Top 5 Mistakes in Procreate

Here's the top 5 of mistakes that get made in Procreate and a way to solve or fix them. Number one. Issues with filling shapes. Do you ever have that issue that when you make a shape and you fill it, that you get this this weird little edge? It took me a while to figure this one out and I kept just painting over the edges to fix it but there's an easier way. Instead of painting over the edges, next time you fill a shape, first drag in the color and then hold your pen in place so you can move it to the right or left to adjust the color drop threshold here at the top and when you move it up you'll see that that little edge will disappear. Another issue when filling shapes is that paint is spilling out all over your canvas. It can help to lower your color drop threshold instead of turning it up but also always make sure that your shapes are closed. So your shapes need to be either closed or your line needs to go from left to right on your canvas touching the sides of your canvas. So let's say you're creating these mountains because you're following a tutorial of mine and you drag in the color but it spills out all over and it doesn't matter if you adjust the color drop threshold, it keeps spilling out. Then be sure to check out that you're not zoomed in on your canvas. It might be that you're zoomed in and that your lines aren't connected to the sides at all. So as soon as you close them on the sides moving all the way to the sides of the canvas you won't be having that problem anymore. Number two. Clipping mask is not working. You have set your layer to clipping mask but still when you draw your shapes go outside of the shape you want them to stay in. What's going on here? When you go to your layer menu you see that you have indeed clipped your layer to the other layer. Now the issue here is that this layer is merged with the background color. So this entire layer is filled with paint. Clipping mask only works when the outside of the shape is transparent. So make sure that when you check your layers that when you look at your shape that the outside is all gray. There's no paint there. And you can check by tapping the layer turning on alpha lock and then you'll see a little checkerboard pattern around your shape. And when you then use clipping mask whatever you draw it'll only show up on the shape. Number three. Pixelation. You've been working so hard on your painting but when you look at it you see all these pixels. Now a painting in Procreate it'll always consist of pixels. If you zoom in very close then eventually you will see pixels. But when you see pixels when you zoom in only a little or when you're not even zoomed in at all then something is going on. Your canvas is not big enough. And you can check the size of your canvas by going to the wrench then to canvas then to canvas information and then when you go to dimensions over here you see that this canvas is 600 by 800 pixels and that's very small. To get a less pixelated look I would go for something in the thousands. This canvas is 3000 by 4000 pixels and when you zoom in it won't see many pixels. You see that it's nice and crisp. And to change the amount of pixels in your canvas you can go to the wrench again to canvas and then to crop and resize. If your canvas is too small then you can go to settings use resample canvas and then adjust these settings. Just make sure that you do this at the beginning of your painting process because if your painting is already finished and you make it bigger it'll still look pixelated. Number four. Your colors look different. The colors will always look slightly different across devices and they will also look different because I am using a lighting setup. I'm recording my iPad so small differences are natural. But if your drawing looks like this then something is going on. Now of course this is an extreme example but always make sure that you are using the same color profile. To check your color profile you can go to the wrench then to canvas and then to canvas information again and then go to color profile. I always have my color profile set to srgbiec long code and if your color profile is set to display p3 for example then your colors will look different. So you can either change your color profile over here tap the color profile then tap done or you can make sure that you have the right color profile when you set up your canvas. To set up a new custom canvas you can go to your gallery and then to the plus and then tap this little plus icon here and here you can set the size of your canvas. Make sure it's big enough so you don't get the pixelation issue and here under color profile you can set the color profile and then when you tap create you will have a canvas that has the right color profile. You can also give it a name like color profile and tap create and then in the gallery you will always be able to find your color profile canvas so you can use it again and again. Number five your selection tool isn't working. Let's say you're trying to follow this tutorial about creating this landscape and you want to use the selection tool the s shape ribbon set to freehand and you want to add some more texture here on this mountain side. You want it to be inside of the selection and when you go to your brush it's pink or whatever color it's not a selection anymore. What's going on here is you have the selection set to color fill. Always make sure that you turn off color fill before you start making a selection that way you will be able to make a selection and then go to your brush and then inside of that selection you will be able to paint and add that extra texture to your mountain for example. This was the top five mistakes that got made in procreate and ways to solve them. 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