I've watched several videos on this and yours is by far thr best. And you even showed hiw to take away the extra pixels at the end for s nice clean cut, so helpful! Thank you!
Your video is a life saver. I've watched multiple videos teaching the same technique, but yours is by far the best. Thank you taking the time to do this!!!
My pleasure! And actually, since I did this video so figured out you can turn on colorfill in the automatic selection panel after you invert your selection it will fill in your shape automatically. It’s pretty sweet!
I could hug you!!! You have no idea how many videos I’ve watched trying to figure this out. So many of them don’t create a hard enough edge after the Gaussian Blur and a lot of them moved too quickly through some of it and I couldn’t figure out why I wasn’t getting the results they were. Your video is by far the simplest steps and the best end product. SO thankful I found this video!
Oh yay!!! Since I did this video though I figured out you can just turn color fill on (with white selected) instead of having to color everything in woh a brush. I’ve got another video coming soon with my tips for finishing stickers like a pro- and it will have that tip. But I’m pretty excited about that. ❤️ Thanks for the comment- it totally made my day!
Love this! I’ve been sticker making for almost a year now and your video taught me at least 10 new things that will make my stickering easier and more beautiful, particularly how to duplicate the canvas in the gallery (how did I not know how to do this!?) and how to remove the halo pixels so quickly (I literally gasped when I saw your method!). Thank you so much!! Also, I never use exclamation marks so much. Your video just brought them out of me 😁. You should be proud!
Wow! This is a wonderful comment to wake up to this morning. Thank you! One more quick tip that I figured out after I made the video- you can just select white as your active color and turn in color fill in selection and it fills it in automatically. So slick!
THANK YOU for making this video! Finally, one that actually works!! And not only that, but you are such a good teacher that it was an absolute breeze to follow your instructions! Thanks again!
Finally found someone who could tell me how to remove that halo effect! Smart! I have done borders in different ways and this looks like an easy fix for when I do it wrong
I reference this tutorial at least every other month! So helpful! I even discovered a print and cut work around to maximize the space on my sticker paper !
@@WellCraftedStudio you just upload the design into design space, create an offset and turn off the original layer (so you’re only working with the offset layer) then create a 8.5x11 rectangle and cut that from a 12x12 piece of scrapbook paper of card stock. Pull out the rectangle and leave the rest on the mat. This will be the template of where to place your sticker paper on your mat. Then cut from your offset layer! May take some tinkering and trial an error but you can use more of the 8.5x11 sticker sheets. I use this technique to cut my embroidery patterns from adhesive stabilizer!
Hey! On step 6, a shortcut to not have to use a white brush & go over the layer is to (while inverted) add a new layer, select the White color, and just fill the layer. 😊 This is a great tutorial! Nice job
Thank you! I watched so many of these videos trying to figure out how to outline my stickers. This is the first one that I could successfully follow, being a procreate noob lol
Oh I’m so glad! Now that you are a noob no more- be sure to check out my video on best tips for finishing your stickers. I have an updated trick using color fill that’s makes it even a little more fast and fun.
It can seem that way. But it’s easier then you’d think. Procreate can be as simple as drawing on a piece of paper. Or it can get as deep as graphic design software. I like that you can do pretty amazing things without it being complicated. ❤️ Thanks for commenting friend!
Oh good!!! The automatic selection is totally is a game-changer as far as cleaning up gouache brushes and the like are concerned. Thanks for leaving a comment!
Can you do a tutorial on your sticker background brush? I didn’t see standard one on procreate and tried to see if you had a video available for the brush tutorial….or can you share on here how you made it? Thanks so much, this really helped. I kept doing other ways to do the background and it turned out nicely but they always were a bit pixelated around the edges and my cricut would cut those, so no smooth edges around my stickers.
Hi Demi! I do have the brush as a free download on my blog. But basically I upped the streamline, used a hard edge source shape, and removed all taper or pressure sensitivity. If you use a hard airbrush it’s probably comparable. There were a few other little mods I think too. But, I think a bit part of avoiding the jagged edges on Cricut is to use the clean-up trick I demo at the end of this video. So if you try it with a hard airbrush, or with my sticker brush and you’re still getting the edges be sure to try the clean up trick. If you’re STILL getting the rough edges it may be something else like the dpi of your canvas and the size Cricut is importing at. That’s just a guess though.
That jaggedness is the pixels. So they do show when you zoom in a lot. And then you don’t always see them when you zoom out. But sometimes the brush is just slightly jagged and that pixelated look is part of the stroke. Or if you tried to make the image larger then it originally was, it will get more pixelated edges. For sticker borders you want things as smooth as possible.
It’s something you can turn on in the brush studio. So if you tap your brush and then go to the “taper” you can turn on tip animation. That should do it.
This is the best instruction I've seen for creating borders. I am still confused about how to have my business name or logo on the sheet without it being cut. At the end when you have the two remaining layers...you don't need to merge them before turning them into a png and exporting? Thanks so much for the great video!
Nope! Don’t merge them. Just export as PNG. For the business name you can just upload it to Procreate as a .png if you have it like that. Then follow the same instructions to add the border.
@nadine k Do your print and cut sticker sheet with your name and logo grouped to your sticker sheet. Print the sheet. You want to go back hide the cut file for the name/logo in cricut design space in the layers menu, then continue and go on to cutting. Alternatively you can change the cut line around you name/logo to score, and then just dont put the scoring tool in the machine. It will go thru the motions but nothing will be scored or cut. Hope this was helpful. Cheers 😊✌️🎨 Edit: forgotten word
All you have to do is go to my blog and subscribe. You get a password right away and that brush plus a bunch of others is in my free library. You can unsubscribe anytime with a link at the bottom of my emails. Here’s a link- wellcraftedstudio.com/procreate-sticker-border-brush/ Thanks for asking!
Hi Emily! Don’t worry! You probably forgot to invert after you selected so the color fill filled in the background instead of your image. You can switch the color fill off and only turn it on after you inverted or you can just ignore the panic when it fills the whole screen and hit the invert and it will flip. If that’s not what the problem is then you may have to adjust your threshold. In a separate step. So let me know if this works. 👍🏻
Online labels white glossy. I’ve tried others but some are a little more cream then true white. And the colors seem to show up with more vibrancy with this paper.
Right after I choose to invert bottom and select the brush and color, it won’t fill in inside the area it will paint where ever my brush touches. What am I doing wrong?
Hi Sildain, I’m guessing you missed something small. Like switching to a different layer? If a tutorial doesn’t work quite right for me I usually go back and repeat the steps. If it helps, I have a blog post that breaks it down step-by-step with photos. You might be able to see more easily where it went sideways. The link is in the description. Hope that helps!
I use a brush I made that is more streamlined and doesn’t taper so I get smooth hard edges. You can download it for free with the link in the description.
Thank you!! This is the first time I've gotten decent borders without wanting to yeet everything into the lake!
I messed around in design space FOREVER trying to get rid of the halo!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
Oh I'm SO glad this helped! And sorry I didn't see this comment right away!
I've watched several videos on this and yours is by far thr best. And you even showed hiw to take away the extra pixels at the end for s nice clean cut, so helpful! Thank you!
Oh thank you!!! I love hearing that. And thanks for taking the time to leave a comment!
Thank you so much!!! You're a life saver!
Your video is a life saver. I've watched multiple videos teaching the same technique, but yours is by far the best. Thank you taking the time to do this!!!
My pleasure! And actually, since I did this video so figured out you can turn on colorfill in the automatic selection panel after you invert your selection it will fill in your shape automatically. It’s pretty sweet!
I could hug you!!! You have no idea how many videos I’ve watched trying to figure this out. So many of them don’t create a hard enough edge after the Gaussian Blur and a lot of them moved too quickly through some of it and I couldn’t figure out why I wasn’t getting the results they were. Your video is by far the simplest steps and the best end product. SO thankful I found this video!
Oh yay!!! Since I did this video though I figured out you can just turn color fill on (with white selected) instead of having to color everything in woh a brush. I’ve got another video coming soon with my tips for finishing stickers like a pro- and it will have that tip. But I’m pretty excited about that. ❤️ Thanks for the comment- it totally made my day!
Love this! I’ve been sticker making for almost a year now and your video taught me at least 10 new things that will make my stickering easier and more beautiful, particularly how to duplicate the canvas in the gallery (how did I not know how to do this!?) and how to remove the halo pixels so quickly (I literally gasped when I saw your method!). Thank you so much!!
Also, I never use exclamation marks so much. Your video just brought them out of me 😁. You should be proud!
Wow! This is a wonderful comment to wake up to this morning. Thank you! One more quick tip that I figured out after I made the video- you can just select white as your active color and turn in color fill in selection and it fills it in automatically. So slick!
@@WellCraftedStudio What another wonderful tip! Definitely gonna try that one out.
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WOOOOOWWWW !!! EXCELLENT, thank you very much, you are awesome! Subscribed.
Thank you!!! Both for subscribing and the comment- totally made my night!
Thanks for this!! great tutorial!
I’m so glad it was helpful!!! And thanks for taking the time to let me know. ❤️
THANK YOU for making this video! Finally, one that actually works!! And not only that, but you are such a good teacher that it was an absolute breeze to follow your instructions! Thanks again!
Your comment totally made my day! Thanks for taking the time to share this!
Finally found someone who could tell me how to remove that halo effect! Smart! I have done borders in different ways and this looks like an easy fix for when I do it wrong
Oh yay! I’m so glad. It is totally annoying, But kind of satisfying when you cut and paste and can see everything that’s removed. 😂
I like how you decorated your Cricut 🤪✨
Ha!!!! That’s awesome! I still love it.The bird design is free in my Free Library on my blog if you’re interested. ❤️
Thank you so much!!
My pleasure!
I reference this tutorial at least every other month! So helpful! I even discovered a print and cut work around to maximize the space on my sticker paper !
Ha! That’s so awesome! I haven’t looked into the workarounds for that. Which one do you like?
@@WellCraftedStudio you just upload the design into design space, create an offset and turn off the original layer (so you’re only working with the offset layer) then create a 8.5x11 rectangle and cut that from a 12x12 piece of scrapbook paper of card stock. Pull out the rectangle and leave the rest on the mat. This will be the template of where to place your sticker paper on your mat. Then cut from your offset layer! May take some tinkering and trial an error but you can use more of the 8.5x11 sticker sheets.
I use this technique to cut my embroidery patterns from adhesive stabilizer!
Wow, you make it look so easy! I might have to ask for an iPad Pro for my birthday; drawing on it looks like a lot of fun. Thank you!
Ummm.. YEAH!!! 🎂 = 📱 ❣️
By far the best and most informative background making video I have, as of yet, come across 👏🏽
Thank you!!! I super appreciate your encouragement. Have a great day!
Hey! On step 6, a shortcut to not have to use a white brush & go over the layer is to (while inverted) add a new layer, select the White color, and just fill the layer. 😊 This is a great tutorial! Nice job
Yes! I wish I could add to videos after the fact. What I've started to do is make the active color white and just tap on the color fill. So slick!
Thank you! I watched so many of these videos trying to figure out how to outline my stickers. This is the first one that I could successfully follow, being a procreate noob lol
Oh I’m so glad! Now that you are a noob no more- be sure to check out my video on best tips for finishing your stickers. I have an updated trick using color fill that’s makes it even a little more fast and fun.
@@WellCraftedStudio thanks! For sure! I subscribed so I wouldn't lose you, so I'll make sure to check that one out
SO HELPFUL OH MY GOD I'VE BEEN TRYING FOR HOURS!!
This makes me laugh uncontrollably. Thanks for your comment! 😂😂😂
TY so much! Way easier, neat and prettier...luv it!
Hi Sina! Oh I’m so glad you like it. I think it’s pretty magical. 🤩
Thank you so much. This was very helpful. 🙌🏼 God bless you.
I’m so glad and blessings on your day too!
Finally instructions that actually work!!! Thank you so much 💕
Yay!!! I’m thrilled to hear it!
And thanks for taking the time to leave a comment- I really appreciate it!
Wow, Jen! Thanks for the instruction. I've never tried Procreate, or ANY of the designing programs... very intimidating!
It can seem that way. But it’s easier then you’d think. Procreate can be as simple as drawing on a piece of paper. Or it can get as deep as graphic design software. I like that you can do pretty amazing things without it being complicated. ❤️ Thanks for commenting friend!
Thanks for sharing. Great tips!! Now I understand the select tool a little more.
I’m so glad! Thank you for commenting. ❤️
Very clean explanation thank you 👍
You’re welcome! Thanks for your comment!
Thank you so much! This is amazing
I’m so glad!!!
Thankyou so much for this video, it was very helpful.
I am so happy I found you and your lovely videos!Thank you so much for taking the time to share this 😊
Hi! So sorry I missed this comment! Thank you for taking the time to leave it!
@@WellCraftedStudio no problem at all!
This was so helpful and quick!
I’m glad you liked it!
THANK YOU!!
Great video! I can’t wait to try this tip. Thanks for sharing.
Absolutely! I’m so glad you liked it! ❤️❤️❤️
Tanks for this, very helpful!! 🥰
Sure!! It's super fun.
Girl, you made this so easy to understand! THANK YOU! New subscriber here - can’t wait to binge the rest of your vids 😅👍🏻
Oh my gosh I totally missed this comment. Thanks for letting me know it was helpful!
This is amazing! Such great tips for the perfect clean sticker, thank you so much!
Oh good!!! The automatic selection is totally is a game-changer as far as cleaning up gouache brushes and the like are concerned. Thanks for leaving a comment!
where can one find your sticker border brush, I can't seem to locate it on your website link?
Awesome tutorial! Thank you.
Woohoo! I’m glad it helped!
thank you for this! this was super helpful so I also shared this to my fellow people in need of this knowledge XD (aka my sister)
I LOVE IT! Sisters need help sometimes too. ❤️
Can you do a tutorial on your sticker background brush? I didn’t see standard one on procreate and tried to see if you had a video available for the brush tutorial….or can you share on here how you made it? Thanks so much, this really helped. I kept doing other ways to do the background and it turned out nicely but they always were a bit pixelated around the edges and my cricut would cut those, so no smooth edges around my stickers.
Hi Demi! I do have the brush as a free download on my blog. But basically I upped the streamline, used a hard edge source shape, and removed all taper or pressure sensitivity. If you use a hard airbrush it’s probably comparable. There were a few other little mods I think too.
But, I think a bit part of avoiding the jagged edges on Cricut is to use the clean-up trick I demo at the end of this video. So if you try it with a hard airbrush, or with my sticker brush and you’re still getting the edges be sure to try the clean up trick. If you’re STILL getting the rough edges it may be something else like the dpi of your canvas and the size Cricut is importing at. That’s just a guess though.
@@WellCraftedStudio thank you so much!! I’ll check into all of those things.
You are a saint
Glad you think so!!! 😂
Thank you so muchhh
My pleasure!!! I’m thrilled you liked it!
Hello! Your tutorial is very easy to follow. Thank yoU!! Is it normal that the outlines are jagged? Is that only because it is zoomed in a lot?
That jaggedness is the pixels. So they do show when you zoom in a lot. And then you don’t always see them when you zoom out. But sometimes the brush is just slightly jagged and that pixelated look is part of the stroke. Or if you tried to make the image larger then it originally was, it will get more pixelated edges. For sticker borders you want things as smooth as possible.
@@WellCraftedStudio Thank you so much for your help!
how did you make it so where you can see the circle of outline of your brush??
It’s something you can turn on in the brush studio. So if you tap your brush and then go to the “taper” you can turn on tip animation. That should do it.
This is the best instruction I've seen for creating borders. I am still confused about how to have my business name or logo
on the sheet without it being cut. At the end when you have the two remaining layers...you don't need to merge them before turning them into a png and exporting? Thanks so much for the great video!
Nope! Don’t merge them. Just export as PNG. For the business name you can just upload it to Procreate as a .png if you have it like that. Then follow the same instructions to add the border.
And thank you Nadine for the comment- I’m so glad it was helpful!!!!
@nadine k Do your print and cut sticker sheet with your name and logo grouped to your sticker sheet. Print the sheet. You want to go back hide the cut file for the name/logo in cricut design space in the layers menu, then continue and go on to cutting.
Alternatively you can change the cut line around you name/logo to score, and then just dont put the scoring tool in the machine. It will go thru the motions but nothing will be scored or cut.
Hope this was helpful. Cheers 😊✌️🎨
Edit: forgotten word
@@hippieartist155 thank you!
My question is how do you get the sticker set brushes ? I’m stuck on that part
All you have to do is go to my blog and subscribe. You get a password right away and that brush plus a bunch of others is in my free library. You can unsubscribe anytime with a link at the bottom of my emails.
Here’s a link- wellcraftedstudio.com/procreate-sticker-border-brush/
Thanks for asking!
@@WellCraftedStudio omg love you thanks so much going to subscribe now
Thanks for the smile!
When I try to do the white it is a no go for me it just fills in everything white I am so frustrated pleas help me 😩
Hi Emily! Don’t worry! You probably forgot to invert after you selected so the color fill filled in the background instead of your image. You can switch the color fill off and only turn it on after you inverted or you can just ignore the panic when it fills the whole screen and hit the invert and it will flip. If that’s not what the problem is then you may have to adjust your threshold. In a separate step. So let me know if this works. 👍🏻
What kind of sticker paper do you use?? They're great!
Online labels white glossy. I’ve tried others but some are a little more cream then true white. And the colors seem to show up with more vibrancy with this paper.
In selecting the background mine turns white when my background is set to blue
Yes! It picks a contrasting color.
Right after I choose to invert bottom and select the brush and color, it won’t fill in inside the area it will paint where ever my brush touches. What am I doing wrong?
Hi Sildain, I’m guessing you missed something small. Like switching to a different layer? If a tutorial doesn’t work quite right for me I usually go back and repeat the steps. If it helps, I have a blog post that breaks it down step-by-step with photos. You might be able to see more easily where it went sideways. The link is in the description. Hope that helps!
Thank you. 😁
What brush do you use?
I use a brush I made that is more streamlined and doesn’t taper so I get smooth hard edges. You can download it for free with the link in the description.
Great, but the border is always pixelated
Have you tried the clean up tip at the end of the video? That usually eliminates the fuzziness on the edges.
Procreate pocket
Or
Procreate
Procreate is for iPad. Procreate pocket is for iPhone. I really don’t know the pocket edition at all. Hope that helps!