How to make gradients in Procreate the easy way! (2020) - Procreate Tips -- Ghost Paper

Today I'm going to show you how to make gradients on Procreate as easily and efficiently as possible. And we're starting right now. Welcome everyone, my name is Leo and I'm the creator behind Ghost Paper and welcome to another Procreate tips and tricks video series. In the world of digital illustration, gradients can be extremely necessary when we're finishing a new piece of artwork. Even though Procreate is a great design tool that offers us the freedom to draw, paint, distort and color correct our images, it doesn't really have an icon or a feature that generates gradients on itself. So I'm going to show you what I think is the current and easiest way to make gradients without having you to spend too much time on the program. And if you're new to the channel, make sure to hit the subscribe button down below and to also turn on the bell notifications so you don't miss any of these tips. Also, if you enjoy these kinds of videos, make sure to check this link here on the top right corner of the video as I'm putting the playlist of all the tips and tricks that I currently have on Procreate. So the more I make these videos, the bigger the library of knowledge in this playlist will be. And that is all for you to just learn so that we can learn together. Also, speaking about learning, let me know in the comment section down below what is the topic that you would like to see in future videos for tips and tricks on Procreate. And I'll try my best to answer everyone and add these to the list of content. But now without any further ado, let's jump into Procreate so I can show you how this is done. Okay, now that we're here, I just want to quickly first show you what we can do with just two color values. So first, I'm going to create a new layer, which is already here, and I'm just going to pick two random colors. I'm going to get this blue right here. And then I'm going to create another layer. And I'm going to pick my second color, which will be brighter red. So now as you can see, I've got two layers. I'm going to zoom out just a little bit, select my red layer, and I'm going to just bring it down to the point where I want to start blending the gradients. So now I have it just about half here, just so you can see. And where we're going to go now within the red layer selected, we're going to go into the adjustments and look for a Gaussian blur. And now by tweaking that blur all the way to the maximum, that's where we're going to generate our gradient. So that's one way to generate a gradient with two values. So now you could just merge the two layers with a pinch, making sure you select both layers. And now you have your first gradient with two values. So now the process of making one with multiple colors is pretty much the same. In this case, we're going to start with the red here. You can make another layer and kind of create rectangles if you like to. So we're just going to make one right here. I'll set it about this much. And then we are going to make another one and I'll set it to maybe, this one's going to look pretty crazy. Let's see how this turns out. Hopefully not a blended mess. So let's put blue at the very end. And now what I have to do, because I have now so many values here, I'm just going to blend them all together into one layer. And now doing the same trick with a Gaussian blur, I'm just going to drag it all the way to basically where I want to. As you can see here, if I leave it at 50%, you'll still get a little bit of all the colors and all the shades. But if you bring it all the way to the maximum, I hope my arm's not covering too much here, you start to have like a full, full blend of all the values. And some values might actually blend it so much that you start to lose them in a way. Basically like a smoother finish. You may like that more than to have all the, seeing all the streaks of the gradient. And the last thing that I want to show you is that sometimes you may want to generate a gradient within a shape. Because right now, all that we're doing is that we're generating gradients within the full on canvas. Say like as if we were painting a background element, a background sky. So in order to achieve this, we're going to go back to our layers manager here. This is our gradient layer. That's what we want to be within a mask. Our circle here is going to be the shape that we want as a mask. And the middle layer will be our magic trick. So the first thing we want to do is click on the gradient layer and you're going to select clipping mask. And you see points this little arrow down to where we we're going to do our magic. Then I'm going to click on the shape that we want to make a mask off. And I'm going to select the option select now so that we have a mask. And now you can drag any color to make a fill. And now we have our gradient within shape. And that's pretty much how you make the gradient now within the shape. It can be any shape that you create. And now you can move the mask and you see that you get the different values of your gradient, which is really, really nice. And another way as well, as if you don't want to move the selection mask per se, is that you can click on a gradient itself and then move the gradient up and down until you find the nicest result for whatever image that you are creating. So that's it for this video. I hope you've enjoyed the content. And if you did, it would be super helpful if you could leave a thumbs up. Also subscribe to the channel if you haven't yet. And make sure to check the videos here on the right side. There's a couple of recommended videos that I think you may enjoy as well. Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you on the next one.