Copy & Paste in Procreate | Save Hours of Work

Hey artists! If you've ever been working on a piece and wish you could just duplicate an element without drawing it all over again, today's tutorial is going to save you so much time. The most common way is copying and pasting a selection. To do this, you'll tap the selection tool or the S icon, choose freehand or automatic, select what you want to copy, wipe down with three fingers, then tap copy and paste. This instantly creates a new layer with your copied object so you can move it around freely. If you want to duplicate everything on a layer, you'll go to the layers panel, swipe left on the layer, and tap duplicate. This is basically copy and paste, but it's faster for doing absolute full layers. There's also a manual way. You'll select your object, swipe down with three fingers, tap copy, swipe down again, and select paste. This gives you more control if you don't want to paste right away. You can also select the layer's image on the left side and click copy as well. Just remember if you do that last one as well, it needs to be the whole entire layer that you want to copy, not just one object. If you don't see the copy menu, make sure your gesture controls are on. Just remember selection and copy paste is the fastest, duplicate layers is the easiest, and copy menu gives you the most control. Be sure to like and subscribe for more art content, and I'll see you in the next one. Bye!