This video was amazing I've been doing digital art for a while and I could never understand why it looked so pixelated, but other people that used the same program as me artwork looks amazing
Thank you SO much for the way you explained everything from scratch. I needed to know what size canvas I should use, and instead of giving us a standard size, you taught us how to know which size to use for each different project. Definitely subscribed. Thanks again :)
I've seen by far many videos about how to choose our camvas and have high resolution artworks,yours was literally the best by far,crystal clear to understand!! Thank you so much!! Btw what camvas size would you recommend for detailed portraits in procreate? I will post them on insta and I am worrying about the resolution..
Came here because I was struggling with pixelation and was wanting to learn the exact inner workings of dimensions affecting pixelation and I have to say THANK YOU. The way you explained and helped me visualize this more clearly was immensely helpful!! A lifesaver🙏🏽✨✨
Lovely lady and thank god for videos with tremendous value. We appreciate less rambling and starting the video topic immediately. Loved this video and I learned so much. Thank you so much!!! I subscribed!
OH MY GOSH, THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO!!!! I'M SO GLAD I CHECKED IT OUT BECAUSE YOU EXPLAINED IT REALLY WELL!! I've checked out a few other videos which either glossed over sizing altogether, or had me Completely confused! Your video helped me to feel more confident about sizing my products! Thank you again!! NEW SUBSCRIBER! ☺️
Does anyone know how good the standard settings for 8.5x11 perform in procreate? The settings seem to be different than what she calculated in the formula
hi, I have to make a high resolution illustration that will have to be printed 50x70 cm. How do you recommend setting up the canvas in procreate? do you recommend using photoshop?
I have a question I can’t find an answer for. I want to print 5x7 ad 8x10 prints for framing. Using 300 DPI. Would I get better prints if I draw on a larger canvas, then shrink them down before printing?
I'm a retired graphic design, public high school teacher, and your explanations and tutorials are amazing. Are the tutorials self produced? What apps do you use? I used to just use Quicktime. The biggest challenge for me was designing a cross platform program. With covid, and distance learning, all of a sudden I had to deal with macs, pcs, chromebooks and even phones! What is the design app you would use? (Got to be free or cheap). How much time do you spend on production? Your edits are so clean and precise, speech and directions are efficient and clear, and do you use some kind of filter on yourself...your youth shines through, your teeth are so white, and you could be a "hand" model! You are doing a great job. Love your charisma, and unassuming charming style.
My canvas is always abt 200DPI which sucks when I'm doing realistic, but otherwise I'll have less than 54 layers available and that's barely enough 4 me because I want everything on a separate layer. Especially if I'll ever do commissions it'll b so hard 2 not make everything on the same canvas because then I'll have less opportunity to change things. Like for example sometimes when I'm almost done w the drawing I start changing the whole sketch a little bit and that's so annoying.
I've been making mementos and need a 128 x 128 canvas and 300 hundred resolution I'm good at art but it was so pixelated creating it was hard I haven't watched yet But I hope you have something in that range that helps me
I’m trying to make a profile pic with a canvas that is 100x100 and I want to get rid of the pixel strokes that I made with a brush I’m using on procreate. How do I make a brush stroke smooth looking with that canvas size?
Can you please make a video about how to decide and use the layers? I am getting confusing about it.. on your tutorials, we are just following every layers you said, including the alpha lock or clipping mask. But when I try to draw an image from internet, i lost the clues. Example a decoration on the hairs, does it matters if we draw and colour the decoration first, or better the hairs first? and the shadows and highlights are always at the end and separately on every 'objects' ? Thanks for your attention and time. An short answer would be very appreciated too. :)
I think this really is something that comes with experience and practice... Everyone does it differently and there's no "correct" method: as long as it works for you, then rock on!
I know thos was 10 months ago, but i am COMPLETELY lost in whats wrong, when I send things from procreate, to myself thru email, or on insagram(and when i post) they come out dull and less saturated. Ive found nothing to help, and editing outside doesnt do much either. Can anyone relate and know what to do? 😭
hey sorry if this sounds dumb.. i am creating printables on A4 size (letterhead in US i think?) but im creating illustrations seperatley, which canvas size do i use to do these on ? thanks
@@GenevievesDesignStudio thanks for your reply. Tbh I'm not exactly sure what sizes the illustrations are that I need until I play around with the layout of them.. can it just be a rough idea of size? X
Wow, I’m in love with you! Just kidding. I’m an old school tech guy. I have knowledge of sizes and dimensions through film cameras, I’ve been using procreate for some time now have have greatly improved my skill level, but the method I’ve come to determine the size of my canvas has been problematic. At times I’ll decide on one size then the image I’m beginning to visualize may change from landscape to portrait and vice versa. Then there are times I’ll realize that a square sized canvas works better with the direction the project is heading. Then I realized the amount of layer I have available. I once created one rendering with just 4 layers, after have enlarged the canvas I originally had initially with. I understand the concept of DPI way back when in want the best picture resolution for flat screen TVs started to come out. As well as having the blackest black. I didn’t know such a thing existed until I saw a men sports coat by Bill Blass. Then I also discovered that it also exists digitally called Vanta, which absorbs light. So I have an older iPad Pro, which I’ve been using still, even though I also have a 2021 iPad Pro model as well. I’m just used to my work flow for now. Going back to the sizes I’ve gravitated to for my canvas have shrunk from 8.5 by 11 inches down to 5 by 7 inches, mainly for memory consumption. Even though I have off loaded my work onto portable SSD drives I find I can get what appears to be a good quality finished digital art pieces in that canvas size. But I’m never quite sure how they would look, if I were to enlarged or printed one of them. That’s where this video comes in so late for me, because of all of my previous projects perhaps created with the incorrect sizes. I will put into practice that rule of 300 dpi. For some odd feeling I get a sense there should be more information related to this topic, but I don’t know why, or what it could be. It could be in another video.
I very much appreciate the straight forwardness of this video. It’s very hard watching videos with off topic info added into the mix. I’m going to subscribe and watch with my little girl. We both have been learning digital art together. I also like showing her classy, bright and happy female role models for her to look up to. This channel fits with all of the positive attributes. Awesome 👏
Thank you for making this video, I was struggling so much because my images look very pixelated and I didn’t know why. I have a few that I’d like to print out and put in a frame and I was really concerned about them being pixelated. I needed this information so badly thank you!
I know I’m late! But if you do know, I use Twitter to post art and whenever I post I mainly use canvas size 2000x2000 between 3000x3000 or something else with a dpi of 300-350. It’ll look smooth on my iPad when I see it on Twitter but when I go on computer and look at it, it’s more blurry and not that great looking as it is on iPad. Any explanations or ways I can make it smoother both on iPad and computer and also any suggestions for canvas size? I don’t know too well and I stopped using Instagram after how blurry it got and how instas cropping wasn’t too great.
I just clicked because I saw a cute face.. but as soon as I heard "I won't go into the technical stuff", I knew I was in for a laugh with lots of jumbling up of technical concepts. Wasn't disappionted 🤣🤣 You're talking about resolution and dpi like they're the same thing through the second half of the video. That's just not right, and very confusing for anyone watching. Resolution is the total amount of pixels. DPI is related how big you print each pixel on paper. PPI is related to how big the pixels are on a monitor's screen. So it's DPI that does not matter for viewing pictures on screen. What matters on how good an image looks on screen is the ppi of the monitor itself, and having a picture that has the same resolution or more than the monitor. If you look at a 1920x1080 = 2.07 Mpx picture full screen on a 28" 4k monitor at arm's length, it will look like crap, because the monitor has a PPI of 157.35 (super small pixels, so it looks super sharp) and a total resolution of 3840x2160 = 8.02 Mpx, so you could see 4 times more detail in an image if you're close enough. Also, there's LPI, which is related to how many lines a drawing tablet can capture for each stroke when you draw with a digital pen. So the sharpness of the lines captured will depend on a combination of many things: the type of brush, the screen's physical size, the canvas resolution and the zoom level that you are drawing at, but won't depend on the tablet's screen resolution (if it has a screen). I hope artists adapt 4k resolution as the minimum standard for pictures and also for videos. If you guys are using a 1080p screen that's larger than 15", you are hurting your eyes. Btw I'm not an artist, just an engineer, gamer and computer nerd, among other unrelated things
Wow. That DPI really helped. I had a ton of trouble trying to get my first children's book pictures to fit perfectly on the page. With KDP. But with this x 300 thing. I can skip all the struggle and get the perfect canvas right from the beginning.
I’ve been wanting to invest more time into digital art after having procreate for a while and I appreciate this video for all the helpful tips and information, thank you!!!
At 8:00 you said you wouldn’t get into it but it’s exactly what I need to understand ☹️ do you have a video explaining more of this? I have to do a huge scale print of a digital art work and it’s showing too blurry 😭😭😭
I’m struggling, I use Affinity designer and illustrator and Procreate and even though I make a canvas of 33.1x46.8 inches (A0) with 300 dpi, when I upload it it says it can only print at full quality up to 18x24 inches? Someone please help!
Really thank you so Much for EXIST. All the times i search the Canvas and finally i can understand why .. have a nice day big hugs from Italy 😻👗👠🌼❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Thank you ! Do you know the size for procreate canvas when making digital art for a MacBook Pro wallpaper? I’m struggling to find the size
Thank you!! I am using Procreate and I hate bad details… 😂 does higher DPI means better quality? What happenes if I have DPI 450 or more.. will I see any difference? Will it be better? Or it will be the same like with 300 DPI? ❤
Genevieve, I so love your enthusiasm; it brings such joy to watching your tutorials. I do have a couple inquires. I've been creating in Procreate and sharing only digitally. I would now like to offer digital printables. I'm finding if I create in Procreate on a 8.5x11 canvas at 300dpi, when I export it, it comes into my files as 96dpi. Also, can you export an entire document as a png with white background? Seems as though it doesn't matter if my background layer is turned off or not. I always ends up with a transparent one. And finally, I would love for you to do a tutorial that really explains the individual blend modes. Thanks for any suggestions. They would be greatly appreciated.
One of the best explanations of how resolution does and does not work. If I had a baffled client, I would direct them towards this video. Btw the "strength" of the iPad is directly related to the RAM of the iPad. Apple generally does not give that spec information that you would get from a windows or android device, but recently has started to provide it because app developers need to know, especially for Procreate. Also, it should be mentioned that the Pro versions of iPad are best suited for use with Procreate because even if say an Air has 6GB of RAM, app devs can only utilize about 4GB (on par with the Mini) because apple locks off the rest of the RAM so the OS can operate. So a Pro with 8GB of RAM will be able to utilize about 6GB of RAM, providing a more smooth and less limited performance. THAT DOES NOT MEAN anything less than a Pro is not suitable for Procreate, it is just not optimized for it. Especially without the M1 processor.
Omg that’s so mind bugging I’m a graphic design major that whole thing is my job but I still can’t figure out how do I print my 16:9 resolution digital art in a big canvas on procreate… The app doesn’t support the size I want to print but there is people who got huge prints of their procreate art ughhh is it dpi and I dumb? The iPad doesn’t do anything I got 2tb iPad Pro which is the the best one but still I can’t got over 100cm canvas… also how the heck is 1920x1080 is like 25cm?? I feel so dumb ughh >~
Hi this was a really helpful video thank you… I want to print some art on canvas of 32 x 47 inches so I just do 32 x 300 and vice versa to get the size I need in px? If I change the DPI to a higher number than 300 would that skew the picture? Or should it always be 300. I also heard to change to CMYK to RGB would you recommend that too?
I really want to know that if the picture i draw is 4 inch and quality is already good in this size, and if i make it bigger then 4 inch like 7 or 10 or more the quality will getting bad because it made for only 4 inch, and i want to know is there the way to make picture quality look good? If i want to make the same picture in different size?
Hello I hope you are doing great, can you please help me out here I am designing a linked background image in procreate but the canvas size is too small and is resulting in brushes being pixelated can you please help me with this 😔😔😭
Easy way around limit to layers save the work you are doing export start again insert it as layer then start layering again with the limit started fresh if you know what I mean
Hello! I loved this video and very much look forward to trying out some of your tutorials. I am beginning my art print store where my prints will be available for download. I work in procreate so I am wondering if you have tips on ensuring the best quality for print if there are certain texture brushes that are better than others. I was trying to figure out vectors but I find that you just can't get the same textures that way. Do you think it is necessary to make all prints vectors in order to be printed?
Can I ask, in some of your tutorials where you show us your canvas measurements, your DPI is set to around 260, do you lower it for a reason? Do tou find that’s a good number to lower it to in order to get more layers ? Thanks for the vid! Really helped! 😊
Hi Amy! For demos, I usually just create a canvas that is the size of my iPad screen, which is where the seemingly random 264 DPI comes from. The key thing to remember with DPI is that it doesn't really mean anything just by itself... In theory, every image is 300 DPI while also being 150 DPI, 72 DPI, and everything in between! I could easily go and 'resample' the canvas to 300 DPI. The "pixel" numbers would be the same but the physical printing size would change. In order to get more layers, the dimensions in pixels is what you need to play with 😊
I really liked this video. Lots of explanation. The part where she mentions the amount of layers able to be used depends on what I Pad you have and resolution... I was wondering if anyone knows how significant the upgrade in I Pad model would make as far as how many layers it could handle in procreate?
Brad Colbow has a few videos on that in his channel. I hope I wrote the name right, he’s changed it a few times. Brad Cowboy is another name he used. I know it has to do with RAM and the 8gb - 16gb the iPad comes with. Also has to do with the storage capacity. But he explains it well, I’m not so technological xD.
Hi Matthew! I talk a more about that in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JYOIeObjfuo.html That being said, @Chuleta is right, Brad Colbow has really great iPad reviews on his channel 🤍
Hi, this is a great video. I have a question. Do I use the same INCHXDPI=PIXEL calculation if I want to make the margin and bleed? I watched the other video of yours on how to create margins and bleeds.
Can’t thank you enough for the info that you continue to share with us. I just have a quick question tho, since I already created a cmyk art in procreate, would i still need to use a photoshop to correct the color of my cmyk art? Thanks in advance
If I want to print two separate sizes of the same artwork, (let's say 9"*12* and 6”*8”) 1. Then while drawing it in procreate, I should choose a canvas size of the bigger print dimension I.e. 9”*12” right? Then I can easily reduce the size for the smaller print dimension i.e 6”*8” without compromising quality. 2. In order change pint size of same picture, do I have to always keep same ratio?
