Nick Saporito

In previous tutorials we’ve gone over how to crop and resize images in Procreate for the iPad. If you wanted to crop an image to a shape, however, the process is a little more involved. In this tutorial we’ll be going over how to fit an image to a shape in Procreate by using selections…

When creating artwork it is sometimes required that we preserve areas of transparency in the finished design. Turning off the visibility of the background layer is a good start as it creates a transparent background within the Procreate app, but what if we wanted to save/export our artwork in a usable file and have the…

One of the many benefits of working with Procreate for the iPad is that it makes it easy to create your own color palettes. The problem, however, is that any color palette you create will be confined to that device. In this tutorial we’ll be going over how to import and export color palettes in…

In this tutorial we’ll be going over how to use Procreate to apply a gradual transition to transparency. This is otherwise known as a transparent gradient, or an opacity mask. There’s no specific feature built into Procreate that allows you to create transparent gradients though, so we’ll have to do so manually. In this tutorial…

Within Procreate there is a Gaussian Blur feature that allows you to apply blurs to your images. The problem, however, is that the effect is applied globally to the entire layer. What if you just want to blur a particular area of your image, and not the entire image, though? In this tutorial we’ll be…