Now that we've learned quite a bit here in procreate in terms of features, I really want to dedicate this lesson to gesture and shortcuts. So for this lesson, I really want to show you as many as shortcuts that I know of, and also the gesture controls that I use, and then work to set them in the preferences. So let's just start by making a few circles here. off different colors and sizes. Just so I can set these examples. Okay.

So the very first shortcut that I use is the Undo, and that is the two finger tap on the screen. And as you can see, every time that you tap, you see that I've undo my transformation and now I'm going to start to undo this circle that pink circle that I drew. And because I've used quick shape, the very first time that I do, it goes back to the original shape that I've drawn, and then he totally disappears. However, if I want to redo the steps, I've just backtracked, I just use the three finger tap. And now as I start doing that, you can read what's saying at the top of your iPad, you would start naming the operations back again. So basically, two finger to undo three finger tap to redo.

The next one is simple. It's just a three finger swipe across the screen, and that just clears whatever you had on that whole layer. So again, I'm going to undo that with the two finger tap. The next one that I use a lot is the three finger swipe down, and that is when I want to copy and paste the contents of that layer, or I even want to cut it out of that layer and paste it on to on you. layer. So by using cut, as you can see now I've pasted all the contents into a new layer and procreate calls the new layer inserted image as he went into the clipboard and then back into a new layer.

But if I undo this operation let me just undo a couple more times here. There we go. Now if I go three finger swipe and copy and paste. As you can see, I still have my original layer original contents on the original layer one and my copy as the surveyed image because once again and went into the clipboard, and then back into the procreate Canvas, you can also do the same three finger swipe, if you want to just select using the selection tool. You just want to for example, copy this blue circle right here. You can do the three finger swipe, and then copy and paste on to a new layer.

And now you have that isolated element on a new layer. The next one is actually a quick tip about the selection tool. Sometimes you're tweaking a certain object, and you're just, you know, position repositioning around the canvas, you're scaling it, but you actually want to get a little bit closer. But watch what happens when you actually want to zoom in. So as we know, pinching is available in procreate. And that is a way for us to zoom in and out of our canvas.

However, under the selection tool, whenever we have the selection tool here activated, anytime we use the pinching mode, and it actually goes into the scale of that object. And that's not really what we want here. We want to keep the object at its scale, but we want to zoom in and take a look closer on that object. Maybe it's got some edge that you want to fix, you just want to get closer to it. And there are many, many times where this actually may come in handy. So all you have to do is to actually hold with your left hand on to the icon of the selection tool, and then here with your right hand.

Now you can zoom in and even pan and you're not actually changing the scale. off your object, it's a really useful trick here that I'm showing you guys how to zoom in into an object that's already been selected. And now you can continue to scale further scaling and reposition that object. And then of course, once again, we can use the pinch tool to zoom out, out over canvas and zoom in. And if you do the pinch really quickly, it kind of snaps back the canvas back into the 100% view mode or Fit to Screen view mode. Moving on.

Another thing that I like to do is for opacity of layers, for example, I'm just going to turn back all of our elements here. As we know as I showed you on the layers lesson, we can click on the little icon here that stands for the blend little fat layer that brings this menu off the current blend modes that we can choose and also the opacity which is a slider here at the top right. However, there is a shortcut for that, that we can choose or capacitive layers without having to click on I can write here, and that is the two finger tap one to a layer itself. As you can see, now you have the opacity adjustment off that layer just by clicking on it just by tapping with two fingers on to that layer. Next up is the forefinger tap onto the canvas. And that highlights the whole why you may find that helpful, especially if you're finishing an illustration.

And you just want to show it to friends and family or even to a client. And there are some other times to where you just want to highlight UI and take a look at the whole composition. You might be making some, you know finishing an illustration or have something really dark or really light and you actually want to take a look at the whole screen. Next up another tool that I use quite a lot here whenever I'm making my illustrations is my quick menu. And for that I am activating it with the one finger press into the screen. And right here I have a few options that have also set up to My best productivity.

So we have new layer, the very top, I have my paint in arrays on the left, I have merged down, which is something that I do use quite a bit to whenever I want to consolidate some of my layers, then I have flipped horizontally in the eyedropper flip horizontally. It's also really helpful, especially for drawing faces if you're drawing portraits. And if there are more in the realistic side, flipping horizontal, makes sure that you're actually drawing things that are proportional, they have symmetry because the brain really gets used as you're drawing our eyes and brain really gets used to whatever we're doing and perceives it as normal. But it's always good to actually flip things horizontally and see it once again, like was that really good in terms of proportion, rule of thirds, and all those things. So it's always good to at least for myself, to flip things horizontally as I'm drawing.

And lastly, I do have my eyedropper, because it's really handy to just have Quick, a quick option to get the color that I want without me having to go all the way over here and selecting colors. So the way that I've set up my quick menu, as I've said before, it's my press and hold. But in order to customize each of these options, you have to click and hold again on one of these options here. And he brings you a menu to what you actually will like it to have, as per example, this top option right here, and you can just scroll to your desired option for this quick menu. And that's how you set it up to work best for you. Another gesture that I use quite a bit here, especially when I'm making illustrations on procreate is the finger swipe across the screen.

And what that does is a way for procreate to tell me which layer my objects belong to. And I'm also able to then select that layer and be able to edit that layer. We don't need having to click on the Layers panel at all. So it's really really powerful, especially if you have an illustration with many layers. So as you can see, I've broken down this illustration into three layers. Now just so I can show you this in a more simplistic way.

And you see that the orange circle belongs to layer two purple circle belongs to layer one in pink circle belongs to layer three. So now if I just scrub around the canvas, you see that I see these numbers and the layer names are actually displayed. And if I just kind of hover on to it, it will select a layer for me. So now if I go into my Layers panel, I am on layer one, and it gets selected color. And I'm just going to select the Brush year. And this line that I just drew does not belong to layer one.

Now if I just do the same here, and I go to, let's say layer three, if I go back to my Layers panel, I am on layer three. And if I draw any lines, and if I turn them on and off, you see that they do belong to layer three. And also just a couple more things here. Let's say for example, I have made painting brush set to this noise brush, almost maximum size and maximum capacity. But my eraser brush, in this case is set to a student pan, almost halfway and maximum opacity. And right now what I'm trying to do is to paint some shadows into this pink layer.

So I'm just going to click on the pink layer, select, make a new layer, and now using my painting brush, which I know was already set to a nice brush in the darker color, I'm just going to start making some shadows. So let's just say I'm drawing shadows here and I went too high up or I want to soften that feel. And basically I'd probably want to use my eraser brush. So watch what happens when I'm using my eraser brush, which is set to the pseudo pen as I've shown you before, even if I were here to increase the size and decrease the opacity and keep trying to work some magic here. It's just not gonna look good. And that the reason for that that is because we're using to different brushes to work on the same effect, which was shading on this element.

So the tip that I want to show you guys here is how to actually copy the settings from your painting brush on to your eraser brush, because that technique we're trying to achieve here is to again use the same brush for painting on to raising. So as you see here, I have my noise brush, all that we have to do is click and hold on to the eraser brush, and he says that he copied the settings from the painting brush. So that but the only thing here to note is that unfortunately, this technique doesn't copy the size or opacity. So always make sure to you could try to eyeball it or you can even you know you can work with different capacities if specially if you're trying to erase things, but just be sure to go and switch between them. As you can see here, there's just a little bit differences in size, but that shouldn't be a big problem.

But now that I click on my eraser brush, I am Using the same brush, the nice one, and as you can see, the result is just gonna be much better. So I'm just gonna soft in those shadows. And there you go. So again, the trick here is to just press and hold. And you're going to be using the same brush, whether you're copying from your eraser brush on to the painting, or vice versa. And the next thing that I want to show you is that sometimes you may be working with a reduced color palette, but for a moment, you're working with two colors.

Maybe you're working with this darker shade here, and you're also working with pink, you could go back into your Layers panel and select those two colors if those two colors are saved on to your palette, but even better than that, another trick that I want to show you is that you can just click and hold, press and hold on to the color swatch and it will swap between your last selected few colors, in this case is actually selecting this green that I was using for something Else, but it's still switching between this dark blue that I'm using for the shadows in my previous selected color. So once again, I can just select it this dark color, and use my eyedropper, select now the pink. And if I click and hold, you see it's switching between pink and the dark shadow color. So that's really effective in order for you to not have to click on the color swatch here and go through your color palette.

Or even worse than that, if you don't have your color saved, you have to go back again into the color wheel, or even use the eyedropper, which is still something that will take you a little bit of time, probably slower than is going here and quickly swapping colors. And now I would like to show you how you can activate out these options. And those are contained into the Tools menu. And we have to go into preferences, and then gesture controls. And hearing gesture controls is a sub menu that I hide recommend you to go all the way like in all of the options here, we have to take a look at all of these options and what they allow us to do. So basically, you can set up just your controls to work best for you, depending on the kind of work that you do.

For example, because the the illustrations that I make and the content that I make, it's not really much geared towards the realistic side. For example, I don't use a lot of the smudge tool. And what this much tool does like really helps, you know, people who are drawing more realistic paintings, and they want to really blend and make like skin tones and go from a lighter skin tone to a darker skin tone. And they can use these much tool and just paint the colors kind of in a similar way as the oil painting technique, where you just go with the more like the solid colors and you start to make a blend with colors, either on your color mixer or onto the canvas itself. So that's kinda like what the smudge tool does. So As you can see here, I don't have so much tool activated in any of my gestures.

Because once again, it's not something that I use quite a bit for the Erase tool. As you guys can see here, it's really into my quick menu. So the reason why this is called Quick Menu is I can just very quickly select paint, I can select arrays here, I can select new layer, I can merge down just like that. So I do use it quite dynamically and fast as fast as possible whenever I'm creating my content, my illustrations. So the reason why I don't have a gesture control for the eraser or brush itself, it's because it's already set up in my productivity or on my workflow. It's set up on my quick menu.

So let's just go back to gesture controls, and assisted drawing. I also don't have that selected on to any gesture, because those are specific cases where I do use this drawing. For example, whenever we're doing things with symmetry, as I've shown you before, or with the grids. Finally, eyedropper, I do have that on to a few gestures. So in fact, I should just have it on one, that's something else. So that's quite important for you to understand that if you have one gesture, for example, the eyedropper and if you select all of these options, you may have a very versatile way to activate this option, but you might be limiting your ability to have those gestures or other options and other features that you may also want to use whenever you're creating your illustrations.

So now let's go back into gesture controls. And let me show you the gestures that I really really use whenever I'm creating stuff here procreate. So first one that I really use is the quick shape because I'm always making straight lines or you know, the solid such as circles triangles and squares and and use quick shapes. With the draw and hold technique, and I've also decreased the timer off the draw and hold to about a third of a second. And that is so I can, you know, just make lines, but I can still make some more abstract and lose lines. But if I really want to have them turn into a line, I just have to hold the panel to the canvas for about a third of second, I could increase that timer, but that's going to make my productivity as you probably imagine slower because you know, the more time that it takes for me to get a straight line, the more time that will take me to finish the drawing.

So let's just go back here into gesture controls and keep looking at the other options. So the next one is the Quick Menu and the Quick Menu. I am doing the touch and hold with the one finger and I've set it to a very low value about zero point 15 of a second. And again, it's for productivity and so that I work as fast as I can fullscreen mode, as I've shown at the beginning of this lesson, I'm leaving for the four finger tap, clear layer. As I also shown you before I'm leaving for the scrub, it's just basically scrubbing back and forth with three fingers, layers that layer, copy and paste, I am using the three finger swipe, because I find it very useful to just be able to do this motion and be able to use cut or copy. And for later select is the touch as I've also shown you in this lesson.

So once again, one thing that I highly recommend you to do is to go through all of these options and make sure to set up those gesture controls to work best for you. What I've gone through here and in this lesson is basically the list that works best for me and I still highly recommend you to at least follow this list at the beginning if you're just starting to use procreate, but as you get more comfortable you may find better ways here are Different ways that you can work with gesture controls that actually work best for your own art style. So now for the next lesson, let's take a look at the second assignment.