How to Organize Your Procreate Brush Library

1. Introduction: Hello, this is Marlena from apenandapurpose.com where I blog about planning and journaling and self-improvement. And I created this class because I love working with Procreate to create lettering and stickers and all kinds of good stuff. But I found that I had so many brushes that I didn't know what I still had. The list was gigantic and so I spent some time and found some ways to organize my brushes. And I thought it would be helpful for me to share this with you as well, since I'm imagining that other people also have a hard time organizing their brushes. If you're like me and you're easily distracted or you lose focus or forget what you're doing. This should help you. I would love to see as a project, what kinds of categories are ways of organizing your brushes. You find most helpful from this class. And if you come up with different ways of organizing brushes, I would love to see some screenshots because I think the more we can work together, the better able we are to control the madness. That is, these brushless. 2. How to Organize Your Brush Sets in Procreate: This is Marlene enough from a pen and a purpose. And one of the things that really frustrates me about procreate is my brush library. And so I just started to try to organize my brushes better. I've purchased a lot of brushes. So most embarrassing how many brushes that I've purchased. And it's just one giant hot mess of a list. Okay. And so I was getting kind of frustrated with us. And so I decided that I was going to organize my brushes. And I thought I'd just do a quick video in case you're also struggling with how to organize your procreate brushes. So it's just going to create a new one. So what you can see here is that I've created some categories and I need to figure out a way to make them stand out more. I put little emojis in front of them, so I have watercolor lettering, Soyuz capitalize, two textures, painting, templates and stamps, and then patterns. And so I'm going to add a new one. So what I do for this is I'm just going to brush library. You scroll down like this so that little plus sign shows up. And then someone to click on the plus sign. And then I'm going to name it with my keyboard. And I'm gonna put a little emoji in front of it. And I might actually change these to all be the same or something so that it stands out more. But I'm just gonna put this little green dress because it's cute. I don't have any method to my madness at first I was trying to say, oh, it's lettering. So I'm going to put a pen in there and watercolor. So I'm going to put whatever this twisty thing. So I'm starting to make it look like what it was, but that didn't work out for me. So I put those little dress and then I'm just going to add here, I'm going to put Skechers or sketch. So that's the name of my category now. And so I'm going to move that down because I think underneath the lettering like and then the importance to me, I'm really working on triangular and lettering and sketching. I'm going to put After that. I am hesitant because I'm also trying to do more art and water color, but I feel like sketching typically is where I'm going to start with art. So I'm gonna leave that there. And so then what I'll do is I'll find where I was at. So I'm about right here because that's where I was like, where do I put my pencil? So I have this ultimate toolbox pencil with all these pencils in him. I'm going to move that up to the little dress one that I just made and put that right underneath there. And so you can see my pencil. I'm gonna put all my pencil type sketchy brushes right here underneath sketch. And then I'm gonna put all my watercolor type brushes underneath wallet watercolor. And then I'm going to put all my texture type brushes underneath textures just so that I can start knowing where to look for things when I'm doing a piece. Usually what happens is I'll start and then I start just scrolling. I forget what I even have. And it just feels like overwhelming and like a mess. So I'm hoping this will help me to feel a little bit more organized so that if I want to say do some lettering, I can look through. And only up to here so far, looks through my different lettering brushes and see if there's something in particular that I want to use. Another way that I organize my brushes and I got this from Lisa glands is that I have a folder called barebones. And within bare-bones, it's going to have some of the ones that I use the most often. So I use the 6B pencil a lot when I'm starting out. And then I also use this monoline brush really frequently as well. So I'm gonna put that actually appear. So I'm gonna keep that at the top because I often need to use this monoline brush. And I like to just know where that is. Otherwise, I'd probably put it under every single category because I use it a lot. I hope that's helpful. Hi, I'm sure I'm not the only one who's just like this brush library. It's making me crazy. In the next video, I'll show you how to make your category stand out more to make it even easier to find your brushes. 3. How to Make Your Categories Stand Out : Hello, it's really NFL my pen on a purpose.com and just wanted to update you on my brush organization within procreate. And I showed you in my last video how I was thinking about doing some organization of my millions of brushes since it was very overwhelming and I couldn't really keep up with what I had. And so what I did was create different categories within my brushes here. So if you want to create a category, so for example, I have letter here. What you would do is you click on this little plus sign and then you can name it using your keyboard. And what I did with all of mine as I put star, star, the name. So whatever the name is, and then I put Star Star again. And that's that. So then I would I moved this wherever I wanted it in terms of where would be the best for me in terms of the order in which I tend to use things. So I've lettering and then I have watercolors, textures, things like that, which are the things I use most often. So if you want to get rid of, as you just said, this little button and delete it. You can also share it, duplicate it, or rename it. But I'm just going to delete that one because I don't need it. So what I have here at the top, I have brushes that I've created, and then I have barebones, which I talked about in my last video is the brushes that I really use a lot. And I sometimes just want to have them so that I don't get overwhelmed by my list. Lisa glands, instant artists is one of my favorite, favorite brush packs. And so I also put that at the top. Then I have my categories. And as you can see, when I scroll through, now that I have the double stars, it's a lot easier to pick out. My category is previously I had them as just little pictures, but these stars really helped me. So I have lettering brushes and then I have sketching brushes, which includes things like inking or pencil. Thing is you would do a doodle with I have under sketching, they have water, which is watercolor brushes. And I didn't write out all of watercolor because I want to be able to see that the four stars on there. So I did sometimes make it a smaller word. Some of my brushes did come with little icons on there. And for now I'm leaving those on there. I might remove them if they're distracting from my titles. Texture are things that add that glorious texture to your artwork. Of course my favorite are always Lisa glands brushes. So that at the top there. And then the next one is paint. So this would be any kind of paint. So other than the watercolors, so oils and acrylics and I have some splattered, a bunch of different kinds of paint. Then I have crayon, which means markers and Kranz and past styles and chalk and all sorts of things that would be used for like coloring markers. I think I said that already. And then I have templates, which are things like calligraphy guides, letter builders, grid builders, so things that would help you to make your composition. I put that there. And I've kits, which is when you buy some sets that comes with a whole bunch of different variety of brushes. So there's murderers and paint and stuff like that. I just kept those. In this kit section, rather than splitting them out. And then things like, like this botanical illustration fits that description I just gave. But it's also something that comes with directions and how to create these beautiful botanical cells. And so I just kept that in the kids section. I'll make it easy for me to find later. Magic brushes is also like that. And I don't, I don't know what it looks like. It does amazing things. I haven't played with that yet. So I kept in the kids section so that I can go back to when I want to stamps. Are those stamped things where if you go on your paper, it's going to stamp it out. Oops. And then I also have patterns, but I only have one item in there, so I might get rid of that. But so this would be a patterns like here's a sidewalk. So I like this as texture to psi might move it over there. I just haven't decided yet in terms of where this might go because it's essentially one of those repeatable patterns. So it's pretty cool. But I do only have one of those that I'm drawing, which at least the glands has some drawings that you can do. So it's like the buildup of a drawing. So you have the knack of birds and years of animals and stuff like that so that you can have a base to kinda start from when you're drawing your critters. There's also a human one I think, and birds. So I have those and then I have a section for glitter or metallic galaxy brushes, things like that. And then I have all of these ones that come with procreate. I left the ones that come with procreate down here because I want to remember which ones those are when I teach classes on the skill share or in other places, I'm not making my own brush and I wanna be able to tell people which brush to you is from this free pack. So I'm leaving those as they are. I did take a couple of them and duplicate them. So if you click on this little thing, you can duplicate it. And then you'll have to sketching. And I moved like the sketching, inking brushes up into the sketching category on my, my new category list. So you can do that with paint and stuff like that. But for the most part I would leave these alone so that you can remember which ones actually come with procreate. It comes with a lot of really great brushes just on its own. But it's so rewarding to just Russia's even if you don't use them, I don't know why I feel that way, but I end up doing that. So just wanted to show you this update where I did put these stars there to make everything stand out a little bit more. I really like this so far. It was kind of a pain because I have so many brushes, but it was rewarding to see which brushes that I have into sort of play around with them. I like testing out brushes. And I now feel like if I was going to do an art piece that I could go between my brushes without taking a really long time trying to figure out what I have. 4. How to Create a "Favorites" Brush Set: Today I'm gonna show you how to create a bras hat that has your favorite brushes in it so that you don't need to continue to try to find the brushes you're looking for each time you want to switch a brush, it's important that you create the SAT to only have the brushes that you use consistently so that it's not overwhelming. One of the things that can happen very quickly with procreate is that your brushless can get out of control because there's so many wonderful brushes out there and there's no great way to organize those brushes and learn this tip from Lisa glands and her skill share class. And so I wanted to share with you how to create your own list. So I call mine the same as her, which is barebones. And in there I have brushes that I like to use. So I'm going to create this from scratch and just show you how you would do this. So the first thing you would do is you're going to create a new brush set. And you do that by clicking the little plus sign. And you're gonna rename your brush. So I'm going to name this one favorites because that is what goes in here. So I typed up Favorites and now it has that name. There's nothing in there. So what I'm going to do next is I'm going to go through some of my other folders where I know that my favorite brushes are. I've created some brushes, so I'm going to first go into my brush. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to find my favorite ones. So I always use monoline. What I'm going to do is move this into my favorite brush folder. But in order to do that, the first thing that I'm going to do is duplicate it. I don't want to just move it from the folder because I liked to continue to have it in its original folder. So I'm going to duplicate it. So you can see there's monoline and monoline two. Then I'm gonna stick my finger on it, hold it down until it does that. So it became separate. Go up here, I'm gonna click with my other finger on favorites, and it opens that and I just put that in into my favorites file. So if I went back, you can see it's still here in the mine folder. My mind folder has a lot of stuff in it, so it's already kind of overwhelming, right? So if I wanted to find another brush that I really like, I might go into. No, in my bare bones folder here, I have 6B pencil that is also one that comes with procreate. So it would be in way down at the bottom. If you don't have a million brushes, it's not that hard to find, so it would be under sketching. And then I could go and I could see this technical pencil, swipe it to the right, duplicate it. And then I'm gonna take the one that's 6B pencil One. And I touched it, held it down until it came apart. And then I'm going to scroll way back up to favorites. Click on favorites with my finger and opens the folder and I'm gonna drop it right in there. So let's say that I wanted to do a whole bunch. I'm gonna go to bare bones. I'm going to select the ones that I want to this one. And then I, actually, what I'm doing here is I selected one and then the other ones I want, I'm swiping to the right, like just gently swiping to the right. And I'm just going to pick all of these up at one time. And you do that again just so you hold it down until it comes apart. Click on favorites with your other finger, and then just drop it in there and you can see it dropped into my new favorites folder. So that's how you create your new brush set so that you just have your bare bones, the ones that you use often in this set. 5. How to Combine Some of Your Brush Sets: I'm going to show you how to collapse some of your brush sets in your brush library so that you can have a less overwhelming list of brush sets in your brush library. Now don't get me wrong. You're still going to have a giant overwhelming list of brush sets and your brush library, which is why I am recording these videos to show you several different ways to organize your brushes better so that they're easier to find. This is something you would do in the event that you have several brushes from the same designer that have the same function. And it just makes sense for you to have them all together. So for example, I have a brush set that I purchased on design cuts that is a bunch of Fleurus stamps for calligraphy. And it came with, I think it was seven or eight different brush sets. So a brush set is like these lists. So barebones favorites, mine, it came with like seven different ones. So it was like flourished from the top, from the bottom cross stroke. And I just felt like to me, I'd rather have them all in one list, then have eight different things taking up my list because the list can get overwhelming really quickly and, and honestly minus still overwhelming. But anyway, one of the things that I do for my brushes to keep it a little bit less overwhelming when I'm working is to have a folder at the top that is the brushes that I use the most. So that was my bare bones brush. And I've been moving it to be Favorites recently. So I am going to move everything from bare bones to Favorites, and I'm going to show you how to do that. So in the brush set that I want to move everything from, I'm going to select the brushes so I have the top one is selected, so you select it by touching it. And then you're going to select the rest of them by sliding over slightly to the right well, while touching them. So your touch and slide over until they all turned blue, touched the whole thing, hold it down until they all when you move your finger, they move around like that. And then with your other hand, you're going to select the brush library that you want to move everything to. And you can tell it's on that one because it turned blue. And I'm going to slide down or wherever I want to put this. And I'm just going to drop that in there. And then you can see that those are all in the new library now, and they're no longer in there. The bare-bones librarian. If I click on the barebones library, you can see that there's nothing in it. I'm going to get rid of that library and now I have one less brush sat in my giant list of brushes. And so I click on the little procreate sign there, that little calligraphy looking thing. And up comes this menu. I'm going to hit delete and then delete SAT question Mark, can undo it. That's all right with me. And I'm going to select delete. So now I have one last set of brushes in my gigantic list of brushes. 6. Thank you!: Thank you so much for watching this class. I hope you found value in it and I hope you're able to control the madness that is, your brush list in procreates. If you came up with some new titles or categories, I would love if you would share that with the rest of the class and leave a screenshot of your category titles. Or leave a comment in the discussion section just to let us know what your ideas are for organization. The more ideas we have, the better we'll be able to organize our brush library. Now that you're all organized, it's time to go and create something. I hope that you enjoy this process and I look forward to working with you again in the future. 7. Update: Original Procreate Brushes: Okay. Hi there, Marlena here from a pen purpose.com and I wanted to show you just a little bit of an update on how I've been organizing my brushes. I have purchased some more brushes and so there are some in the way right now. But I just wanted to show you one of the things I discovered since creating that last course. Now if you have watched my course, you're going to see that I have these little stars with the title of a section, which I really like It has really helped me to be able to organize things. I do find that I need to remember that when I purchase new rushes, I need to go in. Otherwise, it becomes like your e mail, how you have or your downloads folder, how you just keep having more and more stuff added to it and then it becomes like I just don't feel like doing that. Then it takes a little bit longer to organize stuff. So one of the things I started to do, as you can see, is I started to move my original procreate brushes towards the top. My plan is to have my favorites folder at the top and probably the folder of the brushes that I'm creating myself at the top. Then I'm going to have the ones from procreate come next, along with some of my absolute favorites like me lisa glance and T brushes. But at first when I created my organization system, I left all of the original procreate brushes at the bottom. Of course, that would mean that every time I was taking a tutorial or something that I wanted to use those brushes, I had to scroll through my gigantic awful list. It's actually awesome, but I've been moving them to the top. I just wanted to let you know that you can do that. You just have to find the original ones. You can tell the original ones because they have these little cute icons, whereas everything else just has this little procreate sign. I'm going to grab the drawing brush and I'm going to move it up to where I want it and just drop it. That's all you got to do. This way, it's just like what you were doing when you were putting them under titles, but I just wanted to let you know you can put the original brushes towards the top. 8. Intro To Organizing Within a Category: Hello, Marlina here with a pen and and purpose, and I'm here today to show you another way of organizing your brushes within Procreate. Specifically, we're going to be looking at organizing our brushes within a particular brush library section. For example, this is what I've done so far with Milans brushes. I have four different brush pack that I purchased from her that I'm putting into this particular list. You can see at the top, it says instant artist. If I scroll down, you're going to see the next one says watercolor, and then there's one for guash, and then one more for pencils. What I did was I created a stamp brush and made it so that the title shows in the preview so that I can organize my brushes within a brush library according to a title. I'm going to show you how to make brush stamp so that you can do the same within yours. Okay. 9. How to Create a Brush Stamp Part 1: The first thing that we're going to do is create our brush stamp. In order to do this, you want to create a canvas. I'm going to create a square canvas. You can use whatever square canvas you have, but I'm just going to show you how to do one in case you don't have a square canvas. I hit the plus sign and upper right corner. I'm going to hit this little black plus sign thing in this upper right corner, and then I'm going to make a canvas that is 500 500 pixels, 300 DPI, and I can title it here. I'll name it square so that it'll show up in my list as a square canvas. I'm going to hit Create, and there it is. Then in this canvas, the first thing we're going to want to do is make sure that we have it not white but pure black instead. Click on your little color, color wheel and do double tap at the bottom to get a pure black. Hit value, make sure it's all zeros, and then you can just pull that over. Then the next thing is we're going to create pure white. Click on your disc, double tap in the upper left hand corner. We're going to double check all Fs. There you go. Then what I'm going to do just to make this really simple is to use text instead of letter. You could letter this yourself. I'm just going to use text. I'm going to hit the wrench. Click ad, click Add Text, and then I'm going to type in watercolor. Okay. I'm going to spell it correctly. This two letter A is in the upper right hand corner of my keyboard, I'm going to click that and then I'm going to change my font, although it's not going to work. What I want to do is click this layer, click on watercolor, edit text, and then it's selected the whole thing, and I'm going to try that again, and then I'm going to pick whichever one of my fonts that I want. I want it to be Northwell because that's what I used for my other ones. I did purchase that on design cuts and I can link that if you're interested in using the same font. I put it I pulled them out so that I could make it larger. I'm also going to pull it down a little bit just to be more in the middle. I'll probably fix that again in a bit. I'm going to increase the size of this. Again, I unselected it. I do have to fix that. What I like to do is to just go back up here at a text because it's starting over instead of trying to select the text. I always have trouble with that. Then I'm just going to make it big. That looks pretty good. Select it, and then snapping and magnet I'm going to just put it in the middle. It doesn't matter that much because all that we're doing is making a title, but I like it in case I want to use this as a cover for my gallery or something like that. I'm going to select that and that's all done. What I'm going to do next is take three fingers, swipe down, and going to copy all. Then we're going to get ready to create our brush in the next video. 10. How to Create a Brush Stamp Part 2: So now we're going to create our brush stamp, and I'm going to show you first what that means with a brush stamp. I can see that I can just tap my pencil on the screen and that little flower is going to come up every single time. That's a brush stamp. We're going to be creating a brush stamp with our text that we just put together. You can see how the preview here is showing that little flower. We want the preview to show our text. So what we're going to do is first of all, create a new brush library by hitting this little blue plus sign, and we're going to name it, whatever you want to name it. I'm going to name this one titles. Okay. Then we're going to start with a brand new brush by clicking the plus on the top of that section right here and it made this untitled brush, and we're just going to be inside of there creating our brush. At the top, you have stroke path, and we're going to move the spacing all the way over. You can see what happened here is when it's down, it's a line, and when it's moved all the way over, they're separate like that. The second one really important. We're going to change this shape to be what we just created. Okay. So what I did there was hit edit at the top of shape source. Okay. Then I'm going to click import and paste. That past what I copied earlier when I did the three finger swipe down and copy all. You can see it came in just like we want it. I came in with the white text on a black background. If yours did not, and it came in like this, then all you're going to do is hit it with two fingers and it will change. Now let me show you though, if it did come like this, what it would look like as a stamp. It's a white square with some black text on it. You don't want that when you're creating a brush stamp because you want to not show the background. I'm going to fix it by going in and tapping with my fingers, and then I'm going to click Done to save it and you can see really small that it's just the white lettering. The next thing that we're going to be looking at here is the Apple pencil setting. Now for this setting, what we're going to do is we're going to increase the size. I tend to use about 80% for this. We're going to also decrease this opacity down to zero because I don't want this brush stamp to be light sometimes and dark other times. Next, we're going to go into the property section, and this is where we're going to change the size again. Right now, this is as big as it's going to get just based on this maximum size, but I can make it a lot bigger. I'm going to go up to about 660% on that. Then for the minimum size, I'm going to go up to 22%. I also want to make sure I'm using stamp preview because that is the whole point to put it in the list. Then I'm going to increase the preview size up to about 38 to 40, something like that. I got 39. The next area that we're going to look at is about this brush. This really is just a title your brush, so you can title it watercolor or watercolor title or whatever you want. I'm just going to write watercolor here, and then you can sign it, and then you can put made by, whatever you want to put here. That is it. I'm going to click done you can see that it came up as watercolor, which is exactly what we want. If I wanted this to stand out in a different way, I could just grab a brush and say, draw hoops. I could draw little things around it to make it stand out. I'm going to make that a little bit smaller. What I'm doing since I use the wrong color, I alpha it with two finger swipe over towards the right, and then I'm going to actually fill that layer so that they're white. I'm just going to show you what it would look like in a title if I kept it like this. Now this is not obviously neat. I did it quickly. Three finger swipe down, copy all and then I'm going to go over to my brush library and then go back to the titles that I just created. I'm going to slide what I just created over to the left. I'm going to duplicate it, hit the top one, go to shape, and then I'm just going to edit, import, paste and then I'm done with that. I don't have to redo the entire brush every single time that I'm creating it because I already put in those settings and I can just use them again. I might change the title here, but right now it's watercolor one, it's just a little bit different, so that's fine with me. Done, now you can see it has those in there. If I wanted to put that, say in my s of glands here, I would then go over to my titles. I'm going to duplicate it again because I like to keep everything in the in the section. I'm just showing you what this would look like. If I had more on there, it would maybe stand out a little bit more, but I like the way it looks with just the text. In the next video, I'm going to show you how I actually use this in a brush library. Okay. 11. 5 Creating an Organized Brush List : Okay. So when I'm organizing in this way, what I'm looking for is to put a bunch of the brush sets that I've purchased from a particular designer together in one list so that I have less items on my list. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to create a new list. I'm going to name this one T because these brushes that I'm going to be organizing are from Tila Cunningham from every Tuesday. What I'm going to do next is I'm going to go and find her watercolor brushes, and I am going to move all of those brushes into my new TLA category. I want to make sure that I have one selected, and then I am going to way. I'm going to slide them slightly towards the right so that they all turn blue. Now I have selected all of the brushes from that set. I'm going to hold down my pencil and move it a little bit until it does this, take my other hand, and I'm going to select the brush library where I want to drop them. You can see that I selected it because it has this little blue procreate sign, and I'm just going to drop it in there. Now you can see that if I went to TLA water, there's nothing in there. I'm going to delete that now because I don't want more titles in my list. I actually want less. I'm going to delete that there. Okay. I'm going to go back up to T. And what I need to do next is put in my title. I want to use this one, and I'm going to actually duplicate it because like I said, I like to keep the titles in my title category in case I want to reuse them. You'll see that I used watercolor as a category in Lisa Lance's brushes. If I had already had that there, it doesn't make sense for me to make another brush. I can just keep using and duplicating this one. I'm going to grab it the same way I grabbed all those brushes, but I'm only grabbing one this time with my other hand. I'm going to select la and then I'm going to drop it up there. I dropped it at the top. Okay. Now, I have one other set from her that I want to move, which is the squash lover set, just as a reminder, what I would do is, first of all, I'm going to get rid of these things, and then I'm going to go back on my text layer edit text, and then I'm going to actually change it to guash. We're just going to hope I spelled it right. I think that I did. If I didn't already have one of these, I would check that. I'm going to get out of that and look at it seems fine to me. Three finger swipe down, copy all because I'm copying it so that I can paste it into the new rush. Go back to my title brush set. We're going to duplicate one of them. It doesn't really matter which one. We're just duplicating all of those settings that we already put together and go to the shape it, import paste done. Then I can change if I go to about this brush, I could change this to be titled as done, and it's done, and you have a new title. What I will do then is I want to duplicate that title, take the top one, and move it over to the bottom here. Sometimes it doesn't go exactly where you want, as you can see there, and I'm just going to move that one above. I have the guash stuff there. What I want to do next is select her guash brushes, select one to make it blue, and then The rest of them, you want to move over, like this. Grab, move it up, grab it and then move it a little bit. Go back to the TLA library that you're creating, go to the bottom, and drop it I actually dropped right where I wanted it to. Sometimes it'll drop above where I want it. I find it easiest if you're going to do this, and you have more than two brush libraries to move. Either put it at the top, each one you're doing or put it at the bottom. Because if you put it in the middle, it's a little bit harder to tell if you got the whole brush library in the section that you wanted it. This was in the middle and say some of them went in the wrong area, that could be a problem. Then you just want to remember to find that other set and nothing's in it. I'm going to delete it. Now, you could also do this in a way where you would keep those brush libraries as well separately. But what I'm trying to do is downsize because my list goes on for 300 years. I'm trying to consolidate some things with that. I hope you found this helpful if you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment or a question in the discussion area, and I will respond as soon as again. 12. Brush Share: Since recording these videos, I've created a lot of different titles, as you can see here. And I figured, why not share them. So I'm going to share these in the project and resources section of this course, which you can download if you're on a browser from that section, and then it'll just show up as one of your brush libraries. I know you all know how to put brushes in your brush library, so I won't tell you how to do that. So you can use these if you want or create your own. You can also start from one of these, duplicate, create your own. I linked the font that I used for these in the project section and the description. In case you wanted to get that font and use the same font. Otherwise, you can use any font that you like. I hope you find this helpful. I think it's still useful to create your own to figure out how to create your own so that you can create other kinds of brush stamps. I think it's really cool. But I figured this was tedious and I thought it would be helpful to share it.