Procreate Brush Studio: Properties

This is part 10 of our 11-part series covering Brush Studio. In this video, we'll be focusing on the Properties settings. For this example, we're going to use the round brush in the painting set. Now, let's find Properties down on the left side, just here. Just to be different, let's start at the bottom with Brush Behavior, then work our way up. The bottom two sliders here let us adjust the minimum and maximum opacity values that our brush is able to produce. Just above this, we have two sliders for our brush's size, min and max. Above Brush Behavior is Brush Properties. Our primary tools, the Paint tool, Smudge tool and the Eraser tool, all share the same brush library. The Smudge slider here adjusts the strength of effect whenever we're using this brush with the Smudge tool. We can set this value to be triggered with pressure as well. We can do this by tapping on the value field, make sure we have some amount input for us to trigger. We're using 70%, then we move across to Pressure and toggle Pressure Enabled on. From here, we can create a custom pressure curve by tapping to place nodes on our graph. But let's leave Curves alone for now and we'll keep moving on. The Preview slider above will adjust the size of our brush any time our brush is being previewed. This includes its appearance here in the Brush Library. Let's jump back in and increase this a bit. Now I'm back in the library and our brush looks suitably more imposing. This is also reflected in the Preview stroke whenever we enter into Brush Studio. It's worth a mention that this isn't changing the core size of our brush at all. A lot like adjusting the brush size from a canvas while we're working. In fact, it's exactly like that as the Preview Size slider found in the Drawing Pad menu is an exact mirror of the Preview slider found within Properties. Just a little more accessible. Next up is Orient to Screen. Toggle this on and our brush's shape direction will change with our device's screen orientation. But we don't need to worry about that here because we're using a perfect circle for our brush shape. Last here at the top is Stamp Preview. Having this toggled on will make any preview of our brush be displayed as a single stamp of the brush. This also replaces the Preview stroke we get when we first open into Brush Studio. It does not, however, affect the brush's behavior in any way. As we leave Brush Studio, if we ever commit any change to one of our brushes that we're not happy with and we have a reset point saved, or if we've made any unwanted changes to one of the library's default brushes, we can swipe left on the brush from inside the library then hit Reset on the right side to restore the brush to its saved default settings.