- Hi friends, my name is Karin,
and I'm here to help you get the most out of your iPad,
whether that is with lettering, or art, or journaling.
If you are already familiar with my channel,
then of course you know that I'm a huge fan of Procreate.
It's my all time favorite iPad app.
And so of course I was super excited
when I saw version 5.2 come out last week.
There are so many new features.
I'm actually surprised they didn't call it version six.
In this video, I'm going to focus on all the new features
related to brushes.
So I'm not going to touch on the new 3D features
because I'm actually only a beginner when it comes to 3D.
So we're going to focus on all the new brush features
and then I'll make another video
once I have familiarized myself
with the new 3D features as well.
But now let's jump right into the first feature,
which is the ability to save brush sizes
and brush opacities.
I don't know about you,
but I have been creating copies of my brushes
because I wanted to keep the size, and you can see here,
we have my Totally Crispy brush has a size of 5%,
but then I also made a copy,
which is size 3%, and another copy, which is size 8%.
And so I was so excited I no longer have to do this.
So if I wanted to save all these different sizes
of my brush, all I have to do is go to my original one,
tap on the Size and you can see here
how there's a little plus here.
So now I tap on the plus, and this will lock it in,
so now if I change the size to anything else,
I can just tap on the mark here
and it will jump right back into that.
So now let's see some of the other sizes.
So this one here is 3%, and I'm gonna go back
to my Totally Crispy brush, and then change it to 3%,
and then lock this in as well.
And so we can do the same thing for the other brushes too.
And then we can actually get rid of the duplicate brushes,
and that makes it so much nicer and so much more organized.
And now I can just tap
and change between the different brush sizes
and I don't have to have four different brushes anymore.
So let's tidy these up right now and delete,
and we don't need them anymore, which is fantastic.
All right, so now this brings me to the next feature,
and I'm super excited about this as well, of course,
and that is the ability to see the recently used brushes.
So now when you scroll up in your Brush Library
all the way to the top,
you'll see that they say Recent folder here now,
and this now shows my most recently used brushes.
It will automatically save up to 10 brushes
that you've used recently.
And then for the brushes that you use most often,
and that you don't want to get replaced,
what you can do now is pin a brush to the most recent top.
So you can see there's a little star here,
and this means that this is pinned now.
And you can do that with more than one
if you have more than one favorite brush.
You can pin these here, and then only the bottom brushes
will get replaced.
And so the way that these get added
to the most recent folder
is that you have to start using a brush.
So let's, for example,
use this brush and then you go to Recent,
and you can see now how this has been added here
below my two pinned brushes.
But then of course it's possible
that you might not like this
to be in your recent brushes anymore.
So what you can do now is swipe to the left,
and then you can tap on Clear.
And I'm actually really happy that this is called clear
and not remove or delete because all it does
is it clears it from this recent brush list.
It doesn't delete the brush, it just clears it out.
But then let's say you were gonna use it again,
and then it just pops back in here.
And then another really nice feature here
is that you can also find a brush, so these brushes,
they come from all the different brush sets
that you might already have.
And sometimes it's a bit hard to remember
where they came from.
So you can swipe to the left, and then tap on Find.
And now we are jumping into the Dream Lettering brush site
where all these brushes are and the Inky Fountain Pen brush
is right here as well.
Super handy feature, and I've already made use of this
so many times, so I'm very happy about this as well.
And then the next feature I wanna show you
are some additional stabilization features.
Up until now, we've had the StreamLine setting
for Procreate brushes,
but now Procreate have added some additional help
with stabilization.
So I'm gonna show you how this works now.
And in order to demonstrate this,
I'm going to select my Traditional Calligraphy brush.
So let's write the word calligraphy,
and you can see this brush is a really nice,
fine calligraphy brush.
And this brush has currently got the StreamLine setting
turned on to the max.
And so it's really nice,
and it really helps with the wobbles.
So there we go, I've obviously practiced this for a bit,
and my wobbles are not too bad,
but I actually usually practice my lettering
in the evening because I find my hands
are a lot steadier than in the morning.
In the morning when I drink coffee,
I find my hands a little bit shaky,
and that's why I never practice my lettering in the morning.
But now let's see what happens
if we turn on these additional stabilization features
in Procreate.
So we're gonna go back to the brush menu,
and we're going to the Brush Studio,
and you can see here how there's a new Stabilization tab
that's been added to the menu.
And at the moment,
my brush has just got that StreamLine setting
set to the max,
and then all these other settings have not been enabled yet.
So now let's see what happens when we enable these settings.
And in order to try this out,
you can use the drawing pad here.
So what you wanna do
is actually just create a little scribble to start with,
which will then clear out that preview of your brush.
And so now when you change the settings here,
you can see how that stabilization
affects the brush stroke.
And there's two different settings here,
there's Stabilization,
and then there's also Motion Filtering.
And the difference between the two
is that Motion Filtering uses a much more advanced algorithm
in determining how to smoothen out your brush stroke.
So I actually don't recommend using Stabilization.
I think Motion Filtering's a much better setting.
So you've got Amount and you've got Expression,
and what you'll see when you start moving this
is that the brush strokes get smaller, ever so slightly.
So now what's happening here is that Procreate
is trying to determine the middle
between all these extremities here,
and that's why the brush strokes get a little bit shorter,
but obviously this is not what we want.
We actually want these curves
because these shape our letter forms.
So what you wanna do instead
is turn up the Expression setting.
We're gonna turn this down ever so slightly,
and then turn up Expression instead.
So now the line looks the same as it did before,
but it will still help you with your wobbles.
So now let's go back and let's try it out.
So let's write the word calligraphy again,
and see what the difference is.
And it's entirely possible
that you might not see much of a difference,
especially if your calligraphy
is already really, really good,
then you most likely won't notice too much of a difference,
but, you know, if you're a beginner
or if you haven't practiced too much yet,
if you've got a new iPad
and this is maybe something that you're just starting with,
then you will find this setting extremely useful.
And you'll find that this is so much more enjoyable
because your lines will be nice and smooth,
and you will find it so much easier
to practice your lettering
with these additional settings.
So not too much of a difference between the two,
but I felt ever so slightly more comfortable
with the second setting.
And there's something else that I want to show you as well.
So you can do this per brush setting,
but there's actually also at global setting
where you can apply this to all brushes.
So it's totally up to you
whether you wanna adjust the individual brushes
or whether you just want to have the setting apply
to all of your brushes.
We want to click on the Actions icon,
and then go to Preferences, and you see
that there is now this Pressure and Smoothing menu.
So if we tap on that,
you can see that we've also got Stabilization,
Motion Filtering, and Motion Filtering Expression,
and also the App Pressure Sensitivity here.
This graph here has already existed before,
but I think they've just simplified the UI a little bit.
Because it makes sense
to have the Apple Pencil pressure curve here as well.
Of course we can play with these as well,
unfortunately it's not as easy to get a preview
of these settings.
That's why I recommend that you try it
on the brush settings first,
and then once you know the setting that you want,
you can go and apply it in the global settings.
And again, I don't recommend using Stabilization,
but I recommend maybe using a little bit
of Motion Filtering,
and then also adding the Motion Filtering Expression.
And then of course you can also change the pressure curve
of your Apple Pencil by moving this graph around.
So if you're a little bit more heavy handed like myself,
you might want to decrease the pressure here like this.
So now when I'm writing,
I'm actually gonna have to put on quite a lot of pressure
to get the thick and thin strokes.
But if you don't enjoy putting a lot of pressure
on your Apple Pencil,
then I recommend you change it the other way.
So we're gonna go back to Pressure & Smoothing,
and we're gonna turn that curve this way.
So now you don't have to put a lot of pressure
on your Apple Pencil,
and it'll make a thicker stroke a lot easier.
So you can see now how this is much easier
to put a thicker stroke on your iPad.
But personally, I prefer leaving this as the default.
So if you wanna go back to the default,
you can tap on it and tap Reset,
or if you wanna reset everything, you can also do Reset All.
And these are the settings
that I'm personally going to be using.
All right, and then you might've also noticed
that there's a new setting here
called Dynamic Brush Scaling, and it's turned on by default.
And the reason why that is
is because it's always been there before,
but now you have the ability to turn it off.
And in order to show that,
we're going to create a new canvas.
And I also wanna show you a new feature,
which is the ability
to create really, really large canvases.
If you have one of the new 2021 iPads
with one terabyte of storage or more,
your iPad will have 16 gigabytes of RAM,
and all this RAM is now actually usable by Procreate.
This is another super cool feature
that I'm personally very excited about.
So now you can create canvases of 12,000 pixels
by 10,000 pixels, or you can also do 16,000 by 8,000,
which is the largest size that you can create,
but I prefer this aspect ratio.
And then you'll have a maximum of 11 layers.
But to me, this is amazing.
This is really another step
towards not needing to create vector art
for really, really large artwork.
So now let's tap Create,
and I wanna show you the dynamic scaling feature.
So now, we're going to go back,
and we are going to select the Totally Crispy brush.
Let's choose the biggest size here,
and so now what happens if I write something here,
and then I resize,
and then maybe I'll keep drawing,
and I'll resize it again, and I keep drawing.
You'll see how my stroke is the same thickness,
no matter the scale of the page.
And this is what I'm used to,
so I recommend not changing it,
but I still wanna show you what it looks like
if you do change it.
So now we're going to the Actions menu,
and we're going to turn off Dynamic Brush Scaling.
And so now what happens is that to start with my stroke
is a lot thicker, but then if I change the size,
it makes it even thicker, change it again,
and it makes it thicker again, and thicker again.
So now it doesn't adjust that thickness of my stroke
when I zoom in or out of my canvas.
I just wanted to show you this feature and what it's for,
but I recommend that you don't change the default.
So now we're going to change this back,
and we are going to leave it,
and now it should be back to normal, and yes it is.
I really hope you found this video useful.
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and then I'm also going to pop up another couple of videos
so that you can keep watching
and you can keep learning more about Procreate.
Thank you so much for watching,
and I'll see you in my next video!