In this blog post, let me show you how to use color drop in Procreate. The color drop tool in Procreate is a great way to quickly add color to enclosed shapes. It makes coloring easier and faster.
To ColorDrop, put your finger/Apple Pencil on the active color bubble. (Don’t hold it there for long though; otherwise the color will change to your previous color.)
Drag your finger across the canvas to the desired spot. You’ll see a colorful dot follow your finger. Drop the color by lifting your finger off of the screen. The color should drop and fill the enclosed space.
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Now, a few tips for ColorDropping:
1. Do it quickly
You don’t want to hold your finger on the active color too long, or else the color will change to the previous color. Also, you don’t want to hold your finger still for too long after you’ve dragged the color over the canvas. If you hold it still, the color will automatically ColorDrop. This happens because it is a step to changing the ColorDrop threshold. The threshold determines how well the color fills up a space. The last thing you want to do when ColorDropping is accidentally change the threshold so that it’s low. To learn about the ColorDrop threshold and why changing it could make ColorDrop work incorrectly, read this blog post.
2. ColorDrop into fully enclosed spaces
Make sure that you ColorDrop into enclosed spaces. Make sure there aren’t any holes. No matter how tiny the hole is, ColorDrop will still slide through it and fill things outside the shape. Sometimes the shape’s outline is so thin that ColorDrop slides past the outline.
3. Use a good brush
In my experience, using a brush that has transparent parts or is very thin could result in ColorDrop not recognizing the shape.
I like to use two brushes, the Everything Brush and the Outliner, for creating outlines to ColorDrop into. These work best because they leave no gaps in their brushstrokes. These two brushes are available for you to buy in the Products section of our store.
A brush that’s included with Procreate that also works well for ColorDropping is the Monoline brush. This brush is in the calligraphy section of the brush library.
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