Procreate Day 4: Using Photos

This day’s new information is all about bringing in and working with photos in Procreate, but the most important thing to accomplish on this day is letting the students practice in Procreate and answering questions that come up.

Objectives

Students will:

  • Insert images into documents
  • Drag and drop files into the document
  • Understand adjustment options
  • Understand destructive editing
  • Know that brushes can be modified and where to modify them

Outline

Inserting Images
Split Screen
More Adjustments
Creating a Poster/ Flier
Customize Brushes

Page Assist

Example Lesson Plan

Remember that this is just and example of a lesson plan to give you ideas. You should make your own lesson plan.

Intro:

  • Who has done some art in procreate since last time?
  • Does anyone have anything they would like to share that they have been working on?
  • Any questions from last time?

Hook Examples: Hero Mashup Poster, Cat Party Flier

  • Why would we want to use images (like photos) in procreate?
  • Search an image in Google images
  • Add to photos
  • Wrench > add > insert a photo
  • Take a photo is a great option if you have a sketch you did on paper

Drag and drop image with split screen

  • If you have used split screen before say yes. How do you do it?
  • Three dots at the top, tap the middle icon that is split down the middle
  • Once it splits the screen in two, open up safari, google, or another browser in the second half of the screen
  • Look up images and drag and drop them into your procreate workspace, make sure to open the image and then drag it over so you don’t grab the low quality thumbnail image

Selections and Masking

  • Use freehand select and draw around the edge of an object, when you close up the marching ants use the move tool to relocate your selection and erase the residue, or three finger swipe, cut and paste, delete the layer with residue
  • Use automatic selection, tap on background, adjust threshold, erase the selected background or invert and relocate selection (works best on solid backgrounds)
  • Non-destructive way: create a layer mask on your image, paint in black to hide background and white to reveal

Adjustments:

  • Adjustments allow you to put effects on your layers (drawings or photos)
  • Hue Saturation Brightness- change the color of a layer, great for experimenting with color schemes
  • Curves- adjust brightness and contrast
  • Liquify- let’s you distort an image
  • Blur- gaussian, perspective, motion
  • Adjust the intensity of any effect you apply with slider at the top of the screen

Review: Adding text

  • Who remembers how to add text?
  • Wrench, add, add text
  • If you want text to behave like your drawings do (i.e. be able to use alpha lock, distort, etc.) you can tap on the layer menu of a text layer, then tap rasterize
  • Once you rasterize text you CANNOT edit it in the text editor anymore

Activity: Give students time to add text and draw graphics in their project, adding to the photos they brought in

Custom Brushes

  • Has anyone ever made their own brush before?
  • Tap on any brush to edit its properties
  • You can import brushes from online
  • Tap on the plus sign in the brush menu to create a brush
  • Create a simple brush with the class, show how to import shapes from their photos or the source library
  • Talk about spacing/jitter, stabilization, color dynamics, About this brush

Page Assist

  • (You can have students open a new document, or just watch and follow along)
  • Open up book of brushes file
  • To create and edit documents in procreate, Wrench> Turn on page assist
  • Just like animation, frames become pages
  • Each layer is its own page, if you make layer groups you can have multiple layers on a page

Conclusion:

  • We have learned a lot in this class. I hope you have all learned something that will be useful to you in your artwork
  • I always like to mention the alternatives to the programs we teach, although in this case
    • Fresco
    • Photoshop
    • Affinity Photo
  • Sign up for other classes this summer!  
  • Are there other iPad apps you would be interested in there being classes on?

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