Okay, so now that you have your canvas size selected, let's go through the tools. This is an Apple Pencil, and it's a lovely two because it reacts to pressure and angle. But unfortunately, it only works on iPad Pro. So if you have an older version of iPad, you're left with regular styluses or using your finger. Let me show you what I mean about reacting to pressure. So if I press harder, it will give me a thicker line.
If I press light, I will get a center line like that. So that's really lovely, especially if you're doing hand lettering. It also reacts to angle so if I'm writing in this direction, it will give me a really thick line. However, if I hold it more upright, the line is much thinner. Although the pressure was the same. You can use Your finger or a regular stylist, like this one from bamboo.
So these boats work just fine. If you don't have iPad Pro, so don't worry. then the rest is the same regardless what kind of iPad you have. So up here you have your basic tools. First one is the brush selection. And here you have different set of brushes, some for inking, calligraphy, painting, and so on.
So I recommend that you go through them and test them out, see what kind of what kind of line they create. And once you've tried them out and you have figured out which ones are your favorite, you can create your own set of favorites like I have here. So then it's really cool. To find your favorite brushes, and you do that by by pressing down here like that, so you get a new set, click on that you can name it. I will call mine a skill share. And then I can go and find my favorite precious and just drag and drop them to the new location.
They will still stay in their original location but you will also have them in your new set. So that's a nice way to find your favorite brushes. Then you will find exactly the same brushes under the smudge tool or under the eraser, so you can erase with the same look and feel as you were drawing. Next up is the Layers panel. So here you add your layers and work with them. I'm going to tell you a little bit more later but I'll here just quickly go through how you create them.
So you click on the plus sign, you get a new layer. If you want to name them, you tap it twice, and you get a rename option. All right, this call it text. And then so you can create as many as you like. If you want to delete them, if you've accidentally created too many of you to swipe left and click Delete, or if you have made one for guidelines for example, and then at the end, you don't need it. Just swipe left and hit Delete.
So very simple. Then, finally, here is the color picker, where you will find three different ways to choose to color plus your past So here are all the palettes that I have created. And if you want to create a blank new one, you just click the plus sign, and you will get a new palette. You can name it if you like. I'll call mine test, and then you can start filling it up. So you select colors just by clicking on the square.
So now it added this color that I had selected previously. If I want to select new ones, I'll go here to the disk, and I can select a hue over here, and then in the inner circle, I can choose to saturation and lightness. And then when I'm happy, I can just add it to my palette. You can do the same thing here under classic option. Once again, here's your huge And here's your saturation and your brightness like that. Here in the value options, you can fill in exact RGB codes if you're looking for a particular color and you know the code, or Same goes for hexadecimal or the HSP code, so just fill them in and or you can use the sliders here as here as well.
But it might be easier to do that in the classic section. And then if you want to delete any of your colors, you can go to any of the options value classic or disk except the palettes and you just tap and hold and you get the Delete option. And if you want to delete from some other palette, you first need to set it as your default like that and then you can go to value for example and delete the unnecessary ones like that. Okay, so now I have my brush pen, and if I want to make it bigger I go here. This is where you choose the size. Now it's pretty thick.
It's kind of funny looking. And here you choose the opacity like that. Also, you'll find the undo button here. So you can delete and your redo button as well. So that's all for the basics. Next, I will go through some of my favorite tricks.