Colors

Select, adjust, and drag and drop color into your movie. Let color harmony suggest complimentary colors to suit the mood of your piece.

Colors Interface

Choose, modify, and save all the colors you need for your movie using Colors.

Shows your currently selected color.

In the top right corner of the Color Panel, a pair of side-by-side rectangles display your primary color on the left and your secondary color on the right.

Your secondary color is usually the second last color you’ve used and can be used in a brush’s Color Dynamics. Manually set the secondary color to achieve a specific look to your brush’s Color Dynamics (if it has them).

1. Tap the secondary color.

2. Select a color from Disc, Classic, Harmony, Value, or Palettes.

The color wheel contains a reticle: a clear circle you can drag around to select a color.

As you drag the smaller, secondary reticle, it displays two colors in a split circle. On the right side, you'll see the color the reticle hovers over. On the left, you'll see the most recent color in your history. This allows you to compare a new color choice with the shade most recently used.

The history section displays the last ten colors you’ve used.

When you first open a new movie, the history section is empty. Colors are added as you select them. Tap Clear to wipe your color History.

The current default palette displays at the bottom of the Color Panel.

You’ll find the default palette at the bottom of the Color Panel on the Disc, Classic, Harmony, and Value tabs. It is also available in the Palettes tab.

Procreate Dreams has many ways for you to explore and select new colors.

When you first open the Color Panel, you will see the Color Disc by default. Below are more options to help you find the perfect color for your project. Switch to any of the modes below using the tabs at the bottom of the Color Panel.

Color Disc

Procreate Dreams makes use of Procreate's proprietary Color Disc as its primary way to select color.

The Color Disc consists of an outer Hue ring around an inner Saturation disc. Move the reticles to select your desired color, and tap anywhere outside the Color Panel to close it.

Move the reticle on the outer ring to select your hue, and move the reticle on the inner circle to change your saturation and brightness.

Left to right is less to more saturated respectively, and down to up is less to more bright respectively.

Classic Picker

The classic color picker provides a more traditional experience. It displays a square where you can modify your saturation (left = less, right = more) and brightness (up = more, down = less).

You can modify the hue by using the slider below the square, and underneath that you have sliders for saturation and brightness.

Color Harmony

The Harmony color picker helps you pick colors that are harmonious with your active color. From the Color Panel, tap the Harmony tab. Procreate Dreams comes with 5 color harmony algorithms — Complementary, Split Complementary, Analogous, Triadic, and Tetradic.

Choose a color harmony algorithm from the top left corner of the Color Panel. The default is Complementary.

Drag the primary color reticle around the color wheel to select your active color. As you move this, the secondary reticles will change position and value.

Drag the primary color reticle around the color wheel to select your active color. As you move this, the secondary reticles will change position and value.

Drag the primary color reticle around the color wheel to select your active color. As you move this, the secondary reticles will change position and value.

Value Picker

The value picker allows you to select and modify your color with a series of sliders. The upper three sliders control your hue, and brightness respectively. The next three allow you to adjust your color based on the red, green, and blue values. If these are all maxed, your color will be white, if they are zero, the color will be black.

You can also input a hexadecimal value directly. Hex values are a way of storing red, green, and blue values with six numbers and letters (A-F and 0-9). 00 = zero, FF = 255. The first two characters represent red, the second two are green, and the final two are blue.

Palettes

The Palettes tab allows you to create and organise your palettes. These are collections of color swatches that you can use in the other Color tabs. The active palette will have a tick next to the name. You can set another palette to be active by tapping the ellipsis on the far right, and selecting 'Set as active'. In here you can also duplicate and delete the palette.

Tap hold a palette to pick it up and rearrange it, tap the + button at the top right to create a new palette, and tap the title of a palette to rename it.

Color Companion

Don’t want your Color Panel in the top right-hand corner? Position it wherever you like using Color Companion.

Drag the small grey handle at the top of the Color Panel to detach it from the top menu bar, turning it into the Color Companion. You can drag this anywhere on the screen using the grey handle, and return it to the top right by tapping the small grey 'x' in the top right.

ColorDrop

ColorDrop is Procreate Dreams’ fill tool. It’s a fast and efficient way to quickly fill areas of your work with consistent color.

1. Drag your active color onto any area of your artwork.

2. Release it to flood-fill that area with your selected color.

The color will spread outwards until it hits a boundary. For example, an outline, or an area of different color.

ColorDrop Threshold

Use ColorDrop threshold to control how much your ColorDrop fill bleeds into and over the edges of your artwork.

At lower thresholds, the color will confine itself to smaller areas. At higher thresholds, the color will bleed into outlines and break through them to fill neighboring areas.

To adjust the ColorDrop threshold:

1. Drag your active color over the area you want to fill, but don’t release it. After a moment, ColorDrop threshold will activate. A thin bar above the artwork represents the threshold amount.

2. Drag your finger or Apple Pencil to the left and right to adjust the threshold.

3. Lift your finger or Apple Pencil to commit the fill.

Continue Filling

When you have used ColorDrop, a 'Continue Filling' option will appear at the top of the interface. Tap this to enter Continue Filling mode. Now, tapping in another area will flood it with your active color.

Tap the tick next to 'ColorDrop' to exit Continue Filling mode.

Eyedropper

Sample a new color from anywhere on your Stage.

1. Tap and hold anywhere on your Stage to invoke the eyedropper.

2. Once the eyedropper appears, drag it to any location on the Stage, and release to select your color.

3. Your new color displays on the top half of the loupe and the current color on the bottom half.

4. Lift your finger to select your new color and set it as your active color.