Coral flowers and long green leaves in a cobalt vase, beside a yellow pear

A field guide
to Procreate.

Practical help for the art you want to make.

A little more control.

A yellow pear, dark green leaves and a painted color swatch over cobalt brushwork

Clipping masks, without the guesswork

Keep your brushwork inside the shape you intended.

Working with layers

Alpha Lock or a clipping mask?When your layer limit gets in the way Choose the part you want to change Explore the layers guides

Broad cobalt, ivory and lilac brushstrokes with a dark green line

Find the right
kind of mark.

Understand your brush settings

Shape, grain and pressure: what changes the stroke.

Browse brush guides

Before
you share it.

Choose a canvas size for printPlan the dimensions before the first stroke.Export a clean
transparent PNG Canvas & export guides

Printed artwork of flowers and a cobalt vase arranged on ivory paper

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Cobalt shading on a separate layer follows a coral rocket silhouette.

Procreate Clipping Masks: Paint Inside a Shape Without Erasing the Base

Keep shading on a separate clipping-mask layer, identify the shared base in a clipped chain, and check layer order before repainting a missing effect.

A cobalt ribbon and flat grid bend around a Liquify brush contact.

Procreate Liquify: Distort a Copy and Keep the Original Recoverable

Warp a duplicate with Push or directional Twirl, control the stroke strength, and finish Reconstruct or Amount changes before committing.

Cobalt fill and a narrow inner fringe inside an angular ink outline.

Procreate ColorDrop Threshold: Stop a Fill From Leaking

Lower Threshold for a leaking fill, raise it carefully for an inner fringe, and inspect the remembered value before the next ColorDrop.

Poster elements align to a canvas guide while another star moves along a constrained direction.

Procreate Snapping vs. Magnetics: Why Does an Object Jump or Lock?

Check Snapping for jumps to an edge or center, and Magnetics for constrained motion. Distance and Velocity adjust Snapping only.

A kingfisher wing edge shown as hard pixel steps and a softer painted contour.

Procreate Transform Interpolation: Nearest, Bilinear, or Bicubic?

Compare Transform methods on a duplicate: preserve intended pixel steps, painted transitions or thin lines at the final viewing size.

Colors from a coastal image form a palette for a painted landscape.

Make a Procreate Color Palette from a Photo or File

Create swatches from a photo or JPG/PNG file, rename the palette, set it active and save a shareable copy before deleting it.

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