Procreate has a lot of settings, which are all great, but can get confusing. Two of the great, but confusing settings, are the combine down and the merge down settings. What do each of these do? What’s the difference between combine down and merge down exactly? The Procreate combine down setting will put your layers …

Stacking your designs in Procreate can be a great way to clean up and organize your gallery. But, what do you do if you need to change your stacks? How do you unstack? Luckily, unstacking in Procreate is easy and gives you a lot of freedom to reorganize your Procreate gallery in a way that …

Procreate is an amazing drawing app, but you can use it for so much more than art. Procreate can also be a great note taking app too! Creating your own notebook paper in Procreate is easy and can turn your favorite drawing tool into your new favorite notes tool. To create notebook paper with Procreate, …

Being able to undo your work is one of the best perks of Procreate and digital art in general. No pencil stains, eraser shavings, or worn out paper. The undo feature is one of Procreate’s most attractive features, but it can have its downsides if you’re not careful. You especially need to be careful about …

You sit down with your iPad to do some drawing with Procreate when you realize the eraser is acting up. Procreate is a powerful design software and the eraser is more complicated than the pink square of rubber we’re used to. Don’t worry though; there are easy fixes for all of your Procreate eraser problems. …

Procreate and Illustrator have made great names for themselves in the digital art world. For good reason. Learning and paying for both programs can seem like a lot though. Can you get everything you need from just one of them? In a battle of Procreate vs. Illustrator, who would win? Procreate and Illustrator are very …

Drawing perfectly straight lines is something that Procreate can do easily. It’s almost like magic. No more rulers or shaky hands. Procreate’s auto straighten feature makes straight lines easy to create. To draw a straight line in Procreate, simply draw a line and hold your stylus on your screen until you see the line straighten. …

Backing up our digital files is important, and Procreate is no different. We don’t want all of our hard work to disappear if something were to happen to our iPads. How is work saved in Procreate? Where do the files go? How can we save our files in case we need to restore them later? …

You’re having a great time drawing in Procreate when, suddenly, your lines start looking pixelated. This can be a frustrating problem that feels helpless. How do you get smooth edges and avoid the pixelation? Luckily, there are some things you can do to avoid this pixelation problem. Pixelation problems with Procreate are usually due to …

In order to get the most out of everything that Procreate can do, you need to understand a key feature: layer opacity. Being able to change your layer opacity will open up a lot of possibilities for your art. To change the layer opacity in Procreate, open your Layers panel and use two fingers to …