You’ll be able to tell that Alpha Lock is on because your layer thumbnail will have a checkered background behind the illustration. To turn on Alpha Lock, simply click the Layer thumbnail of the Layer you want to add texture to and select Alpha Lock from the menu. It’s part of the layer that you’re working on which makes it harder to undo if you want to make changes.īoth techniques are great! Just choose which one works for you based on the piece you’re creating. With Alpha Lock, the texture that you’re adding is more permanent. We’ll brush in our texture on to Layer 1. For example, if you use a Clipping Mask to add texture, you can always edit the texture in the future since it’s on its own layer. Using Procreate’s expansive collection of drawing tools, you can easily make highly detailed frames. Procreate creates a blank canvas with two layers, a white background and a transparent layer. The biggest difference between the two is that a Clipping Mask allows for non-destructive editing. You’ll enable it on the layer that you are adding texture to, and like a Clipping Mask, the texture will be contained on just the elements of that layer. Alpha Lock functions similarly to a Clipping Mask, but instead of using two layers, it just works with one. You may be wondering what the difference is between Alpha Lock and a Clipping Mask.

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