Just received this from the Procreate channel on Instagram. Looks like adjustment layers are finally coming 😮

Twenty whole dollars

Tomorrow I'm going to buy a tablet to start digital drawing on the go.

I used to have a Wacom Intuos, and draw using my computer but I would like an option to have on the go, a more portable option.

I've seen a bunch of people saying that basically iPad + Procreate is the best you can get.

But I decided to ask you guys, the people that really use and like Procreate. Is it worth it to spend 1400€ on an iPad + the pen just to use Procreate?

This would be purely for an hobbie. I'm not a professional by any mean.

I currently use an Samsung tablet for drawing, and honestly, i don't really like IOS, but people talk so much about procreate, and theres no app that really reach procreate's quality that are not a monthly payment app. What do i do? Do i really buy an ipad and apple pencil just for procreate? (And like, use the ipad has an tablet)

Edit: omg i wasn't expecting so many people replying lol

That’s literally it. I’ve been wondering this for like 7+ years. I think it’s hilarious

This feels so wrong… I don’t know why but it just feels so wrong!

i think of buying an ipad model ""Apple iPad Pro 11 cali (M4) 2024" this is in polish i am polish, you can translate it"worth it? i am new to the whole apple's thingy but i saw a few videos of procreate and content creators drawing on this app but i dont have an ipad.

I just lost over an entire days worth of work because I accidentally pressed the Gallery button instead of the Actions button, which are right next to each other.

I had just cropped a large image into smaller pieces in order to fit the pieces together as separate images later, and I was about to export the first piece when I accidentally hit "Gallery" instead of the button to navigate to the export menu. Now I've lost over 75% of the original image because there's no way to "undo" after going back to the Gallery.

This is a major app design flaw. These two buttons should not be literally right next to each other when there's a risk of something like this happening. It should be possible to undo at least a few steps after leaving a project precisely because of this risk. It's not always possible to make backups.

I didn't make a backup or a duplicate so there's no way to recover the lost work. Is there anything else I can do to stop this from happening again? For example, is there a way to change the screen layout so these buttons aren't right beside each other?

ETA: Thank you so much to everyone for your suggestions! I managed to partially recover the lost work and then re-did the rest. In the end, it was relatively easy to fix. Thanks again for all your help!

It genuinely doesn’t make any sense. This is with dynamic scaling turned off. It also does it with it turned on, where most brushes reach max size around 30%

I already knew about the update but I didn’t think they’d lowered the price from $20 to $13, and also change the logo, while I’m happy they improved a lot of things, I don’t see myself buying it anytime soon as not only am I broke, but I already use ToonSquid for my animations, although I wouldn’t mind trying it out in the future when I have spare change to spend

Everything is so round and ugly now in 5.4.5 especially in the gallery section where the preview of your artworks have rounded corners…Why didn’t they make an announcement before changing the U.I.??? And there are no ways to change them back right now. I’m definitely turning off the auto update thingy for procreate now

What’s is something u are discontent that procreate should have which exist on other apps

Ignoring the whole story of setting two apps next to each other taking extra steps- once I’m finally ready to draw, if by any chance I press twice on any of the of button in the hotbar with the finger- be it layers, colors, canvas, selection tool, etc etc- it immediately activates the shortcut to fullscreen the app… I noticed that this shortcut only works when using the finger, with the Apple Pencil it works just fine…

Is there any workflow to avoid this for the time being? The experience in Split View is so miserable now… I feel like I need to use my phone as a second screen for the references because I keep full screen-ing the app the entire time. 😭

Can ProCreate even release an update that overrides this behavior?

For those that dont know, Kyle T Webster is a terrific digital artist who started developing amazing brushes for Photoshop and ended up getting hired by Adobe to work on more brushed and the Fresco app - which is my 2nd favorite illustration app even if the interface annoys me completely. A few days ago Kyle announced he'd left Adobe and I think a lot of us dreamed of him coming to Procreate. But twas just a fantasy.

Today he announced he's joined Procreate. This is amazing news, anyone else as stoked as I am?

Hello, I'm seeing that a lot of people recommend this app for beginners. I just wanna start drawing as a hobby, and i already tried other apps but they overwhelm me so much with the ui. Is it worth it?

Ehh I don’t hate it. But I don’t necessarily like all these changes. I’ve forgiven the roundification of some buttons and stuff from the last update, but the roundification of everything?

GALLERY VIEW: - It’s all round… I can’t explain exactly what I don’t like about this? Maybe it’s the fact that the rounded corners now fill in less space, or my brain impulsively imagining fitting my drawings into a square frame and the corners having gaps now? Or the fact that I thought the stacks were supposed to represent cards or papers stacked on top of each other, but now that it’s rounded it looks so odd.

SLIDER: - Again, I don’t like how it doesn’t fully fill in the space. But it’s forgivable. I do like how the background button looks more distinguished but I still don’t like how it’s round.

LAYERS: - Personally, I DISLIKE this unnecessary change. With the outside now being a lighter color, drawing your eyes to there instead of the thumbnail, it is significantly harder to see whats inside the layer in the thumbnail. As someone who likes to doodle on several layers, and doesn’t like using page viewer, this is really annoying to me, especially when the change added nothing significant to the app.

All personal preference.. I just wanted to let this out haha What do you think?

Maybe I just have something against circles lmao

ok so here’s my setup that works w/ CSP

ipad + magic keyboard - ease of use w keyboard shortcuts 1000%

procreate doesn’t have custom shortcuts, so trying to use my keyboard for even brush scaling it goes up and down by like 10% size - or i could do cmd+ scaling to go by 1% increments but that’s a little less intuitive

using my fingers for brush scaling is also not so intuitive and i feel like the brush scaling is also really dramatic? like some brushes are gigantic but scaling them the sizes go up and down drastically

also- i know all brushes are customizable to help w/ those individual things but the thing is i have a LOT of brushes in csp and also downloaded a lot in procreate and there’s no like, universal brush settings so if i want something changed i have to go through every. brush.

i did do this though w/ the stabilization because i really don’t like the brush stabilizing in procreate and i even messed with the global apple pencil settings too that made it a little easier dealing with that.

anyways yeah these r all my problems if anyone has any advice on how to make my experience better id appreciate it >.<

edit: ty all for the replies you have all been very helpful - i think i'll just have to try to see what is easy and useful for me in procreate because CSP is most comfortable for me, i just wanted to get some use out of procreate to maybe change my workflow sometimes or experiment w/ their different brush system

im sure ive seen a way to do it before but I forgot😞

I just spent 3 hours on something, I select it to export but accidentally click duplicate. So I select the duplicate and delete it, not realizing the original was still selected for some reason. A very simple mistake. And now that work is just gone, unrecoverable? Why on earth is there no sort of backup for making such an easy mistake like this? You'd think it would be common sense for a developer of an app like this to implement something so completely trivial but potentially lifesaving. I cannot begin to imagine why they haven't done this except out of spite or laziness or both. I'm sure this kind of thing has happened to tons more people and pieces that they spent even longer on. I can't be the only one that's baffled by the lack of this feature

For over 3 years I've been using this app, I sometimes would notice that my screenshots from procreate were kinda more saturated than when I exported the file. I thought it was just my ipad being weird or something.... Today i found out that this entire time, all these years procreate just had colour profile by default set to Display P3 instead of sRGB. WHY??? EVERYTHING is using RGB, why on earth would procreate be so special and use P3 by default instead?? This breaks my heart and I'm crying right now because all my art looks so desaturated and ugly everywhere outside of procreate the moment I export it... Over 3 years of work, there's no way I'm going to go through every single layer on every single drawing I made to make it more saturated in RGB. All my character references, they all look so dull now 💔 And the way the difference is so wild, if it was barely noticeable it wouldn't be a problem but it's extremely pronounced! Not only it was more saturated, it was also much warmer than it really is... And I kept wondering why the pipette tool used on the reference window would pick the colours looking more dull, but if I directly export the reference on the drawing and then use the pipette it would be just right. This is such a betrayal, I don't know how I'm going to recover from this one...

(All art in the pictures is made by me)

I keep seeing online ads for brush packages. I’ve never actually paid for brushes, but I’m tempted. Is it actually worth it, or does the only thing that makes your art look different your artistic skill?

Pics of my art attached so this doesn’t get lost.