Although this is a superb tutorial, it’s unfortunate that Procreate isn’t more optimised for this kind of work. I hope over time they introduce more quality of life features similar to Align, pathfinder, envelope distort, shape builder etc. That would really put this app into a league of its own
Ya there is alot that simpler apps do better. You would think they could do it on procreate. The sketchbook app is a perfect example. They have great tools and different pens and brushes and the app is so user friendly. I wish ProCreate had a similar tool set.
the easier thing to do is send it to photoshop, create a circle and then do the type on a path command. super easy and quick. procreate needs to add this feature, would love to not have to use any adobe programs at all.
This is waaaay too complicated for its own good. Also, by rasterizing, moving and having the letters turn a bit, we can spot a bit of blurriness, which definitely makes this process feel a tad underwhelming considering the amount of work. Hoping an upcoming update can clear this because if we can't have crisp letters, even rasterized, then what's the point?
@Calliope G. I agree, they focused on 3D when we really need better text options, vector drawing/paths, and save selections once a path has been made. It would make life wayyyy more easier, even if I had to pay a small fee for it I would.
Yes Simon, not being able to type on a path as a feature makes it more laborious task. Some people really only want to use Procreate exclusively, so this is a workaround for them. If you have other software though, such as Affinity or Adobe, they are the way to go for this particular task. Re the blurring of the letters - there may be a slight loss in crispness when rotating, but it shouldn’t be too bad. Make sure your interpolation setting is ‘Bicubic’. You can change this by selecting your text with the arrow tool and it’s the 2nd icon from the right in the menu bar. (It might say ‘Nearest’ or ‘Bilinear’ depending on what it’s currently set to). Also try to get the rotation right in one go rather than redoing too many times. This will also help. Here’s some more info: procreate.art/handbook/transform/transform-interpolate?section=11608
Thank you for this! It's really not that complicated of a process with practice and familiarity. I, too, hope that someday Procreate advances their text editing feature. But I think for now this works just as well! Thanks again!!
Oh, worth mentioning that if you just do the letters on by one, it's much more effective than rasterizing and clipping etc. Just make sure you have enough layers available before flattening and stuff haha!
Each time I need a tutorial, you appear. Your teaching style is exactly right for my learning style. You realistically consider how people actually think and see.
Okay so if you wanna do this with cursive text and have it attached the warp tool can be used with the circle template it’s a little janky but it works. Just finished my new logo. Would have never thought to use a guide till I saw this video 💕
absolutely insane that this program doesn't have a feature for curving text. what a long process this is to get curved text. might as well move your project to another editing software to add text. procreate HAS TO add this feature in an update soon.
I think I’ll just save my file and place it in a vector program like Affinity Designer and do it there - like I always used to between Photoshop and Illustrator.
Excellent tutorial. Exactly what I was looking for. I think I would export it to Photoshop for this part to finish my work. But it was something I needed ATM. Thanks so much.
I use this alternative app just for curved texts. It’s called phonto and it’s free. I wanted to see if procreate had this feature. But now i think I’m gonna stick with phonto. Great tutorial btw. Thanks alottt!
Hi! Thank you very much for your video, it helped me a lot. Where did you get that folder of shape brushes? Or did you create it yourself? I would like to have one like that, I do not like that procreate does not have a rule, I feel that it is much needed. Sorry if it's misspelled, I use a translator
Do I need the drawing tool to do this? Also, which app do I download in order to do this.? Thank you. This is all new to me even though I have had my iPad for going on three years.
Hi Evelyn. The app used for this tutorial is Procreate. If you wanted to achieve this 'text on a curved path' type effect, there are other apps that will do it a bit easier, such as Affinity Designer. It depends what you want to do
Hey Emily, There can be a slight loss in crispness when rotating, but it shouldn't be too bad. Make sure your interpolation setting is 'Bicubic'. You can change it by selecting your text with the arrow tool and it's the 2nd icon from the right in the menu bar. (It might say 'Nearest' or 'Bilinear' depending on what it's currently set to). Also try to get the rotation right in one go rather than redoing too many times. Here's some more info: @t
Hi Daye. There's may be a slight loss in crispness when rotating, but it shouldn't be too bad. Make sure your interpolation setting is 'Bicubic'. You can change it by selecting your text with the arrow tool and it's the 2nd icon from the right in the menu bar. (It might say 'Nearest' or 'Bilinear' depending on what it's currently set to). Also try to get the rotation right in one go rather than redoing too many times. This will also help. Here's some more info: procreate.art/handbook/transform/transform-interpolate?section=11608
Thanks for watching Arshika. Yes that's right. As I mentioned in the video a block capital letter is best for this method. And it is time consuming too unfortunately. But I guess it depends on the quality of the result you want to see. Trying to do the same by 'warping' the text using Procreate's warp tool ends up pixelated and distorted. Obviously, only do it if you need to! Hope that helps
Thanks for your feedback Honey Seals. It sounds like you've got a really good handle of using Procreate. Not everyone does and I try to help those that need instruction for each step. There's a load of other UAclips Channels with more advanced / fast paced tutorials - they might suit you better 👍
You are moving to fast!, And Procreate is not letting me move the letters it duplicated my letters after I used the squiggly line to move it out of they way. It won’t let me adjust the letters. So frustrating I am brand new to procreate . Why can’ t the just add a easy feature to do this. OMG!
Paid app and you have to do all this work to be able to get a design like that. No good . Nothing really special about this app compare to sketchbook wich is free . And also resolution is way better for doing tatto stencils.
There has to be an easier way, this is too much and takes way too long, plus this person is the worst teacher, everything she did could of been said in much less time, lags for absolutely no reason
I’ve been using procreate for over a year now and I didn’t know how to do this, I found the tutorial very easy to follow and only had to watch once to get the hang of it. Definitely play around with the app firstly so you get to know all the different tools
Just mess around with the app and definitely watch a different “beginners” video! es yon that go over the basics for ya. She was just a tad quick because it’s such a specific question, her audience is assumed to know their way around the app already :)
Thanks for watching and your feedback. The video is aimed at people who already have and use the app, and specifically want to align text to a path. Not really intended for anyone to purchase the app without knowing about it first! Apologies if the instructions were too fast, though it would probably feel that way if you're opening the app for the the first time. I have a lot of more 'beginner' style content on my website - ipadcalligraphy.com/blog
Although this is a superb tutorial, it’s unfortunate that Procreate isn’t more optimised for this kind of work. I hope over time they introduce more quality of life features similar to Align, pathfinder, envelope distort, shape builder etc. That would really put this app into a league of its own
This is so labor intensive 😳 Procreate should think about updating with a feature that allows you to do this easier...
@David Sierra what apps do this?
I agree! Other programs auto-curve the letters around the circle!
Not that difficult
Seriously letter by letter 🤦♀️
Ya there is alot that simpler apps do better. You would think they could do it on procreate. The sketchbook app is a perfect example. They have great tools and different pens and brushes and the app is so user friendly.
I wish ProCreate had a similar tool set.
the easier thing to do is send it to photoshop, create a circle and then do the type on a path command. super easy and quick. procreate needs to add this feature, would love to not have to use any adobe programs at all.
Inkscape is amazing
This is waaaay too complicated for its own good. Also, by rasterizing, moving and having the letters turn a bit, we can spot a bit of blurriness, which definitely makes this process feel a tad underwhelming considering the amount of work. Hoping an upcoming update can clear this because if we can't have crisp letters, even rasterized, then what's the point?
@Calliope G. I agree, they focused on 3D when we really need better text options, vector drawing/paths, and save selections once a path has been made. It would make life wayyyy more easier, even if I had to pay a small fee for it I would.
exactly. wake up, procreate team!
Yes Simon, not being able to type on a path as a feature makes it more laborious task. Some people really only want to use Procreate exclusively, so this is a workaround for them. If you have other software though, such as Affinity or Adobe, they are the way to go for this particular task. Re the blurring of the letters - there may be a slight loss in crispness when rotating, but it shouldn’t be too bad. Make sure your interpolation setting is ‘Bicubic’. You can change this by selecting your text with the arrow tool and it’s the 2nd icon from the right in the menu bar. (It might say ‘Nearest’ or ‘Bilinear’ depending on what it’s currently set to). Also try to get the rotation right in one go rather than redoing too many times. This will also help.
Here’s some more info:
procreate.art/handbook/transform/transform-interpolate?section=11608
You can turn on a "perspective" radial drawing guide and drop it in the middle of your circle which will help aligning those letters a lot.
Elaborate
That's a great tip, thank you
I would gladly pay for a text upgrade. Just with all the nice text options like pathfinder and such.
Thank you for this! It's really not that complicated of a process with practice and familiarity. I, too, hope that someday Procreate advances their text editing feature. But I think for now this works just as well! Thanks again!!
Oh, worth mentioning that if you just do the letters on by one, it's much more effective than rasterizing and clipping etc. Just make sure you have enough layers available before flattening and stuff haha!
This took me a little while, but was worth the effort. Thank you so much for the great tutorial!
So glad you enjoyed it Ahna. Thank you 😊
Love this! Very helpful for me! Thanks. 🥰
this was SO SO SO SO SO helpful!! Thank you! Loved the pace you spoke at and everything!!!
Each time I need a tutorial, you appear. Your teaching style is exactly right for my learning style. You realistically consider how people actually think and see.
Oh wow, thank you Wally. That's such a nice comment and you've made my day 😀 So glad it's helpful
Okay so if you wanna do this with cursive text and have it attached the warp tool can be used with the circle template it’s a little janky but it works. Just finished my new logo. Would have never thought to use a guide till I saw this video 💕
absolutely insane that this program doesn't have a feature for curving text. what a long process this is to get curved text. might as well move your project to another editing software to add text.
procreate HAS TO add this feature in an update soon.
I find this distorts the text too much, but it's certainly worth a shot!
Go into "Warp" = Advanced Mesh" - That's how you actually do it
Thank you so much for the tutorial I really appreciate your effort
Thanks for watching and for your lovely comment! 😃
I think I’ll just save my file and place it in a vector program like Affinity Designer and do it there - like I always used to between Photoshop and Illustrator.
Thank you so much for the video. I learned a lot and it’s worth watching it ❤️
You're so welcome! 🙏
Excellent tutorial. Exactly what I was looking for. I think I would export it to Photoshop for this part to finish my work. But it was something I needed ATM. Thanks so much.
So glad it was helpful!
How did I not think of this?! Thank you for the helpful video!
I use this alternative app just for curved texts. It’s called phonto and it’s free. I wanted to see if procreate had this feature. But now i think I’m gonna stick with phonto. Great tutorial btw. Thanks alottt!
Really helpful, thank you. But, yes, I do hope Procreate can do something with this.
Hi! Thank you very much for your video, it helped me a lot. Where did you get that folder of shape brushes? Or did you create it yourself? I would like to have one like that, I do not like that procreate does not have a rule, I feel that it is much needed. Sorry if it's misspelled, I use a translator
@iPad Calligraphy thank you!!!!
Hey Romina, thanks for watching. The shape brushes are custom brushes of mine. They are available here - ipadcalligraphy.com/product/ornament-brushes/
Thank you so much for this video !!! Learned a lot 😍
You're so welcome, thanks for watching
Love the video 💕
great. i will try this out. Thank you.
SO helpful, Thankyou!!
You're welcome Molly, thanks for watching!
Muchas gracias por el video 🙌
Thank you that was very helpful.
Glad to hear it helped, you're welcome!
Thank you ! Very helpful .
I would have never thought of this, thanks
Thank you, advice, show each step calmly and speak slower, not everyone is as familiar as you are with procreate
Really helpful thank you
Having a hard time trying to find a tutorial on arched text. Can you do one of those?
Freaking awesomeeee just perfect! Thank you so much
so glad to hear that Tammy. Thanks for watching 😃
I did this too… thought there is way auto follow the curve
good effort, thank for sharing
Do I need the drawing tool to do this? Also, which app do I download in order to do this.? Thank you. This is all new to me even though I have had my iPad for going on three years.
Hi Evelyn. The app used for this tutorial is Procreate. If you wanted to achieve this 'text on a curved path' type effect, there are other apps that will do it a bit easier, such as Affinity Designer. It depends what you want to do
Why when I try to recreate this my letters get all pixilated and rough around the edges? Is there something I’m going wrong in setting or something?
This happens to me very often, how do I stop this?
Hey Emily, There can be a slight loss in crispness when rotating, but it shouldn't be too bad. Make sure your interpolation setting is 'Bicubic'. You can change it by selecting your text with the arrow tool and it's the 2nd icon from the right in the menu bar. (It might say 'Nearest' or 'Bilinear' depending on what it's currently set to). Also try to get the rotation right in one go rather than redoing too many times.
Here's some more info:
@t
Thanks for the helpful video!!
I’ve been wanted to edit something like this. But when I move my text it became blurry. Does it happen while you’re editing this?
iPad Calligraphy thank you so much! This is so helpful. Hopefully soon I will be able to understand all its features.
Hi Daye. There's may be a slight loss in crispness when rotating, but it shouldn't be too bad. Make sure your interpolation setting is 'Bicubic'. You can change it by selecting your text with the arrow tool and it's the 2nd icon from the right in the menu bar. (It might say 'Nearest' or 'Bilinear' depending on what it's currently set to). Also try to get the rotation right in one go rather than redoing too many times. This will also help.
Here's some more info:
procreate.art/handbook/transform/transform-interpolate?section=11608
wish we could curve text like illustrator in procreate :(
Just download a clock and lay it over. Then put the letters where the marks are.
How do I get the shapes?
She’s just trying to help no need to be harsh with her. Keep doing your thing queen
Has anyone experienced random font names being blank in their fonts list?
Thank you very much!!!
How come even tho I rasterize the size still ends up changing around as I attempt to move the letter?
Thank you very much u rock!
Hi I’m new here! How do we get the shapes and ornament set?
@iPad Calligraphy thank you !!
Hi Vanessa, and welcome! The shapes and ornaments set is available here - ipadcalligraphy.com/product/ornament-brushes/
Wooow super cool, thank you so much!
Thank you!
Procreate get on a fix. This is ridiculous. But thanks for showing us how.
Excellent 🔥💯🔥
It’s like Rebel Wilson is explaining this to me. 🤣😍
I can’t un hear it anymore lmao
This will be stuck in my head forever!
haha!
or you can use photoshop to do this part too :) If someone happens to have
I want to cry, I’ve been working on my piece for 14 hours straight AND NOW I’VE REALIZED THIS FEATURE ISNT BUILT INNNN?!?😭😭😭😭😭
It's hardway manually cut one by one
Can’t wait to give this a try
Awesome Deborah. I'd love to see how you get on. I'm @nicolemauloni on insta if you decide to share 😀
please god, procreate people, make text on a path a standard feature. My love hate relationship with procreate is real.
It works well with capital letters but won't look this neat with cursive or script writing. Not to mention, it's way time consuming
Thanks for watching Arshika. Yes that's right. As I mentioned in the video a block capital letter is best for this method. And it is time consuming too unfortunately. But I guess it depends on the quality of the result you want to see. Trying to do the same by 'warping' the text using Procreate's warp tool ends up pixelated and distorted. Obviously, only do it if you need to! Hope that helps
👌🏾🙏🏾
I can't seem to move the letters without them resizing... Is there a way so keep them uniform while moving them around?
Lisa Reader when you rotating the text, press “uniform” button so the text doesn’t resizing. hope this helps
This is way too much work just to curve letters onto an arch. Procreate really needs to do something about this... And a few other things
Thank you
Thank you Queen
How do I find your Shapes brushes
Hi Cee, the shape & ornament brushes are available here - ipadcalligraphy.com/product/ornament-brushes/
Just use Warp and then Advance Mesh, much much easier maaan!
I find that method massively distorts the text
Shortcut. Don’t watch. Just rasterize the text and drag each letter around a circle shape
Thanks for your feedback Honey Seals. It sounds like you've got a really good handle of using Procreate. Not everyone does and I try to help those that need instruction for each step. There's a load of other UAclips Channels with more advanced / fast paced tutorials - they might suit you better 👍
Nightmare not one programe does this easily. I tried so many. All crap. Affinity is a nightmare.
The option to curve text is on Word ffs! How is it not on Procreate?!
Canva photo app can do similar thing.
You are moving to fast!, And Procreate is not letting me move the letters it duplicated my letters after I used the squiggly line to move it out of they way. It won’t let me adjust the letters. So frustrating I am brand new to procreate . Why can’ t the just add a easy feature to do this. OMG!
There must be an easier way. Are you joking???
This video is 2 years old and Procreate still doesn’t have this in the app.
This should be built in
Why is this not a feature :/
Use afinity designer for text work especially if you are using default fonts. It has a built in feature for text on a path...
Great suggestion for those that have it. Thanks Brandon
Illustrator much easy way
What about warp text?? I think that could work too right??
Yes, a lot of people are commenting that option. I've tried this though and it distorts the text too much
I wish you would get to the point, good video tho
Thanks for the feedback Jack.
Paid app and you have to do all this work to be able to get a design like that. No good . Nothing really special about this app compare to sketchbook wich is free . And also resolution is way better for doing tatto stencils.
ok so this is not for beginners at all!!
There has to be an easier way, this is too much and takes way too long, plus this person is the worst teacher, everything she did could of been said in much less time, lags for absolutely no reason
Thanks for your feedback. Pretty harsh. You are welcome to move on and watch something else.
Wow I just downloaded this $10 app just to watch this video and not know what the heck she’s talking about. Urghhhh was this video fast for u guys?
I’ve been using procreate for over a year now and I didn’t know how to do this, I found the tutorial very easy to follow and only had to watch once to get the hang of it.
Definitely play around with the app firstly so you get to know all the different tools
This is probably tricky if you’re still new. There’s a bit of a learning curve!
Just mess around with the app and definitely watch a different “beginners” video! es yon that go over the basics for ya. She was just a tad quick because it’s such a specific question, her audience is assumed to know their way around the app already :)
iPad Calligraphy you’re so sweet! I’m definitely going to take a look and I’m going to hit the bell so I can get updates on your future videos. 👍
Thanks for watching and your feedback. The video is aimed at people who already have and use the app, and specifically want to align text to a path. Not really intended for anyone to purchase the app without knowing about it first! Apologies if the instructions were too fast, though it would probably feel that way if you're opening the app for the the first time. I have a lot of more 'beginner' style content on my website - ipadcalligraphy.com/blog