ladyscrapalot

Oh I didn’t know there was a handbook. I’ll have to check it out. I’ve discovered that I learn better visually, where I can see how it’s done. As for the memory stick it’s called iXpand flash drive for iPhone, iPad and computer. I bought the 32 GB on Amazon. I think it will hold a lot. You can add music files and video files as well. One end fits into the USB port of your computer. The other end fits into you iPad or iPhone. I’ve been having fun playing around with it and hopefully, maybe get my mojo to visit me. 😉

Oh boy, I’m a happy camper!!! I found some great basic tutorials on how to use Procreate. I discovered blending modes and clipping masks. So for sure you can digi scrap on an iPad with Procreate. I also found a memory stick to store some of my supplies for when I don’t have wifi. I want to learn how to write pretty letters and things but that will take A LOT of practice (and time).

I'll have to work up to that! Thank you!!

eh, I can't take the credit. Browsing Pinterest and getting lucky! Actually though, it's how I thought it could be done. I learned it a llloonngg time ago in ps but with an added step that you can't do in Procreate but it's good enough for me.

Found a way to make drop shadows. Not as easy as clicking on the styles button in PS but not difficult to do.

To bring in any items in to your layout will depend on were you keep them. I have my supplies and the photo in dropbox. (Same with iCloud) So to find what I want I click on insert a file. If its in your camera roll you would click insert a photo. To move an item you have to first open the layers menu (2 squares top right) highlight the layer you want to move. Next click on the arrow at the top on the left and it will put marching ants around your item. The will be blue dots so you can resize it and one green dot to rotate it. One thing to note and remember; at the bottom there’s 2 rows of options. When resizing click on the word uniform if you want to keep the same proportions. The only way I found to close out the bounding box is to click on the 2 squares for the layers menu. Hope this makes sense. I’m excited to experiment some more. Let me know if you have any other questions.

Lastly to get to the menu for each layer you touch and hold on the layer and that menu will pop out. There are also other tools along the top but I didn’t take any screen shot of those.

In this second photo you can see my different layers. You can reach them by clicking on the two squares in the upper right hand corner. You can rename your layers, lock them or even move the to he front or back of the canvas.

Okay let’s see if I can show you how it works. I did this while I was at Starbucks. As I said I didn’t have a lot to choose from. You can do clipping masks but I don’t think you can add drop shadows. Perhaps there is a work around. Sorry if my photos are too big. The first photo is the workspace after I finished a quick LO. If you’re already familiar with Procreate then you start with a new canvas. You can move your canvas around or enlarge it. I just moved it over so I could still see it with the layers open.

So today I decided to splurge for my bday and bought Procreate. And you absolutely can digi scrap with it. I’m still getting the hang of it. I currently don’t have a lot of supplies in my dropbox but enough to give it ago. I’m going to have to play around with it more and maybe search from some basic tutorials. My next step is to find a way to have access to some of my supplies when I’m offline. I ordered a memory stick that should be compatible with iPads and iPhones. 🤞🏻🤞🏻 When Larisa and I are on our cruise we have a couple of days at sea. So if it works I can do a few simple LOs. I like to share what I learn in case someone is trying to figure out the same thing I am.

No you don’t have to pay to upgrade to 5. I don’t use my planner much. I’m not hardly scraping much right now. 😞 I miss it. The planner helps a little with creativity as does the atcs. I think i may have figured out how to scrap on my ipad but have had a chance to check it out.

The lastest update to GN5 fixed the problem of text going behind stickers! For me it’s still runs a little slow when I first open my planner but I can work with it. My planner doesn’t have a lot in but I like how it works for me.