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Customize Procreate to suit your workflow. Adjust the look of the interface or mirror your canvas to a connected screen. Change your interface, tweak the Pressure Curve, and personalize Gesture Controls to suit your working style.
Tweak your Procreate interface to look the way you like.
Go to Actions → Prefs to change the appearance and behavior of the Procreate interface. Do this using a series of easy-to-use toggles and sliders.
Hover gestures allow you to adjust the size and opacity of your brush without using the sidebar. Turning the size and opacity sidebar off allows for a cleaner user interface when using these features.
Adjust the way Procreate responds to your Apple Pencil and touch.
Two menu options in the middle of the Preferences panel control Procreate’s touch and pressure responses. You'll find these by tapping Actions → Prefs.
Apply Stabilization, Motion Filtering, and tweak Procreate’s overall App Pressure Sensitivity to match input stability and sensitivity to the way you draw.
Stabilization and motion filtering can be applied globally as an accessibility feature in the Pressure and Smoothing settings of Procreate. These settings can help artists who experience tremors achieve smoother stroke-making in Procreate.
Access these settings by tapping Actions > Prefs > Pressure and Smoothing.
For a full explanation of how these settings work, check out Stroke Stabilization in the Accessibility section of Interface & Gestures in this handbook.
The Apple Pencil has a huge dynamic range. This means you have to press down very hard to reach 100% pressure or opacity. Artists who draw with a lighter touch might find they don't enjoy the full range of the Pencil’s sensitivity when using the default settings.
To get the most out of the Apple Pencil, use Procreate’s customizable App Pressure Sensitivity curve. Do this to adjust the feel of your Pencil or stylus to your liking.
Tap Pressure & Smoothing to access the App Pressure Sensitivity curve settings.
The default curve is a straight diagonal line. Drag this line to move it as a smooth curve, or tap to add up to six handles.
The horizontal (side-to-side) axis of the graph defines pressure. Positioning the curve further to the left means your Pencil will respond quicker to lighter pressure. Pushing the curve to the right means you will have to press the Pencil down harder to get a response.
The vertical (up and down) axis sets the value of the Pencil’s output. Maximum value (top) means the brush is producing 100% of its possible thickness or opacity. Moving toward the minimum value at the bottom means a thinner or more transparent stroke.
To remove a handle, tap it again to reveal the Delete and Reset options. To undo all your changes and return to the default curve, tap Reset.
To undo all your global settings in Pressure & Smoothing, scroll down and tap Reset all.
Modify and adjust Procreate’s array of gesture controls to work the way you prefer.
Tap Actions → Prefs → Gesture Controls to open the Gesture Controls panel. This panel gives you the ability to modify shortcuts for a variety of Procreate's tools.
Most shortcuts toggle on or off. You can set up multiple shortcuts for the same function. Or, deactivate all shortcuts from functions you rarely use. Where a shortcut triggers by touch-and-hold, use a slider to set the delay before that shortcut triggers.
You cannot assign the same shortcut to two different features. Activating a shortcut on one feature can cause a conflict with another feature that is already using the same shortcut. If this is the case, a yellow warning icon will flash up next to the conflicting feature.
Some features, like QuickMenu , Layer Select , and Drawing Assist , aren’t enabled by default. Choose any gesture option in those sections of Gesture Controls to enable them.
To learn how to perform any of the gestures listed below, scroll to the Gesture Glossary at the bottom of this page.
Learn more about Drawing Assist .
If you invoke QuickMenu by touching the canvas, leave your finger or Apple Pencil pressed down. Drag to instantly select a QuickMenu option. Once familiar with the location of each item in your radial QuickMenu, you can perform this movement quickly. This becomes so quick a simple flick in the right direction will trigger the option you need.
Learn more about QuickMenu .
Set up a simple shortcut to toggle Full Screen mode, or set it to invoke and dismiss automatically.
The first four shortcuts in the list toggle Full Screen on and off. Trigger the action once, and it will invoke Full Screen. Trigger it again and it will dismiss Full Screen and return to the normal interface.
Automatic
If Automatic Full Screen is enabled, the interface automatically dismisses as you start painting. Once you lift off the canvas, the interface will return after the set delay. Drag the slider to the left to decrease this delay, or to the right to increase it.
When in Full-Screen mode, you can always return to the interface by tapping the button in the top left corner.
Turn on gesture controls associated with hover functionality.
This option turns on extra gesture controls when using Apple Pencil hover. Toggle on to adjust brush size with a pinch gesture, and adjust opacity with a finger slide gesture.
Hover requires iPadOS 16.1 or newer running on iPad Pro 12.9-in. (6th generation) or iPad Pro 11-in. (4th generation) or newer while using Apple Pencil 2nd generation or Apple Pencil Pro.
To dismiss the Gesture Control panel, tap Done to return to your canvas.
Learn how to perform all the gestures available in Gesture Controls.
You should perform gestures on the canvas area of your screen unless otherwise specified. Multiple gestures can sometimes combine (for example, Hold Modify Button + Touch). All combinations are listed here.
An extremely brief touch with one finger.
Touch or draw with one finger.
Hold one finger down in place for a second or so.
Use the tip of the Apple Pencil to touch or draw on the canvas.
Quickly tap twice on the flat area on the side of the Apple Pencil (Second generation).
Briefly touch the square button on the left-hand sidebar.
Hold down the square button on the left-hand sidebar.
Hold down the square button on the left-hand sidebar while drawing on the canvas with the Apple Pencil.
Touch the canvas with one finger while holding down the square button on the left-hand sidebar with another finger.
Draw with a finger or pencil and hold at the end of the stroke to turn your hand-drawn shape into a perfect shape. (Gesture used for QuickShape only)
Brush three fingers back and forth on the canvas to clear the layer. (Gesture used for Clear Layer only)
Brush downwards on the canvas with three fingers.
Tap with four fingers at once.
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