I have 3 of your brush sets Lisa and I just wanted to say, the brushes and your tips and tutorials are so appreciated! Without the tutorials I’m not using the brushes or procreate to it’s fullest potential so bless you and please keep the “extra” tutes and tips coming…..they are so inspiring and really make me want to practice and just muck around more! Cheers!
Aw!! Thank you so much! Your comment made my day!! I'm super happy you find the tutorials helpful!! My goal is to try and kick start your drawing process because I know when buying new brushes it takes a while before you fully "understand" what they can do. I'm definitely planning on doing more tuts in the near future 😊 Happy creating!
Gahhhhh thanks sooo much Lisa! I was just going crazy trying to do the backing for a really complex watercolour painting, and selecting around it, inversing it, and filling the selection just wasn't working (too many little "bits" that escaped the selection leaving white pixels along the edge or other such shenanigans). Your method was so much faster and worked perfectly, thank youuuuu! ❤ Dana
Thank you so much Lisa!!! this skill is definitely what I looked for!! I bought your Aqua brush but w/o knowing this I wasn't able to use it perfectly but did difficult way. (3:00) Thanks again!
Lisa, I've tried this and followed step by step. All is well until the last step when I cut. My art disappears along with the background. Can you tell me what I may be doing wrong?
Hi Mayra, You may have accidentally flattened all your layers and not left your "selection" layer to make the selection, or perhaps you are selecting the entire artwork before deleting the background, ie. you're choosing the artwork layer to make a selection instead of the black selection layer you created. It's a bit tricky to fully understand where you may have gone wrong without seeing your file or having more detail. You are more than welcome to send me an email of some screenshots or screen recording to help@lisaglanz.com so I can get a better idea of where you might be going wrong, I'd be happy to help further!
@@Lisaglanz Thank you. I did it finally, but it wasn't straight forward. I don't know if I can duplicate what I did again. If I continue to have trouble, I will send you some screenshots. I'm normally pretty savvy with software, but I've always had issues with selections in Photoshop, so I'm not surprised :)
It was also happening with me, i followed each n every step then whenever I tried to cut my colorful layer, it suddenly disappeared and i left with the black layer. Then after a number of tries, i figured the mistake. It happened when i tried to invert my black layer, the “color fill” option in that bar, was already previously selected, which was causing the problem in selecting the black layer. I just unselect the color fill option in the selection bar, and finally succeeded 😅
Hi there! You can apply the same process for Adobe Photoshop as well. The technique is applicable for digital watercolour painting which is mentioned in the title 😊
Hi Catherine, You will need the silhouette shape of your illustration, unfortunately once flattened with a background Procreate will see the entire area and not be able to create a selection from your isolated illustration. You'll need to etch out your illustration if you don't have a layered version. Hope that helps!
Hello Dear Lisa. Can u tel me which Of ur Paper background u USD for drawing all the tutorial watercolour Clips¿ i bought ur Aqua Real pack and im totally in love with tchem.. but i dont know wiat kind Of Paper i just choose. Nów im drawing on the Candy Floss
Hi Klaudia, Thank you so much for your purchase, it's much appreciated! So glad you are enjoying them! I usually use the Chiffon Canvas because I particularly like the subtle paper texture of that canvas. Hope that helps! If you have any other questions at all, please don't hesitate to let me know.
I am new at trying to have my watercolors printed. Rather than the one sharp image you have hear, I have alot of background glazes, tiny spatters etc...yet I need to eliminate the actual "white" unpainted paper so that my notecards don't have a square edge of a background from the photo...I hope that makes sense? I have photoshop elements. Any help much appreciated!!
Hi Cindy, I haven't tried this method in Adobe Photoshop or Elements, but I'm assuming the same method would apply if you created the watercolour paintings in layers in Elements. If however you are working with a scan of your painting, then unfortunately I only know of the laborious method of creating an etch path or removing the background with the eraser tool. It's a method I used when I prepared my traditional watercolour paintings to sell. It's tedious! But gets the job done.
Hi Chrystèle, you should be able to undo any error you made in Procreate. The great feature about Procreate is it has many undo's! It's also very important to make a copy of your original drawing, you always want to keep the layered version as your original and only flattened a duplicate. If you made an error and can't undo for any reason, you can then go ahead and make a new duplicate of your original to start again. If you don't want to use your fingers to pinch the layers together to merge, you can also select them all at once by swiping right on all of the ones you want to select, then Group them, then flatten the Group. Hope that helps!
You can follow the same steps I used in Procreate. Your artwork of course needs to be on a separate layer so that you can create the selection as shown in the video.
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Thank you, I searched for so long for a good way to save my illustrations with just a little part of my canva. 🎉
Yay! Glad I could help! 🤗
I have 3 of your brush sets Lisa and I just wanted to say, the brushes and your tips and tutorials are so appreciated! Without the tutorials I’m not using the brushes or procreate to it’s fullest potential so bless you and please keep the “extra” tutes and tips coming…..they are so inspiring and really make me want to practice and just muck around more! Cheers!
Aw!! Thank you so much! Your comment made my day!! I'm super happy you find the tutorials helpful!! My goal is to try and kick start your drawing process because I know when buying new brushes it takes a while before you fully "understand" what they can do. I'm definitely planning on doing more tuts in the near future 😊 Happy creating!
Hi Lisa, this is so helpful! Thank you so much for sharing! This makes our workflow so much easier.
Fantastic!! Super happy it was helpful xx
Thank u, I was super happy when it worked out!😊
Fantastic! So glad it was helpful to you 😊
Amazing tutorials, I’m enjoying your brushes so much ❤️
Thanks so much 😊 Super happy you're enjoying the brushes!!
I’ve been wondering how to do this and I’m so happy that I discovered this video 💗
Yay!! So glad it was helpful 😊
Thank you Lisa!! I purchased just about all your brushes. I can't wait to learn from you. Thank you!! Lisi
Aw!! Thank you so much Lisi! I really appreciate your support. Hope you enjoy learning and using the brushes 😊
Gahhhhh thanks sooo much Lisa! I was just going crazy trying to do the backing for a really complex watercolour painting, and selecting around it, inversing it, and filling the selection just wasn't working (too many little "bits" that escaped the selection leaving white pixels along the edge or other such shenanigans). Your method was so much faster and worked perfectly, thank youuuuu! ❤ Dana
Whoohooo! So glad the method helped you Dana! 🤗
Beautiful work, so delicate
Thank you so much Vanessa!
Just bought your brush set and I’m loving it! This tutorial was very helpful. ❤️
Yay! Thank you so much for your purchase! Super happy that you found the tutorial helpful x Happy creating!
This is old but still works as described. Thank you. I’ve been trying to find an easier way to do this
It's a pleasure! The technique works like a charm for all canvases 😊
Thank you so much Lisa!!! this skill is definitely what I looked for!! I bought your Aqua brush but w/o knowing this I wasn't able to use it perfectly but did difficult way. (3:00) Thanks again!
Fantastic! Glad it was helpful! 🤗😘
Thank you soooooo much for this!!!
It's a great pleasure Taylor!
Thank you! Such a helpful video!
So glad you found it helpful!
Lisa, I've tried this and followed step by step. All is well until the last step when I cut. My art disappears along with the background. Can you tell me what I may be doing wrong?
Hi Mayra, You may have accidentally flattened all your layers and not left your "selection" layer to make the selection, or perhaps you are selecting the entire artwork before deleting the background, ie. you're choosing the artwork layer to make a selection instead of the black selection layer you created. It's a bit tricky to fully understand where you may have gone wrong without seeing your file or having more detail. You are more than welcome to send me an email of some screenshots or screen recording to help@lisaglanz.com so I can get a better idea of where you might be going wrong, I'd be happy to help further!
@@Lisaglanz Thank you. I did it finally, but it wasn't straight forward. I don't know if I can duplicate what I did again. If I continue to have trouble, I will send you some screenshots. I'm normally pretty savvy with software, but I've always had issues with selections in Photoshop, so I'm not surprised :)
It was also happening with me, i followed each n every step then whenever I tried to cut my colorful layer, it suddenly disappeared and i left with the black layer. Then after a number of tries, i figured the mistake. It happened when i tried to invert my black layer, the “color fill” option in that bar, was already previously selected, which was causing the problem in selecting the black layer. I just unselect the color fill option in the selection bar, and finally succeeded 😅
@@faizanaqvi5272 thanks a lot!
thank you so much
It's a great pleasure! Glad it was helpful x
Could you use this same method for a repeating background?
I don't see why not! Worth giving it a try 😊
This is for procreate? You might want to mention that in the intro or title.
Hi there! You can apply the same process for Adobe Photoshop as well. The technique is applicable for digital watercolour painting which is mentioned in the title 😊
Will this work with a completely flattened image? I am not having luck.
Hi Catherine, You will need the silhouette shape of your illustration, unfortunately once flattened with a background Procreate will see the entire area and not be able to create a selection from your isolated illustration. You'll need to etch out your illustration if you don't have a layered version. Hope that helps!
Hello Dear Lisa. Can u tel me which Of ur Paper background u USD for drawing all the tutorial watercolour Clips¿ i bought ur Aqua Real pack and im totally in love with tchem.. but i dont know wiat kind Of Paper i just choose. Nów im drawing on the Candy Floss
Hi Klaudia, Thank you so much for your purchase, it's much appreciated! So glad you are enjoying them! I usually use the Chiffon Canvas because I particularly like the subtle paper texture of that canvas. Hope that helps! If you have any other questions at all, please don't hesitate to let me know.
I am new at trying to have my watercolors printed. Rather than the one sharp image you have hear, I have alot of background glazes, tiny spatters etc...yet I need to eliminate the actual "white" unpainted paper so that my notecards don't have a square edge of a background from the photo...I hope that makes sense? I have photoshop elements. Any help much appreciated!!
Hi Cindy, I haven't tried this method in Adobe Photoshop or Elements, but I'm assuming the same method would apply if you created the watercolour paintings in layers in Elements. If however you are working with a scan of your painting, then unfortunately I only know of the laborious method of creating an etch path or removing the background with the eraser tool. It's a method I used when I prepared my traditional watercolour paintings to sell. It's tedious! But gets the job done.
@@Lisaglanz yup I think the tedious method is where I'm headed, but that's ok I can do it!
@@cindybaird9589 Best of luck!
Why not make a white background immediately according to the shape of the sketch and just draw on top?
Hi, I'm not sure I understand your question?
you don't show well how you merge the layers. I did not select the black version but it merged with all the layers. Now I can't undo this
Hi Chrystèle, you should be able to undo any error you made in Procreate. The great feature about Procreate is it has many undo's! It's also very important to make a copy of your original drawing, you always want to keep the layered version as your original and only flattened a duplicate. If you made an error and can't undo for any reason, you can then go ahead and make a new duplicate of your original to start again. If you don't want to use your fingers to pinch the layers together to merge, you can also select them all at once by swiping right on all of the ones you want to select, then Group them, then flatten the Group. Hope that helps!
how to do this in photoshop?
You can follow the same steps I used in Procreate. Your artwork of course needs to be on a separate layer so that you can create the selection as shown in the video.
Great tutorial Lisa! Does this process work for all textured backgrounds?
Yes it should 😊 I've used on my Magic Canvas and the Gouache canvas and ti works perfectly.
@@Lisaglanz Thanks so much Lisa.
Very helpful! Thank you!🙏🏻❤️
It's a great pleasure Rodica! Glad you found it helpful.