In this lesson, let's take a look at all of the features from the canvas section and how we can stay organized in procreate. So as we can see, we got all of the thumbnails here on my canvas section. And those are composed by two kinds of elements. The first one is the illustrations. Those are single illustration files, there are just scattered around my canvas. The second group or the second type of item you can find here on the canvas section are the stacks and stacks can be two or more illustrations put together into groups.

That is so that you can organize by project client, or even interests you may have. So first, let's take a look at the first option on the canvas. section which is the select button. The very first option that we have are is deep stack option. It is so then that we can stack two or more illustrations together for the stack option. I'm just going to first create a quick example here, the studio pin, maximum size and maximum capacity.

I'm just going to name this one illustration a, I'm going to create a new illustration, name it be just so it's very clear and visible for you to understand the stacking process, we're going to click back on select and then you see that right away you have the circles which are checked once you click on the thumbnails. And although we have two or more options selected, you see that stack becomes available as I was just saying stack only works when Have two or more illustrations selected. So now you can just click on stack and those two illustrations have been stacked. You can then rename that stack by just clicking on the little name that is just underneath the thumbnail. I'm just going to name this stack one. Now I want to show you a more dynamic and a different way of stacking illustrations together.

For that I first need to ungroup these two illustrations I need to take take it out of the stacking mode. So we're going to go into the stack. We're going to click on a select and leave it selected. Don't take the pen out of your canvas, hover on to the title stack, you see flashes and you drop outside any of these stacks can be here it can be here can be here and it just repositions itself as single illustrations. Now the same process applies it again, if we want to stack them back together, I can just click and select, we go into hover mode, I go and I leave it on Be it flashes and is back to being stacked. So that is a more dynamic approach in terms of stacking illustrations together.

Another thing that you can do is to stack two or more groups together. However, they all become one group procreate at the moment doesn't really support sub stacking, or a stack within a stack. So for me to show how that works, I'm just going to click and hover the stack. And then I'm going to go on to this other stack and upon dropping the illustrations as you can see, they've been broken apart and now they are part of this same of this one stack right here. So as I was just saying, procreate, unfortunately it's not able to do that. Levels stacking, I can't actually drag eight inside be inside a stack.

That is just something to be mindful off. I can however unstack multiple illustrations at the same time. I'm going to select a and b, click and hover. Go hover onto the title and drag it back out onto the canvas. So let's take a look at what other things we can do on the Select menu. We also have the ability to preview your illustrations into one or multiple illustrations.

So if I click on this group here, and I press preview, I am now going through all of the illustrations of that group. If I want to go out of this preview mode, I can just pinch out to go back into my stack. I'm going to do it again with another folder. So I'm going to select this Stack, click Preview. Once again, going through all of the illustrations in the fill up the area of the iPad so that you can show to clients, friends, family, whoever you need to show your illustrations to. One thing to keep in mind is that once you're previewing your stack, some of the options such as pinching zoom, they don't actually work at the current version of this procreate beliefs.

If you just tap once on to the canvas, you then see the UI arrows which allow you to go back and forth on that preview stack. However, now I want to show you a dynamic way of previewing your illustrations without having to go into the illustrations with all the layers and the Edit ability that you can in procreate. So let's just say that you're looking at your stack and you just want to preview this pirate, you can use the pinching control and Pinch in to actually expand that image. Now that you're here, you're not necessarily inside this illustration in terms of being able to add it, but you're able to zoom in and show different parts of that illustration. If you do want to go in and make any changes, just double tap the illustration. In now you are in edit mode.

And once again just pressing gallery will take you back into the canvas section. Next up on select, we can also share or illustrations, and there are many different file formats of sharing in different ways of sharing as well. Let's go through a few examples. So I can show you the power of the sharing sub menu. You can share your illustrations as procreate files. And with that option for example, you can choose to send to friends or other users by Using a messaging or email application such as Slack, you can also send it to your cloud.

So using for example, your iCloud Drive, you can actually create a backup off your illustration, so that if anything happens, you're never going to lose the illustration you've just created. You can also share your illustrations as Photoshop files, PDFs JPEGs PNGs tips, and you can also make animated gifs, animated PNGs and even an mp4 for the top the first five extensions here which goes from PSD to tips, these are all still images so they're not animate animatable in any way. And for gifts PNGs and and befores. These are the animated files you can create on procreate and the premise of these animated animated files. It's actually quite simple. What it does, I'm just going to go in into one of my illustrations, it assumes that every frame is a layer in your illustration.

So basically, as you can see here, in my Layers panel, I have lights, I have some shadows, some base layers. So if I were to go select, click on this illustration share into an animated GIF. The effect that you see right here, this is basically just showing it's going through each layer at a time. And here you have the option of frames per second, which can be slower or faster. And so the more frames per second, the more the faster you will see your layers switching. You can also make your gifts as web ready, which means that there will be probably lighter in terms of size and resolution or you can keep them at four solution and original size.

If you decide to share them as MP force, you have the same amount of controls. If you're sharing your illustrations as PNGs, for example, you're then greeted with the top options, which are the programs or avenues you want to share your illustration. You can be again an iMessage or message, you can send it as an email. You can save it to share it albums and send it to other applications. You can save it to your camera roll or to your photos. You can copy print, save to your files in your iPad storage, and a few other options.

Now continuing with the Select menu, the next option that we have available is the duplicate option. And that is a really powerful tool at least in my when I'm printing Writing illustrations, because it allows me to create a duplicate of whatever I have and create an old version. And that can be changes in design that can be changes in color, and I don't have to necessarily modify anything with my previous version. Just be mindful that the title, the titles are not out of renamed in procreate in terms that he doesn't really write for example copy or Alt version. So make sure to just click on the title of the new copy and renamed to something that you will remember. Now, once they go into this illustration, for example, I can click on the base layer, going to my adjustments menu, going to color balance and start to make some changes.

So let's just say that I'm looking for a different color for the sphere. Once I'm happy with this, I'm just Gonna go back into my gallery. And now I can compare both illustrations. I can, you know, select both and hit preview and go through each one of them and then finally decide which one is best for whatever I'm creating. The last option on the Select sub menu is the Delete and that is when you want to delete one or more illustrations out of your canvas. Just be mindful that if you don't have any backups on your iCloud, you are deleting these once and for all.

So this basically covers the Select menu. Now let's take a look at the import menu which allows you to import your saved illustrations from procreate saved onto your iCloud Drive. It could be illustrations saved locally on your iPad, and recently deleted only works if the deleted items are stored. My your storage provider. So keep in mind that the iPad doesn't seem to really store items that are recently deleted by default. Next, you can create illustrations based on photo.

So let's go here into my camera roll and select one of my previous illustrations, procreate and graphs that illustration and sets up the canvas to the resolution of the original image. As you can see here, it is done at 2040 pixels by 2040 pixels, which is the resolution of that jpg. What I really find this tool, the powerful side of this tool, in my opinion, is to be able to make notes. You can make markups such as change the color of this dog, change the color of this raincoat, and those notes can be for yourself, or if you're working with the team of designers in or illustrators then you can go back into it. gallery and you can select that image and share it as a PNG file and send it over as an email on slack and many other applications. Finally, we have the plus icon right here, which allows you to create Canvas is the canvas creation menu here on procreate.

And the way that this manual works is that it automatically saves your last created canvases, even though we haven't named them or you just use them once. It is really saving them as recents as well as providing you with a few pre created canvases. There are 4k, for example, canvases, four by six inch photo, a4, which is a European format, printing size. You have the iPad, screen size, and even the clipboard. If you copy images, you can maybe grab them from the internet for example, in Safari, you can hit copy and that goes to the clipboard, and aspart clipboard, you can select images that you may find on safari, for example. And as hitting as you hit copy, and you go back here on to the creation, you can just hit clipboard.

And procreate is actually creating an illustration with setting the canvases and the base image has something you've copied from another application. Finally, there is an option at the very bottom, which is to create your own custom canvas. And that is a great tool, especially if you're doing multiple illustrations set up to see size. For example, if you're posting a lot of your illustrations to Instagram and you're making a lot of art is done in a square based format. You can set your illustrations, you can set your canvas to always start at 2048 by 2040 pixels, you can set the dots per inch 300. If you also think about printing your illustrations, you can set your color mode to sRGB or the p3 white color.

And finally, you can give it a name. So let's just call it ghost paper Instagram square. Now when I hit OK, not only creates that new illustration on the new canvas for me, but also when I hit plus again to create a new canvas, I can see the ghost paper Instagram square is just created here at the bottom. I can also click and hold and reposition that created canvas to be the top option off my canvas selection. So the next time We'll find it much easier. Finally, a quick note here about staying organized in procreate is that I find it really useful to work with stacks.

So whenever you find that your canvas section is looking like there is a lot of illustrations separated and they could be merged into groups, make sure it's selected illustrations, click back on stacks and keep things concise and clean. This can really help you out once you need to find the specific illustration within a project or a timeframe. Now let's take a look at getting started with brushes layers and colors in procreate