Interface

Procreate Pocket offers multiple color interfaces tailored to suit the way you work. This gives you a variety of ways to choose, save, and adjust colors.

Colors Interface

The Colors interface is where you choose, modify, and save colors and palettes.

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

Learn more about using a secondary color in Color Dynamics .

Procreate Pocket offers many ways to explore and select new colors.

When you first open the Color Panel, you see the Color Disc by default. Explore the below options more in the Handbook sections to follow.

Color Disc offers an outer Hue ring around an inner zoomable Saturation disc. This allows for fine touch control over your color selection.

Classic presents a traditional take on color selection. This offers Hue / Saturation / Brightness sliders combined with a standard square color picker.

Harmony gives you pleasing color suggestions based on your currently selected shade.

Value offers precision sliders along with numerical and hexadecimal values. These are ideal for precise color matching.

Palettes gives you access to sets of color swatches. Procreate Pocket includes several standard palettes. You can also import palettes, and create your own. The current Default palette displays at the bottom of each of the above Color Panel modes.

You can switch to any of the above modes using the tabs at the bottom of the Color Panel.

Drag this handle upwards to reveal more of your Colors interface - your Color History and your current (active) Palette.

These options are detailed in the section below.

Selecting a Color

In the various modes of the Colors interface, you can drag your finger around the disc/classic picker, etc. to select your color. As you drag, the reticle will expand and show you the color you're currently selecting on the right, and your previous color - the last color you painted with, on the left.

Expanded Colors Interface

Drag the handle at the top of your Colors interface upwards to expand it and show more options.

Access the colors you most recently used for painting in this section of Colors. Use the 'Clear' button above to clear your Color History.

Select, and, and modify colors from your current palette. If you would like to modify your active palette, head to the Palettes tab.

Active Color

In the top right of your expanded tools, the active color displays your currently selected color. This is the color that will be laid down as you paint.

Press and hold it to switch between your current and previous color. You can also drag it onto the canvas to invoke ColorDrop. This is a speedy way to flood-fill areas of your artwork.

Shows currently selected color. Tap on this to enter the Colors interface.

Switch to Previous Color

Press and hold the Active Color to switch between your current and previous color.

ColorDrop

Drag the Active Color into any area of your artwork. 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 activate ColorDrop Threshold, drag the Active Color over the area you want to fill, but don’t release it. After a moment, ColorDrop Threshold will activate. A 'Threshold' percentage will appear beneath the ColorDrop bubble. This represents the threshold amount. Drag your finger to the left to fill less area, and to the right to fill more area. Lift your finger to commit the fill.

ColorDrop will remember your chosen Threshold setting until they change. If you have it set to 100%, it will save at 97.6% to avoid color overflow.

Continue Filling

After a ColorDrop action, tap the 'Continue Filling' button just underneath the main tools at the top.

Now, tap successive areas of your layer with your finger in order to fill them with your active color. You can change your active color between filling actions, and you can use the ColorDrop Threshold each time you tap and hold an area, too.

Tap the blue tick next to 'ColorDrop' to finalise your changes and exit Continue Filling mode.

SwatchDrop

Touch and Hold a Swatch color from a Color Palette in the Color panel until the swatch lifts up from the palette.

While still holding your swatch, tap Done to close the Color panel and return to your canvas. Drag the swatch onto any area of your canvas and release to flood-fill that area with the swatch color.

Like ColorDrop, any color you SwatchDrop will spread outwards until it hits a boundary such as an outline, or an area of different color.

You can also use the Threshold when using SwatchDrop, too. Continue holding down after dragging out a swatch to an area, then drag left and right to adjust the Threshold.

Eyedropper

Instantly sample a new color from anywhere on your canvas.

Sample Color with Touch-and-Hold

Tap and hold anywhere on your canvas to invoke the Eyedropper.

Once the Eyedropper appears, drag it to any location on the canvas, and release to select your color.

Your new color displays on the top half of the loupe and the current color on the bottom half. Lift your finger to select your new color.

Eyedropper can also be accessed in the top left of the Color panel for Disc, Classic, Harmony and Value, tap Active Color > Eyedropper.

Sample Color from Current Layer

While holding down with the eyedropper, tap another finger on the screen to enable sampling from the current layer. This can be useful for grabbing the base color of a layer, even when blend modes or opacity changes might be applied, as in the example below.

Procreate Pocket will remember your last-chosen sampling method, but regardless of your choice, when you return to the Gallery and reenter a new canvas, it will return to sampling from the canvas and not the layer.