas. But if I hit Resample Canvas, then this is going to move exactly in the right way to get our canvas that is 1080 by 1920 pixels. So I'm going to tap done. We are going to do a similar thing that we did with the square. So we have our color, I'm just going to stretch that out. We have our sun. I'm going to bring that up. I'm going to bring up the words. Maybe make them a little bit bigger to fit the canvas. And then we have the women here at the bottom. And this looks pretty good as is, but I think I want the women to take up just a little bit more space. So we're going to do what we did in the beginning. I'm going to just pinch the highlight and the women together. I'm going to duplicate the women, just the women. I am going to move the copied one down. I am going to take the women and the shadow and I'm going to move them up. And then we're going to do what we did before with our duplicated image. And we're going to mirror that up by tapping, rotate, and then flip horizontal and then just layering that up. And again, there's no indication here where you can see the blue line. So I that looks pretty good, but I'm going to move it down just a little bit more. So we have our women and our extra layer. I'm gonna move it down just a little bit. I think that looks pretty good. I'm going to make the sun just a little bit bigger. And the words just a little bit bigger. And now it is ready to share on Instagram as a real or a story. I hope you enjoyed this bonus lesson on changing your canvas sizes. A big congratulations on completing the class. In the next lesson, I'm just going to go over the next steps of you quickly, so I will see you in the next lesson. 17. Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow . . .: Congratulations, you've completed this class. I hope this class has sparked your creativity and expanded your Procreate knowledge. I'd love to see what you create, so please share it in the class project area if you'd like even more resources for Procreate and collage, please visit my website, Kelly Brandenburg.com. If you'd like to learn more about Procreate and collage, please check out my other Skillshare classes. Wants to be the first to know about new classes or bonus lessons. Follow me on Skillshare by clicking here. Thanks again, and I hope to see you soon.