This way you can manually add thicker parts when you press harder. This brush is also stabilized, meaning it smoothens every wiggly line your hand may make. This way you have a uniform line throughout your line drawing. The Fine Tip brush does not react to pen pressure. You can find all of these brushes in the brush library (brush icon) under the Inking tab. The best native brushes in Procreate to use for tracing are: The best brushes to trace in Procreate are brushes that are uniform, smooth and have no grain. Now that you finished your linework you can transfer it to any paper you’d like! Best brushes to use for tracing in Procreate Lastly, you can save your image in your camera roll or mail it to yourself or someone else. JPEG does not support transparency, so it must be a PNG. If you only want your lines and no background you should first, turn off the background layer and then export as a PNG. If you want to export your line drawing without a background color you need to uncheck its visibility box as well. Simply tap the checkbox on the image layer to uncheck it. To export the line drawing with a background you first need to you need to hide the image layer. More on tracing brushes later.Īfter you’re done tracing you can export your drawing, either with or without a background. You find it under the Inking tab in the brush menu. Make sure to select the layer you created to trace on before you actually trace! Believe me, even if you do this 100 times, 80% of the time you start to trace on the wrong layer. Tap the N on your image layer and drag the opacity down enough for you to still see it. To see your linework more clearly you need to decrease the opacity of your image layer. If you’d like to know more about layers in Procreate, you can check this article here.

To do this, tap the plus icon in the layers menu. Next, we create a layer on top of our image layer. This is where you can scale your image, and place it anywhere on your canvas. Use ”Insert a file” when your image is saved in your Files app.Īfter picking your image Procreate automatically goes into transform mode. You go to ”Insert a photo” when your image is saved in your photo album. I assume you already did that, but just in case you’re wondering what Procreate’s best canvas settings are, you can read about it here.

Import your image to Procreateįirst, you need to create a new canvas. Keep reading to find out which simple steps to take, and which brushes to use! 1. Just your image, iPad, Apple pencil and about 10 seconds to set things up. To accurately trace an image in Procreate you don’t need much.

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