The Gallery – Organizing Your Files

The very first page you will see upon opening Procreate for the first time is what is called the Gallery. This is where all your files exist and where you can create, organize, and view your artworks. This feature sets Procreate apart from most other drawing software, in which the landing page takes you directly to a new canvas.

To begin, the gallery should already have some sample artworks included to give you an idea of the full extent of what the software is capable of. The gallery is where the application automatically saves all your work, much like cloud-based types of software such as Google Docs. This relieves you from having to continually save your progress while working.

In this chapter, let’s look into the gallery and its functionality. By the end of the chapter, you will have learned how to navigate the gallery, make a new canvas, share and arrange your existing canvases, and edit your canvas information.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

• Creating a canvas
• Sharing a canvas
• Ordering, renaming, and stacking
• Selecting, duplicating, and deleting