Resize without losing quality in Procreate
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- Easily resize in images in Procreate without losing any quality. My favorite tricks!
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In this video I will cover:
- Why do images get pixelated in procreate
- How to blow up images without losing resolution
- How to shrink images without pixelation
- How to rotate in Procreate without getting blurry
- How to lock aspect ratio when resizing
- Stop blurry resizing in Procreate
- How to adjust interpolation in Procreate
- How to adjust anti-aliasing in Procreate
- How to use nearest neighbor settings
- How to use bilinear settings in Procreate
- How to use bicubic settings in Procreate
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Man I needed this video a couple of weeks ago 😭 I tend to make my canvases bigger than what I need because I’m afraid of losing quality when I comes to sizing for printing. This will definitely help with that, thank you so much!!
Glad to help, I still recommend large canvas settings - but this should definitely help!
you saved my life!!! i was drawing with a pixel brush in 200 x 200 and i couldn't figure out how to resize it without throwing it through a trash compressor, thank you!
Currently illustrating my first book so I want everything to look clean tysm for this!!!
Just what I needed. Thanks!
wow cool! first time I hear about this in this way👍🏻thanks 4 sharing, will try!
This video helped me immensely!! Thankyouu soo much
tyvm for this video ! extremely useful :)
Thank you so much for this video!
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Tysm! I needed this information so bad. I’ve always wanted to make high-quality pieces, but I’ve been afraid that after all my work, I won’t be able to share or post it anywhere because the canvas is too big, and social media platforms will reduce the quality. Thank you again!!
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I've been needing this!!!
I'm happy to help!
Thank you so much for this video. Lol. Saved me so much frustration 😂.
this was so helpful!! thank you!
No prob!
Wondered what those options were about. Brilliant, thank you.
You're welcome! Now you know 😁
Thank you for making this video... it helps a lot 😄😄
Life saving info! Thank you!
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Thank you!! that really useful.
You're welcome!
Excellent tips, thank you
Happy to help :)
Best explanation I've heard. Thanks.
Happy to help!
Thank you so much. My pixel art always got so shitty When i tried to upscale it.
Great video. Thank you!!
Thanks Macey!
Thank you! As someone who's used photoshop for over a decade and been used to drawing at 3000 x 3000 px at 300dpi i used to feel so comfortable with scaling my art down, but on procreate it feels so different and i've been clueless.
Keep using 3000 px canvas! That’s what I use… If you have iPad Pro it can totally handle it
Thank you so much 👩🏻🤝👩🏼
No prob!
Really cool tip!
Hey Abi! Thanks for watching :D
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If I wanted to print a large poster size what would be the next dpi to draw on with procreate
Helpful stuff, for sure. Hopped on from the email as well. I have some scenarios where those tips might not apply but I'm not sure. The scenario might be in drawing a character and I might draw one foot and then just duplicate that layer so I don't have to redraw the other side. Initially after duplication it might be clean but if I move it or resize by the usual way of the transform tool, then it goes blurry on me. I had never used nor changed the Interpolation features so not sure why this is acting up now.
Try to change the interpolation, I believe this will cause any transform to behave differently!
thanks brudda
thanks so much
Anytime :D
Here from your email, this tip helps a ton! thanks!
Thanks for watching 😁
here from your email! this was super helpful thanks!! :)
Thanks for watching :D
Saw the email clicked so fast 😹 thanks for the video so helpful
Happy to help!
Great video. I do have a question... so at that high PXI, say 1200, would that make it a vector by setting it that high, or is it just crisper & still needs to be vectorized?
Procreate can only produce pixel images. It’s unable to program a vector image. The large canvas size at 300 dpi is enough to vectorize the design (in another software) without issue!
Hi @VisualTimmy, I created an artwork with lettering in procreate, canvas set to A4. (300dpi) Someone has requested to get it printed on canvas to a much bigger size (50*75cm) or (60*90cm) Which method would work to resize it? Or Should I be creating the drawing again? Thank you for your help! Am in a time crunch…
Oops, just now seeing this. I would always just try to resize using tools in Procreate, and then check the quality. Also feel free to ask the print shop. That's pretty large, so depending on the viewing distance and the artwork itself you will need to upscale it. For example, billboards are huge but have horrible dpi, since it's viewed from so far away you don't even notice!
Please someone help me ! I have to draw web size sns illustration for small canvas around 202×120 ,600 x 315 but everything i draw is like pig pixel i tryed to set the brush at minimum size but still... i imported a version of the illustration about 434x300 px but same probleme even trying what you teached im lost
That's hilarious because everyone always told us to make it bigger, we need to use bilinear... Why would they tell us that, when clearly nearest neighbor is better? Disappointing
Well, I don't want to throw anyone under the bus. Sometimes bilinear can be better, especially if you want edges to be softer/smoother. I would say most applications for increasing resolution, I would stick with nearest neighbor!
I prefer bilinear for animating and drawing as i work with drawing very fine lines and they get very pixelated when using nearest neighbour to rotate, so i Guess every one has its own use
I just tested them all out like he did, and I agree. Nearest neighbor retains the best quality it seems. At least in procreate anyway 😅
Thanks for the video. I recently tried to resize something and a little calculator-looking window popped up that was titled "Dimensions". Can I use this to resize by percentages? Do you know how to get this to pop back up? Thanks!
Yes I think you can, when you press the “move” arrow tool you should be able to resize with the dimensions window. Though I haven’t used this much and will need to look into it for more info!
I have this problem sometimes too. In my case, it helps if I close the procreate and open it again. It might be the cache. Open your file again and voilá the popup is back
So do you recommend scaling up or scaling down?
Because id like to print the same artworks on multiple items that are different sizes. So im wondering what size you would recommend id go to and is scaling smaller better then enlarging an image?
Always start large. It's easier to scale down than up, but if youre trying to scale down REALLY small, you might need to customize it a bit, or use a custom downsizing tool
@@VisualTimmy Thank you ill keep that in mind
Ha! I tried the first method of resizing the canvas and Procreate crashed 🙃
As a full time color separator in the screen printing industry, few things cause me as much stress as getting a file made with Procreate. Learn Photoshop, people. There is a reason it is the leader in the industry.
You can easily separate and export color channels in procreate using duplicate layers and a curves adjustment on each one
@@VisualTimmy perhaps you could get some rudimentary color seps from procreate, but that's not the issue. The issue is the artists creating the artwork generally know nothing about how to create a high resolution file. Artwork created at 300 ppi is generally unacceptable at the level I operate at. I have never had an artist submit a procreate file that was acceptable. We are talking about hundreds of files. Maybe there is one who could give me a file that doesn't look terrible, but I won't Believe it until I see it.
@@squeegologist So can you give us the tips on how we should submit artwork for print?
the fact that this seems to be the easiest way to resize stuff is WILD. why can't i just resize it the easy way procreate. Why
Will this work with font and designs 🤔
I make tshirts and do DTF prints and my image looks good but does show pixels
Using a raster based program like procreate will always show pixels if you zoom in close enough. But if your prints are not high quality enough and you can see obvious pixelation, then you should work in a higher DPI. 300 is standard for prints, but it depends on the size of your prints/ printer capabilities. Likely situation is that you started with too small of a canvas. If you just resize, it wont fix the issue. You'll need to start over or use an upscaler to try and reduce that pixelation!
I'm not sure how to use these tools for making a canvas smaller? bc when i make the canvas smaller it crops my image- do i play with nearest neighbor tools first before resizing?
Make a new canvas at the appropriate size, then import your image into that canvas!
quality looks good after the resize downward in procreate, but when i go to export and view it in my camera roll its bad
well, the camera roll will resize or stretch it to fill the screen, so if you're using a small resolution it may look bad in camera roll. What size are you trying to acheive?
Interesting, though you do not mention DPI dots per inch for printing
I always keep my Procreate aprojects at 300 dpi, even if web typically only needs 75. I do this for future compatibility… if I need to print, I know all my files are locked in at 300 dpi. Nothing more, nothing less!
Say I want to create a print to sell on Etsy and I want to offer it in multiple ratios, will this process be the correct process for that?
Also, what size canvas should I start with so that I can resize the art work into the multiple ratios that I want to offer?
When resizing for different ratios there will always be some cropping to avoid “empty bars” on the sides of the canvas. So design with that in mind, expect some areas to get chopped.
All depends on the largest print size you’ll be making, start there and make sure you’re using 300 dpi and the correct measurements for that canvas.
I'm so new to design and procreate. I've done 2 logos but they are coming out so blurry. I think I'm setting up the canvas wrong! Not exactly sure what the issue is...
What size canvas are you using? How large and how close are you viewing it. There will always be pixels since Procreate is a raster program, not vector!
so, if original is A4 size after reduce its not A4 any more is it?
i need the one can reduce file size but maintain paper size
If would be smaller in physical size after cropping. You need compression. So either you can use a service like TinyPNG or TinyJPG to compress your end file, or try to export from procreate as a JPG instead of PNG to save some space in the file. Let me know if you still need help!
How do I resize it without messing up layers
You can export the image as PNG then import them back into Procreate. Then resize. Or you can duplicate the project, and then in one of the projects flatten all the images then follow the tips above to resize
Just a note, there is still going to be some quality loss with this method. If you create something at 2000x2000 pixels at 150 dpi, and resample to 300, then you don't lose any quality. You are making your print size on paper smaller. Say 6 inches by 6 inches @ 300 dpi, which is perfect quality. But say you need your artwork to print at 12 inches x 12 inches @ 300dpi, then resizing your 2000x2000px canvas to be bigger causes quality loss. You're making up pixels that never existed in the first place. Procreate or Photoshop will use an setting like Bilinear to try and compensate for the missing data when resizing.
So remember, resampling DPI won't affect quality, just actual size on paper. More dpi, smaller the image gets, but retains the same quality. If you resample and change the canvas size bigger, then you lose quality. If you make the canvas smaller, then you retain quality, and can increase DPI.
Yes, there’s no reason to use anything more or less than 300dpi on new project. And resizing will always introduce artifacts, these steps only mitigate the change!
I want to make prints 8x11 how do I resize
I reccomend creating a fresh canvas in that size, and then importing your image to check if it looks ok at that size.
Will this stop my work getting blurt in Canva?
Depends on your canva settings
Im trying to make a minecraft texture pack and making an image 16 x 16 pixels while still keeping the same looks and resolution is there any way to do that and with what application?
Please clarify the issue. You want to create a 16x16 pixel image, while retaining quality of a larger image? Many textures that small have to be modified pixel by pixel so that it looks good at such small sizes. Maybe I can give some advice if you elaborate on the issue!
@@VisualTimmy whenever you open any texture for an item in minecraft and open the file for the item it says 16 x 16 pixels and whenever i drag and drop a high resoution image thats like 1000 x 600 example, and try to make it fit the 16 x 16 pixels it reduces the quality immesily and have seen other people fit high res pics into the 16 x 16 pixels
@@VisualTimmy i go to 3d paint and i get a ex (1000 x 5000) pixel photo and reduce its size and pixels to fit the item but it becomes pixelated
Does this work when adding imaged to your image.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. Please clarify the question so I can help :)
@@VisualTimmy thank you for reaching back to me. I really want to send you a screenshot to let you see what I’m talking about but I don’t know how to send that here
@@VisualTimmy need to send you a screenshot but don’t see the option
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I just don’t understand……… Why would Procreate come up with so many cool features… But same time still we have to manually do all this just not lose resolution. Does anyone benefit from having low res? Why is it not on auto settings?
Well, it really depends on what you're creating. The softer interpolation settings can be really good when warping and scaling specific objects. But when you're doing a big resizing, these settings really help!
Having manual options is nice, what I meant was auto downgrading the quality doesn’t seem to have any purpose and most likely more often an extra issue to deal with than anything else. At the same time it seems that almost all the photo editing/creating softwares face that same issue😐
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Importing to photos is giving me problems
What problem?
I lost a lot of quality doing that :(
What was the original size, and the desired upscale size?
@@VisualTimmy it was a lot, but I saw another tutorial that worked a lot better. I can post the link for you to see it as well hold onnn