How to Create a new Canvas Preset in Procreate

In this video we'll take a look at creating and editing a new canvas preset. So let's make a start. Now that we're inside the gallery, which is where all of our artworks are stored, we can create a new blank canvas with the plus button in the top right corner. This opens a list containing all of our saved canvas presets, but we're going to create a new canvas preset. So let's tap the custom canvas icon just here at the top. The first set of options is dimensions, and it's here we can input our width and height, and we can set these in millimeters, centimeters, inches, or pixels. A lot of the settings we'll be looking at while creating this preset do require a little bit of forethought about the intended purpose of the canvas. Just here for example, we can change the dots per inch. This new preset is going to be an A3 size canvas that'll be used for creating posters with the intention of going to print, so 300 dpi will be good for this purpose. Below this we can see the maximum number of layers for our canvas, and we can see this change dynamically as we edit the height and width. At any time we can tap the namespace here at the top, and input a name for our preset, but we'll take a look at editing our preset later, so let's leave this untitled for now. Let's move down the list and take a look at color profiles. Here we can choose between any RGB or CMYK color profiles that we have installed, and we can import new profiles that we have stored on our device with the import button just here. Let's grab the generic CMYK profile for this preset, and we'll move on to our time-lapse replay settings. Here at the top we can Next down is the quality of the capture itself. If we wanted to max out these replay settings, they will increase our file size, but they will not affect the layer limit of our canvas, and it's worth a mention that if we want to keep those file sizes down, then time-lapses can be disabled or purged completely from inside the video settings of an active canvas later. HEVC recording is toggled off by default because it's kind of the hot new thing, and compatibility could be a concern. Not going to go into detail about video codecs here, but if you're interested, it's definitely worth looking into online. The next set of options is canvas properties. Here we can set our starting background color. Tapping the color button here gives us all of our usual color selection tools. This includes all of our saved palettes as well. Nobody would complain if we had a palette or two full of background colors, and under this we can choose to have our background layer hidden completely using the toggle here. If at any time we want to just return to the gallery and discard this new preset, we can hit the cancel button just here. But we've come this far, and everything seems good, so let's hit create. And this is our new canvas. Now let's jump back to the gallery, open our list of presets again, and at the bottom of this list is our new preset. Swiping left on a preset reveals the edit and delete buttons. We need to give our new preset a name, so let's hit edit, tap on the namespace, call this A3, and we can just hit save at the top. We can drag and drop our presets and reorder them however we'd like, and once we have our canvas presets set up, then we're only ever a few quick taps away from making a start in Procreate.