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- [Instructor] Hello, iPad Letterers,
and welcome back to "Show Me Your Florals."
In today's video,
we are going to talk a little bit more about Procreate
and all the tools that you will need
for your florals paintings.
I'm also going to show you some little tricks
you might not know about.
So even if you have been using Procreate before,
you might find this helpful.
Let's open up one of our canvases
so that we can have a look around the user interface.
This is probably my favorite thing about Procreate.
It's so easy to use.
There's not too many options,
and the options you have are usually quite obvious.
One of the things I get asked a lot
is why my Procreate looks different,
and it's because I've chosen the light UI setting.
Let me show you how you can change this yourself.
So we are going to go to the actions
and then the preferences, and you can see here at the top,
how it says light interface.
So you can toggle this to the dark interface,
or you can toggle it back to that light interface.
The reason why I have it set to the light interface
is because it's my personal preference,
but then also for the videos,
it's actually much easier for you to see.
And so that's why I have set it like this.
You can also switch between the right hand
or the left hand interface, which is quite handy as well.
So if you're a lefty, then you might like to have
your controls here on the right side.
But because I'm right handed,
I like having the controls here on the left side.
And then this setting here,
where it says edit pressure curve,
this lets to adjust your Apple pencil pressure settings.
This is not required for painting florals,
but if you would like to learn more about this,
I actually have another video
where I'm going into much more detail
about how you can change the Apple pencil pressure curve,
and I will leave a link in the description box
of this video.
And then next up we have gesture controls,
and you can see there is so many different settings
that you can try out, but don't worry.
You don't need to know them all.
I have just a few that I would like to show you
that I personally find very useful.
The first one here is disable touch actions,
and I very much recommend that you turn this on,
because it means you don't accidentally draw
on the iPad with your fingers.
You can only draw with the Apple pencil.
If you find that your palm rejection
doesn't work well enough,
then definitely turn on this setting here.
And then another setting I find quite useful
is in the copy and paste menu,
especially if you have an Apple pencil 2,
with the flat edge.
You can use this to set up a double-tap action,
and I've set mine to bring up the copy and paste menu,
which I find quite useful.
And then one other setting I would like to show you
is the eye dropper, you can set the delay,
especially if you're creating a lot of color palettes,
having to hold the finger down for too long can be annoying.
Vice versa, if you find that the color picker
pops up too quickly,
you can change the delay setting here,
but definitely feel free to try this out
and see how you can set up your perfect Procreate interface.
And then of course,
we have all the brushes,
and this is where they all are nicely organized
into brush sets.
At the top here, you should have
your "Show Me Your Florals" brush set,
which we imported yesterday,
and then of course, we have all the brushes
that Procreate ships with as well.
I'll be showing you how to use the brushes
we imported yesterday as part of this course,
but I definitely recommend that you try out
the default Procreate brushes too.
Some of my favorites include the old beach brush,
which is this one here,
and then also the wet sponge brush.
And I've actually added them
to the "Show Me Your Florals" brush set,
just so that we have them handy right here.
Next up, we have the smudge tool,
and what's really cool about this is that you can use
the same brushes for painting and also for smudging.
And we will definitely be using this feature
for our florals painting.
And then the same applies to the eraser tool.
Again, you have all the brushes available to erase as well.
And the benefit of using the same brushes for erasing
is that you can avoid creating harsh edges
when you erase something.
And then over here, we have the layer selection tool,
and in order to demonstrate this,
I need to paint something on the screen first.
So I paint something, and now I can select this object.
I can move it around. I can zoom it.
I can make it bigger or smaller.
And you also see that this brings up a number of different
options, and these are actually really cool,
so you can select warp, for example,
so you can completely warp this shape
and make it a different shape if you would like to.
And then next up here,
we have the freehand selection tool,
and this lets you mark parts of your layer
and then make a selection from that.
So if I wanted to cut out this part of my shape,
I can go copy and paste,
and now this is going to be put on a new layout.
And so I can cut things out if I want to.
Really handy to know as well.
This is all you will need to know about Procreate
in order to paint florals.
Your homework for today is to try out
some of the default Procreate brushes
with both the brush and the smudge tool
to see the difference,
and then also to try their brushes, eight different sizes.
You can change that brush size here,
and then the opacity here.
So I would like you to try this out
to familiarize yourself with these options.
Have fun with this little exercise,
and then I will see you in the next video.
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