
This feature will prevent you from marking up your canvas accidentally with anything other than your Apple Pencil. You can put your eraser away and eliminate random marks entirely by turning on Disable Touch actions. Going back to erase every single line is pretty annoying. Have you noticed that you’ve accidentally created random marks all over your canvas while trying to add line work and details?ĭon't worry, we've all been there. The next time you need to create a canvas, simply select the preset and you’ll be good to go. One of the coolest things about Procreate is that you’ll only need to set up a custom canvas once!Īfter you create your own canvas, the Procreate app will save all of your settings automatically as a new preset template. Here are the settings that I’d recommend: Will the drawing be for social media or will it be a print? When setting your DPI, you’ll need to know how your drawing will be used.


Go to the color palette layer (top right corner) and tap onto the first empty box in the new color palette section to drop the color in. Tap and move the circle on the image to pick a color. Now, you can eye-drop the colors from the image, go to the ‘square box on the left bar to enable a circle on the image. Hit the ‘+’ sign to start a new palette and rename it. Go to the Color Panel on the top right corner. Then, hide all of the other three layers. On the top left corner, click on the wrench icon and hit ‘Insert a Photo’ĭeselect it and then, repeat step a) for the second, third and fourth images.

Our color palette will be derived from them.

You can either use all 4 palettes to create your own or just work off of one of these and work with a tighter, smaller palette. There are other tools that you can use to automatically generate colors off of the picture ( Canva) or explore the most popular color palettes ( Coolors) Pick 1-4 palettes from based on what you are painting and take a screenshot of each. One of my favorite places on Instagram to find inspiration for color palettes is Their posts are inspired by movies and the color palettes are generated off of them. Start off by finding some inspiration from Pinterest, Instagram etc. Wonder how to make color palettes in Procreate? In today’s tutorial, I walk you through my exact steps to create your own color palettes.
