In this lesson, we're going to take a look at the adjustments menu, and all of the options that are included in the section. So for this lesson, I've actually opened one of my illustrations that I've done for my youtube channel goes paper, and I've broken down and simplified into some key layers. And the reason for that is that it can show best what the adjustment adjustment menu can do for us. So the very first option in the adjustments menu is opacity. So let's just click on the sub layer here, go back to our adjustments menu, click capacity. And now we see a slider here at the top, which basically controlling the slider makes the sun more transparent or less transparent, more opaque.

So basically, it's the opacity of the layer and the same can be done If you just click with two fingers on to a layer or any layer, and you can also adjust the opacity. So we're going to take a look at these shortcuts and gestures in a further lesson where we're going to be talking about how to become a pro on procreate. So there are multiple ways to achieve whatever you need to do in procreate, and you can do it with gestures, which we will see. Take a look at that on a further lesson in this class. And you can also find these options just by navigating the menus. The second option still here in the sun layer is motion blur.

And Gaussian Blur also gives you a slider which by adjusting the slider, you see the sun becomes more and more blurred. And you see the amount of blur here at the very, very top. As you apply this blur as you're still inside the store, you see there's a way to cancel the amount of blur to Undo, Redo and reset if If I just hit Undo, it will probably take me back to zero. Clicking redo puts me back to the value that I've placed, which I believe was 30% of blur. Reset just reverts the layer back into its original position or its state and then cancel, it just cancels D cancels the operation. So continuing here with the adjustments layer, next we have motion blur.

And motion blur, I believe, is just based on the direction base. Basically, as you can see, I'm just directing where I want the motion blur to go in terms of vector and it's all done with your pencil. And also the amount is controlled by how much you're dragging that away from the original position of the layer. As you can see, the more I drag this you see the motion blur is increasing in percentage. It is also creating more of a streak visual and the last that I dragged my pin is quitting getting less of an amount of blur, and the object is a little bit more visible or less blurred. And the same can be said here at the bottom, you still have the same options as Undo, you can redo, reset the object and cancel this operation.

So let's keep going. The next one we have here is perspective blur. And perspective blur is a very interesting effect. What which gives you right off the bat gives you the circle here, which are able to move around bro value right now is at zero percent. So I'm just going to increase that. I'm just going to go all the way to 100.

And now you can see that it's almost like I'm setting the focus with this little circle right here. So if I move the circle upwards, you see the blur. It's at the bottom, and if I do, move the circle to the bottom of this Son, you see the blur is now at the top. So let's actually go, hit cancel, let's try this effect on to the layer woman. And let's see go into adjustments go into perspective blur, and I'll set this at the bottom, increase a blur to be more extreme. And I believe you can really see this effect.

As I'm traveling around the little circle busier here. As you can see, the amount of blur is really increased at the top or at the bottom. And if I change the directional, you see that our UI here expands to the circle expense so that you get the blur still happening in a similar manner as positional, but you also get this arrow they're able to travel. So basically you're saying I want my blurred to start top down, but also go to the bottom right direction. So it's a more of a you know, you have more options here on direction Then just using the positional blur. And again, the same can be said here at the bottom, you have the Undo, reset, and redo and canceled operations.

So moving on with the manual of adjustments, the next one is sharpen. I personally don't use sharpen that much, because I try to already create my graphics to the scale that they need to be. So for example, if you're scaling up your canvas if you started your illustration really small in your canvas, and if you're scaling up, you might get the aliasing problems such as the jagged edges, and there will be a reason why you would you would like to or one to sharpen your image. But then again, it's just a slider here at the top and the more that you drag, you'll see that the edge of your layer where the pixels are will become sharper and sharper, but also to the cost of them looking a little bit strange. So as you can see here, it sharpens at 100%, I'm just going to try to zoom in this as much as I can.

And you start to see some really strange edging effect happening here on the, on this layer, you see this like white outline almost a happening. And that's the exaggeration of sharpening those edges to be as crisp as possible. And the same can also be set to my shading to the shading effects of this layer, all of a sudden, they're becoming so crisp, that's actually creating a bit of a Moray effect. And if I go and I decrease the slider, you see that the the harshness that was applied with the sharpen effect is actually decreasing to the point that my edges are now actually back to what I wanted them to be like not to have this white, a harsh outline. So the reason why, you know, as I said before, I'm drawing when I'm making my illustrations, I'm trying to always make them to the size that I actually want my canvas to be.

I'm planning my illustrations from the very beginning. So sharpen is a tool that I personally don't use as much. But maybe let's just say that you wanted to stylize something that you've created. So as you saw, like how the that speckle effect was a little bit more intense, maybe you're playing with something that looks kind of a printed effect, or kind of halftone effect. And I would see then sharpened as a good solution in terms of effect to enhance that visual. But in any case, I just wanted to show you what this tool does.

And moving on then we have noise. Noise once again, slider here at the top and just applies a color noise to your image. There are usually two types of noise when you're dealing with digital illustration and digital. You know software is just such as Photoshop. You are given the option to use monochromatic and colorful in the case of procreate, it's only giving us the colorful way of adding noise. And it is a very straightforward effect here.

As you see there's cancel, undo, reset, just as the other operations also had. So I'm just going to hit cancel, and let's move on with the list. But just so I explained something noise, the reason why noise is mostly used. It's basically whenever you're making gradients. And let's just say you're creating something that has a gradation on to like a really big area of a canvas. And you're going let's say from green to blue.

Sometimes you see bars within the gradient, and it's almost like a stepping effect of bars. And it's unintentional because you're actually what you want is to create a very smooth, a blur that goes from green to blue. So the reason why people add in ways in artists and noise is so that this noise he goes in into the gradation of that gradient and helps it to give the sense that that gradient is actually smooth. So it's a way It's a trick to actually make gradients smooth. Next up, we have liquify and liquefy, we're going to skip and leave it for last year on this lesson. And that is because I believe that liquify is great for certain specific thing here on procreate, which, which I will show you at the end of this lesson.

So let's continue with the other options here for adjustments. I'm going to use this time I'm going to click on mountains and looking at the list here. Now we have the color grading options here on the adjustments layer. And the first one is hue, saturation and brightness. So again, one thing to say here, just before we get into these four options is that for these correction options. I personally use them at the end of whatever I'm making on procreate at the end of my illustrations.

And the reason for that is again, based on planning, I usually I usually select a color palette from the beginning and I work with these collars, I test them I make, you know, I first make a sketch later, then I make a color blocking of just like selecting these colors. And then finally, I get into, you know, the final illustration with sharp details and everything as best as it can be. And so, at the end of it all, saying I'm not really happy with the results or like how the color combination is, is working, you know, then I can actually go here and use these facts and see what else I can get a second, third or even fourth options. So for example, hitting the Hue Saturation here on the layer of mountains. I could see if I actually wanted to swing the mountains to be a little bit more pink.

It is actually quite nice. And you could also play with saturation if you wanted to make them a little bit more subdued. And now in this case, we're starting to really put the attention more on the character and the background, and not so much on the mid ground, which would be the mountains. And finally, you can also play with the darkness or brightness off that layer. So you really create some interesting effects and results that I highly recommend to you if you are tweaking these layers to make copies make backups, because even though here we have the Preview button, which allows you to just toggle on and off between the before and after states, we have the Undo reset button. The thing is, is that once they apply this correction, I'm just going to click here the arrow and apply it.

Now I'm still with my only copy of this layer mountains. And if I want it to roll back, I can just undo this operation, but if you keep moving forward, you won't have the copy of the mountains. How they They were looking to four. So always make sure to keep a copy of whatever you're doing, if specially you're working with the color grading options on your illustrations. Moving on, we also have color balance and color balance is something that I use quite a bit. And again, I use it at a later stage of my illustrations.

In fact, color balance, we're going to go to this layer, which I've made here, which basically is a merge of everything. It's all my illustration in all the layers of my illustration in one layer. And the reason for that is once we get into color balance, it's almost the fine tune of our illustration to the fine tune of the look of our illustration. So here you see that you get three bars. In these bars, there's a balance as the name of the effects as this purse balance is between cyan and read. The second one is between magenta and green and the third one's between yellow and Blue.

Then here on the right side, you have three types of channels are where you're going to affect the image, you have the highlights of the image, which means there, those are the brighter colors, so it will probably affect. So once you're here in the highlights, for example, you would affect once you tweak these levels or these bars, you would be affecting more the sky, the pants and the character in this part of the mountain right here. Rather, rather than the sun or the mountains or the darker tones, or even the shirt or the hair color for character, then we get into the mid tones. As the name says it will be a little bit of both, it will be a little bit of the brighter and darker colors. And finally shadows you'll probably affect once I tweak these bars in the sliders, it would affect more the hair the shirt other than the very bright areas of our illustration.

So let me just show you what this does, starting with shadows. So let's just say I want to tweak The slider a little bit more into the red tones, since this image already has a little bit this like red, nice red richness going around. As you can see, as I drag the slider, it's really affecting the darker tones of our illustration, mostly the hair in the shirt of character. If I drag it all the way to the Scion, he creates that opposite of colors effect, which can also be really nice as you see. I'm just going to zoom in a little bit more where we were before and dragging it to sign. There's more of a separation between background and the hair off offer character.

But again, I'm just going to leave here on red as this is kind of like a monochromatic illustration, and movie here still in shadows. I can go to the magenta levels, or I can bring it to the green levels in green probably makes this a little bit more like old or like timed illustration And that's just an effect that you can find in many filters in Photoshop, Instagram, Instagram filters, but it's a matter of preference. And I'm just going to actually leave. I'm actually going to leave a little bit more here on the magenta. Finally here on yellow and blue. A bit of a trick here that you can do in the sign is that on the shadows level, if you do drag it into blue usually makes this really interesting cool hint to your illustration.

So I personally kind of always traveled towards the blue here on my shows. It does give this like nice look to your illustrations, which is something that you can almost compare to photography, when you're revealing pictures when you're using old school photography. Having that kind of a bluish tone here on the shadows is something that does looks quite nice. So moving on to Midtown. So let's see what that that can do once we drag these sliders. So in this case, mid tones can do a lot of changes, or it can actually not do a lot of changes so you cannot see like that much change.

Here just dragging the first slider, I'm actually only seeing a little bit of change on the bottom at the bottom of these mountains right here. And now when I switch between magenta and green now I'm starting to see a little bit more of a change. And as you can see, the change really is happening more within the shadows of this overall frame and also deep back of her character. You see that the shadows are really changing to a pinkish stone. I'm again going to bring it a little bit more into the pink and finally yellow. It's not really doing a lot to the picture between the yellow and blue and that is because these colors are really affecting more the mid tones In the calculation, I think I'm actually for this, I'm just, I might just leave somewhere around here.

Finally highlights. If I drag these, as this picture has a lot of highlights, it's also really affecting it. I might just leave to about the center actually not going to move highlights so much. Because it's really tweaking the image. I might just do this. And now if I click Preview, you see the difference between before and after.

Leslie here on the color grading options, we have curves, which I do also use quite a bit, especially at the end. Once I have a merge of all of my layers. We can do curves with the whole picture, and that's why there is a composite channel right here. You can do curves on just the red levels on a picture. And as you can see, the red levels here are really increasing. almost a month, almost blowing up as I drag these curves super high right here, or I can decrease the redness levels on my picture.

Just gonna bring it back into the middle, I can do the same with green. And finally, the same with blue. But again, just as a little trick that I like to do on my illustrations, just gonna bring this a little bit better here. So you can see it's on the famous curve, the S curve which you just put one, one you busier here when one busier here and one in the middle. And now if you drag up the brightness just a bit, not too much and drag this bottom, just a little bit down and the middle. It's kind of like up to you.

Sometimes I do like to bring it just a little bit above the center, or you can do the opposite and bring it up but the effect more or less Have the curves will look something like this. And it's a very like, subtle ask curve right here. Now again, hitting preview, you see a little bit of a difference on before and after. You can also undo and reset. And then again, it's not that I always use this option. Sometimes it doesn't really work with my illustration.

In this case, for example, I don't even think that is working as well as what I had before just hitting preview here, I think actually had more information, especially in the shadows that were that are happening here on the right side of my illustration. So I'm just going to hit reset, and click away with the tools and not actually apply any curves but sometimes curves really help to pop your illustrations, especially the colors of your illustrations. And finally we have red color, and red color is a really interesting effect. Which what is trying to do here is where I'm pointing with a cursor. Right here, you see this little cross here I can procreate is trying to apply my color, which right now is a very dark, kind of dark bluish kind of like a greenish color. It's trying to apply this color on to the area that I'm pointing with my cursor.

However, because my flood, there's a flood slider here that's set to 100. It's, it's this is a threshold level and is really trying to acquire as much as possible from the image. So if I bring this down, it's going to start to on not, it's, it's going to start to clear up from a few sections of this illustration, more and more until we get to a point where I would say this is really close, but there's still like some artifacts as you can see here. Maybe my illustration itself is not as others a few like bits and pieces here, they're left out from some shadow layers. But now if I drag my cursor around, you see that I'm recalling only the parts that it was, the procreate can really grab onto my illustration at some containers. So I could just paint for instance, this section of the mountain, I could try to pink the pants of her character, the shirt, the hair, and so on, so forth.

So the more that you tweak this blood levels here, you can try to achieve, you can try to gather the section that you actually want in your illustration and change it to another color. So now, if we choose another color, you see the procreate is able to replace basically the color that we have here on our swatch to the color that we had before in our illustration. So it is a powerful tool, but I would say this is more of a preview where you can see for color will look nicer or better. And then I would actually advise you to hit cancel and then go into the proper layer and apply the color that you actually want just to keep things clean, because appropriate style really able to grab the edges of your illustration as best as possible. So you'll probably leave some, some artifacts. So just quickly showing you here if I were to just repaint the sky, but if I were to zoom in and look at the sun, you see that there is that edge that very similar to the sharpen effect at maximum, which is a, which is a weird effect.

It's something that you actually don't want to have your illustrations, especially if you're going to print them or if they're illustrations, they're going to be printed into bigger areas such as like outdoors and people can actually notice these little details. So let's just hit cancel here. And finally, I just want to show you guys the liquid by effect and what it can do. So this is just a quick, very, very quick sketch that I've made here. From photo. And the reason why liquify I just left it towards the end is because look of liquefies one of the most powerful tools in procreate if not the most powerful tool.

So here on this file here, we only have one layer, which is this sketch layer. And I think I was talking about liquify on a previous lesson, and what is the best way of using it and what is the best use case and how to use liquify. So in my opinion, liquify is really best used once you're, you're drawing portraits and within these portraits or character designs, you actually want to exaggerate features once you have a first rough sketch. So here at the bottom there, there are many many options that you can use with liquify. The first one just being push. You have the size of your brush, you have the distortion amount, the pressure on your pen or your Apple Pencil, and you also have the momentum and the momentum is related to your drag in the velocity of your drag.

For example, let's just keep things here more or less at the middle of everything. And let's just say that I want to increase the nose of this character or start even to distort this into more of a cartoonish form. So I could actually drag his face a little bit more, bring this mouth a little bit in just a bit. Gonna bring this more, maybe bring down here. And, actually, let's bring this in. And I'm just gonna do a couple examples here so you can see.

Bring the neck in. So now, all of a sudden, effect if I click here, reset, you'll see that The difference of what we had and what we were just tweaking, it was a really big difference. Another one that I would like to show you is the pinch. So same thing again, I'm just going to go into the nose, and I want to pinch this to be really, really tiny. I also want to use expand a really increased amount. You see here, the this little ease off the effect almost the animation, that is the momentum.

If I bring this to zero, you see there's no sliding, it's almost like a sliding thing that happens. After a click. I'm just going to bring this up again. And then when I do see it's like sliding and slow slowly coming to a stop. That is the momentum slider. So in fact, I highly encourage you to actually play with these sliders and see what each one of each one of these sliders does to the tool.

Now, just increasing things a bit here. And all of a sudden, we have a completely different version of this character. And lastly, I just want to show you this reconstruct and reconstruct is a brush that you can paint. And as the name says, brings things, brings things back into its original form. And it can also click Reset right here. So what other modes that we have here in liquify, we can twirl things to the right.

It's almost like a little tornado. We can twirl to the left. We can pinch as I was just showing you. We can expand shapes. We can turn things into a crystal and this one is pretty crazy. So you can see here, it's really creating these wiggly lines kind of crazy lines.

We can also go edge Like it really the forums, but it's kind of pushing things in. And finally, there is an adjustment, a bar here, which also bring brings things back to its original state by the amount of distortion. So thinking that whatever we just did here is 100%. If we go back to 50%, that is only half of the influence of all of these brushes onto our illustration. So, again, liquify is a really, really powerful tool because it allows illustrators and artists to create very different results from an initial rough sketch. And you can make those you can make cartoon illustrations, you can even completely change something that you had as a character designing to a completely new character by just using liquify.

So I believe that about covers for the adjustments later. Here on procreate so now let's take a look at adding text in procreate