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How to Change the Paper Color in Procreate

How to Change the Paper Color in Procreate

In this blog post, we will be going over how to change the paper color in Procreate. Changing the paper color is one of the simplest ways to change the feel of your work with very little effort involved.

For this tutorial, we'll be using our Phantom Paper pack for Procreate (but this technique applies to changing the color of any paper texture).

The pack has a wide variety of paper styles but we kept the paper it's natural colors so you have a solid base for your art.

1. select the paper layer.

Open the Layers Panel and select the paper texture layer.

In Phantom Paper, this layer with always be named with "RSCO" followed by the name of the paper texture.

Drawing of magician in Procreate with Layers Panel showing selected paper texture layer.

2. Make Layer Adjustments.

Tap the Adjustment Icon in the upper right of the screen. Select Hue, Saturation, Brightness and tap Layer.

Drawing of magician in Procreate with Hue saturation and brightness option selected in Adjustments Panel.

3. adjust hue & saturation.

Adjust the hue and saturation sliders until you get the color you're looking for.

Adjusting the paper texture color in Procreate using hue and saturation sliders in Procreate on iPad

Procreate makes it easy to adjust the color of your paper texture. You can easily change it without any unwanted consequences or effects on you work.

Experiment with this process on any paper texture in your next project!

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