Fast Color by Numbers in Procreate

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1. 00:00 Want to do a color by number without spending a lot of time? I'll show you how.
2. 00:03 You've probably seen people outlining shapes and color dropping. Sometimes you just don't have time for it.
3. 00:10 So I'm going to show you step-by-step how to do it quickly using this design by Simply Creative Colors.
4. 00:16 I deleted all of the folders that come with the download except the difficulty level I want to use.
5. 00:20 I also deleted the PDF and SVG folders because we won't need them.
6. 00:26 First, go into color reference, open the color grid, and save as image. We'll use this later.
7. 00:31 Go back and go into the PNG folder. Open the gray number version in Procreate.
8. 00:38 Then select the wrench and insert a file. This time, select the outline version.
9. 00:46 Go back to the wrench and go into canvas. Turn on reference, image, and import the palette file we saved earlier.
10. 00:55 In layers, the top layer is outline, and the layer below is numbered. I like to rename them so they're clear.
11. 01:02 Add a new layer between these. This is the layer we'll actually be coloring on.
12. 01:07 Double-tap the outline layer and set it to reference.
13. 01:10 Now click the letter N on the right of the outline layer and set it to multiply.
14. 01:15 With the layer on multiply, you can now see the numbers again. Open layers and make sure you're on the layer between outline and numbered. We're ready to start coloring.
15. 01:23 In the reference image, find the color you want to use and hold down on it to choose it.
16. 01:30 Because we have a reference layer above the layer we're on, we can just color drop and it will stay within the lines.
17. 01:36 Keep picking color and dropping color to fill in the artwork.
18. 01:40 This method lets you get color down quickly. You can always go back and smooth things out or do any clean up if necessary.
19. 01:47 You may notice some locations where the lines don't perfectly overlap. You can correct that by adjusting the numbered layer, but I don't normally worry about it because it doesn't affect anything.
20. 02:01 Keep color dropping until you have the entire canvas painted.
21. 02:05 Just turn off your outline layer, and you just did a color by number in a fraction of the time.
22. 02:11 This method only works for color by number that provide a numbered version and an outline-only version. See my bio to get hundreds of designs you can use to color this way.

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