Procreate Tutorial: How to Add a Metallic Texture Overlay
If you’ve always wanted to do more with Procreate, learning how to overlay textures will be a a useful skill to add to your repertoire. This is what I’m going to teach you to do today. You will learn how to insert an overlay texture in Procreate on iPad to instantly glam up your work!
STEP 1
Open up a blank document and draw some basic shapes. I’m going with flowers here but any shape is fine. You can also open up a recent piece of work if you’d like. We are going to use these shapes to test out the metallic overlay effect.
STEP 2
Add a new layer on top of your current one and tap on the new layer to reveal the panel of options. Tap on clipping mask. The tick by the side of the option shows you that it has been selected. Now that the clipping mask has been selected, what it actually does is mark out all the shapes on the layer below so that whatever happens on the clipping mask layer will appear directly INSIDE the shapes on the layer below.
STEP 3
To insert a texture, tap on the wrench tool on the top left hand corner and insert a photo. Prior to this, please go online to search for a royalty-free metallic texture or any texture you want and save it to your photos album first. Once the texture is inserted, you can see that it actually covers the flower shapes without affecting the background.
As you can see from the images above, once I have inserted the texture, you can adjust the size of the texture to cover all the flowers or only some. To adjust the size, click on the pointer icon on the toolbar on top and choose “uniform” as seen on the toolbar that has appeared on the bottom. This will ensure that the texture shape can be adjusted uniformly as a whole without losing it’s shape.
I have opted to cover all the flowers with my metallic texture. If you want it to cover all the flowers, just adjust it to ensure that the entire canvas is covered. If you want it to only cover certain flowers, one way to do it is to use the eraser tool ( third icon on the top right hand corner of toolbar ) to erase the parts you don’t want.
STEP 4
This last step is just to show you that if you toggle the little ticks in the checkboxes next to the layers itself, you can switch on or off that layer so that it’s not visible on the canvas. That is how you can make use of the clipping mask to overlay different textures or patterns into the shapes without affecting the background!
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