For this lesson, let's take a look at the move tool in selection tool in procreate. So for this lesson right here, I've prepared a file with three layers. On each layer I have one of these circles, where each circle has a semi circle with a different color. And that is so I can show you the different options we can achieve using the move and the selection tool. So let's actually start with layer one. So once they select my move tool, you see the procreate creates a bounding box.

And that bounding box is basically telling us what, what's pertaining to our layer one. So whenever it click on with the move tool, it automatically automatically select everything pertaining to that layer. So what I mean by that is that I can make a copy of the circle and just drag it Round all the way here, for example, merge the two layers. And now when I click on the move tool, my bounding box has now expanded to encompass these two pink circles, or semi pink circles. So procreates just telling us whenever we click on the move tool on each layer, what's actually pertaining to that layer. And you can also see a little thumbnail preview of the contents of each layer here in the Layers panel.

So let me just go back before the merge back into our original state. And let's go back into the move tool. So again, whenever I hit the little arrow here in the top right, we see this little box in procreate give us some options here as well at the bottom. So the very first one is the free form tool. And usually I do believe the magnetics is turned on. So what's the freeform tool?

Well, basically, the free form allows you to scale up in transform your layer, without really respecting the dimensions the locked proportions of your shape. In this case, since he was a circle, we really don't have this circle anymore. Now it looks like an ellipse. So one thing to keep in mind is that if you're trying to scale up or scale down your object using the freeform tool, but with magnetics on, you will actually get proportional scaling. And that is because procreate is actually snapping to the guides that magnetics actually offers you. And those guides are basically the agonal guide, a vertical guide, and a horizontal guide.

And then all of the 15 degrees increments of these of these angles. So just bear in mind that if you actually want to have the freedom to fully transform your shape, just turn off magnetics. And now you'll be able to really scale up your element, not really respecting the proportional scaling that you had in the first place. So now let's go back here and look at the other options still in the freeform tool, we can flip layers horizontally, we can also flip them vertically, we can rotate a layer or an element 45 decrease. And we can also hold on to this green Bezier right here, and we can rotate it freely, because we don't have magnetics on at the moment, but if I turn it on, it will rotate with a 15 degree angle, as you can see, so sometimes you may actually want to have a 15 degree angle to just rotate on elements just a little bit.

But if you're looking to rotate about 45 degrees, you can also hit this little button right here. Let's go back to straight up. And you can also ask for this element to be scaled up to the size of the canvas. So all you have to do is click canvas. Canvas and procreate will try its best to scale up this pixel art into the size of the canvas. The reason why I'm saying this pixelated art, it's because procreate really doesn't work with as a vector based program, even even though it does have quick shape and it does look like your, for a little while you're working with a vector program, the end result of procreate is always a pixel pixels really onto a canvas.

So whenever you're scaling up your objects, you're always going to get aliasing by having to scale up your objects that much. So even though procreate also gives you a few options here, these are the three options of scaling. You can scale your your pixels, by your nearest neighbor, by linear or by cubic. None of them to be completely honest, will give you a perfect perfect chart result. I actually do prefer to keep it on nearest neighbor and we don't get into too much into it, you can also research these methods and find the one that works best for for you. Just continuing here, you can also just make any modifications and then hit reset, and it will reset your shape to the previous position just before you've started to make changes.

So that about covers for free form. And now let's take a look at uniform. So uniform scaling. As the name says it's really keeping the proportions of your shape. So independently of what busier you're actually clicking, it's always respecting the proportional scaling off your original shape. And then here at the bottom, you pretty much have the same options as free for moving on this Stuart, this store is one where then you have the ability to move these busier lines more freely.

So you can create skews and angles Most, in a way you would try to put that shape into now some kind of a perspective. Or you can try to fake perspective here by using this tool. And you can also turn off magnetics. And as you can see now you're not really even trying to snap these behaviors on to the guidelines, and you can further distort your circle. And finally, the warp option here for the move tool allows you to actually control all the points they see in this mesh right here. So here we have about 16 points, I believe, we have four on each side, and then we have another four points here inside of this square.

And you have like a lot of freedom here to actually distort your object and create very unexpected results that you can then hit the arrow key once again and see the your new created shape. And this option right here is something that a lot of uses. races, illustrators use whenever they're making illustrations there are more like portraits for example, and not necessarily realistic. But those exaggerated proportion, portraits kind of like cartoonish portraits. It is a great example where you're like expanding the features. So you could actually start drawing a portrait of someone in a more realistic form.

And then still in this sketch mode, you can like enhance noses years or like the eyes of a character, and you can create some really unexpected results. And that's something that I want to show you on furniture lesson, when we're going to be talking about the liquify tool, so I'm going to mix some of the usage of the liquify option with the warp option here on the move tool. So now that we've seen the move tool, let's talk about the selection tool. So we're still here on layer two, I'm just going to click the selection mode. And the first one from the get go that we get is the freehand slide. So freehand selection basically basically allows you to draw any shape that you wish to by just drawing on your canvas.

And as you can see, it's automatically on an ad mode. Meaning that anytime you keep drawing onto your canvas, you're adding more and more selections to your first original one. And just keep in mind that even though I've made all these selections here on the left side, because we are still only selected with layer two here, once they hit the move tool, all these selections on the left side, the only part that really touched the image on layer two was this little section here on our dark blue part of the the circle. So you really have to know which layer you're actually working with and if those selections are actually going to affect your layer. So let's go back into the freehand mode and as you can see can draw any kind of selection. And keep in mind that whatever join you selection, it always starts from your beginning and end point, which is then displayed by this little gray dot right here.

So let me just restart our selection. Again, I'm just going to make a selection right here. And once you make selection here appropriate, you're also greeted with a few options here at the bottom. The first one is that we can click Add, and that basically confirms that selection. And now we have our first mask or area that we want to affect either by transforming moving around copy cutting into a new layer, and it's also letting us know here with this striped texture, that this is not the area that we will affect or want to affect in layer two. So again, if I click the move tool, you see that I'm only affecting from the mask mask that I drew only this section on The dark blue circle.

So now let's reset. Once again, I'm just going to draw a mask. I'm going to click Add. But now we have the option invert, and inverts basically inverting the mask telling us that we do not want to affect this area, but rather all the areas that are outside of our initial selection. And that pertaining to layer two, if I click the move tool, it's going to affect everything that was basically to the left, I'm sorry, to the right of our selection. So again, I'm just going to reset or mask, I'm going to click Add.

And now if I click Duplicate, it basically took our selection that we just made and copy that selection into a new layer. Once again, let's make another freehand selection, hit Add. If I click feather, it's not going to give me a slider and with that slider, I'm able to create a feathered slide And what that means actually a feather selection is a selection that around the edges of that selection. Once you click feather, it really generates some kind of a gradient from pure opacity to zero opacity, or full transparency. And as you can see here, as I'm dragging, it started to feathered my selection from about this point all the way there and to the right. And when I look at my layers, this feather selection initially, it doesn't really create a new layer, but rather just works within your original layer.

And as I've dragged away this elements that I had just selected, you see that he pushed these pixels out, and you see the little gradient happening here on the right side in on our original circle. It actually removed these pixels from the left side of our original circle. So basically, I'm dragging away picks With a feathered selection and finally, just making a new selection here, whenever it could click Clear, it really just clears my selection. So now let's take a look at other modes that the Select tool has. We have the automatic selection, which basically means that if I click on a certain color, it makes a selection of that color. And it's also additive, just like the freehand selection, meaning that if I click on automatic, and it just select the blue here, and I move away, he tries to make the best selection as possible.

That's what procreate tries to make. But as you can see, most of the time leaves a few artifacts behind and if I have my selection here, automatic and if I click on the blue, and then click on the yellow color, it's kind of uses as a visual cue the invert mode. telling you that you've select these two sides. You know, if I click move, it's trying to move both sides of the circle. And it's leaving that little artifact behind because procreates really trying to calculate as best as possible what you wanted to move based on pixel approximation or or like color approximation. So, let's go back into selection.

And basically all of the features that I've just said, which we can invert, we can duplicate into a new layer, we can do basically the same things as the freehand selection, we can also do in an automatic selection. Then finally, as a couple of different modes we can use to select things we can use the famous rectangle, which does help, especially if you're trying to, to you know enclose a certain area and you don't really use need to use the freehand mode and you can also Have the ellipse mode off selection. So, that about covers our Move Tool and our selection tool in procreate. So for the next lesson, let's take a look at the adjustments menu.