Advanced Comic Coloring in Procreate 

I found the color threshold by accident. My daughter had somehow fiddled with the setting and things were not filling properly anymore so I had to look into fixing it.

Yup. That. Or alpha lock, or reference layer etc

When you say stamp down, what do you mean? What are the steps?

Thanks! I really appreciate hearing that.

Humphrxy @ me if you figure it out

Select (if you mean the automatic version) only takes a certain amount of the lines. The amount varies depending on the threshold you use and on how much the lines stick together. That can work, if you manage to select 100% of the lines' area. With alphalock you can be sure to have 100% "selected". Plus it's much faster.

Oh - the selection method has one advantage - as I can see: When you use it for example on the "foreground colors" layer, you can select - for example - only the skin color. Once you have the selection, your added gradient wouldn't have to be trimmed into shape with the eraser.

Darren Albertson uh-huh what

Darren Albertson it's a Procreate thing

A Procreate thing? I'm pretty sure I'm using the same Procreate app so I'm not sure what you're talking about 🤔 He's already made color breakdowns on his character on a separate layer. All you have to do is set the gradient where you want it like he did, choose your character color breakdown layer, go to Selection mode, select automatic, touch/threshold the shape you want to select, invert it, go back to the gradient layer and then choose Cut and it will clear all the excess color outside the shape you want filled with the gradient without having to spend all that time erasing it away. I know that sounds complicated but it's really quick when you're doing it and a lot faster than having to erase the excess away every time. Or you can just use the reference layer to put all of your different colors on separate layers (a process called "flatting"- the same thing he did except putting each color on its own layer) then selecting the layer content, inverting it in Selection mode as explained above, going to the layer with the gradient you've set, and then choosing Cut to clear it away. Again, no tedious and time consuming erasing away the excess.

Darren Albertson do it like this so u can be more accurate

It's no more accurate and far more time-consuming than what I described above-I've done it both ways. There are times when you have to do it the more time consuming way, but it's always best to find shortcuts when you can.

Melinda Todd go to “how to get gradients in Procreate” on bite sized Brad and then once you click the link there is like a dozen brushes to download.

In case you make a mistake and want to erase or change your mind, if you colour on the inking layer, when you erase you'll also be erasing your inking. You could duplicate your inking layer and colour if you wish.

Mukui Mutunga thx

They updated the software to use Clipping Mask and you can use Alpha Lock also to make sure you only want to color in certain areas.

lhawkins not relevant to his question

You just click the third circle icon on the top left of the screen, of the tape,

I thought about putting that in there, for this tutorial I thought it added extra steps i would explain in this video even though it's faster than erasing manually.

That makes sense!! :) The lasso tool also works in reverse, (it can lasso an outline in the middle of the page and will only allow shading/ highlighting outside that outline) as well as the other option of within the outline chosen :) It would have saved me HOURS of unnecessary erasing had I known about the lasso tool :) Also: :) I heard of the idea of copying the blank ink outline layer and putting this also down on top of the final layers too ;) (as this saves unnecessary erasing from highlighting shadows / brightness also :)

I think you should definitely show how you use the lasso tool in a new video :) Awesome work Brad as always!!!!!!

Short answer... I dropped the ball, probably going to be doing some follow up down the road.

Cartoon.

AC AC I would love him to review the book