Help transitioning to digital please! Best tablets to use?
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@smceccarelli I'm really sorry to hear you had so much trouble.
After seeing how bad my images look on my computer and any other device, I've decided to use procreate only as a sketchpad to work out ideas.
I'm curious about how you'll change your process in light of this? Moving to photoshop really early in the process? Have you gotten through the workaround yet?
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@smceccarelli man, this is super disappointing as I just bought an iPad and procreate. I have photoshop but only a plastic tablet to work on. At least I can work out my ideas and drawings on it.Thanks for posting this important information
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X-rite colorimeters work on iPad to calibrate the colour on your device using an app called ColorTRUE. Would that help get the colours to match your monitor? I haven't used it myself but I understand its possible to load up ICC profiling and print simulation. I was planning on buying one (x-rite) as I currently have a Spyder colorimeter but would like to have one that is compatible with my iPad.
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I've actually wondered about this with the contests and anything I post online. As an amateur, if I do anything digital, I work entirely in Procreate. If it looks ok on my Macbook, can I assume that the colors are going to be ok on everyone's computer? I know they may not be perfectly accurate, but are they good enough for SVS contests and instagram?
Laurie DeMott
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@demotlj Yes. ProCreate, as I mentioned, is an exceptionally good and powerful digital painting tool, and perfectly good for anything that remains in the digital world. The issues concern exclusively projects that are intended for print and need to be transferred to a pre-press team. For that, youād still need Photoshop, though it can be a part of the process only: it does not mean that the images have to be done in Photoshop from start to finish.
Iād also say itās not an issue if youāre doing digital prints, for example for an Etsy shop. It becomes limiting only if you need to create CYMK files for a publisher. -
@sigross No, this has nothing to do with color calibration. You also cannot install ICC profiles on the iPad. ProCreate launched CYMK profiles on the new update, but it turns out theyāre just āsimulationsā - they donāt compare 1:1 with the āproperā CYMK profiles used by Photoshop and by printing presses.
Simply put: donāt work in CYMK on ProCreate: itās pointless. If you need to deliver CYMK profiles you need still to do the conversion on a computer in Photoshop (or equivalent).
Working in RGB is fine - and also transfers perfectly well to Photoshop. -
@carolinedrawing I still work extensively in ProCreate -whenever I know I will be doing part of a project while not in my studio. You can transfer to Photoshop at the very end (with RGB files) without issues. This project was just unfortunate because I set up the files in CYMK on ProCreate, believing that would work out.
I have a workaround to the current issue and, while time-consuming, itās going to be ok in the end. -
@smceccarelli Thanks. That's very helpful.
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@smceccarelli Ok, I think it's possible there's is something I'm doing with the file resolution that has me disappointed in the final image, so it would be good for me to troubleshoot instead of changing my process entirely yet again. Can't thank you enough for sharing this, it's really good to know the limits of tools when I can't quite reach them myself yet.
Also, I'm sure you're helping everyone out when you give the people at ProCreate all this info, so thanks for that too. -
@smceccarelli yes you can install ICC profiles on the ipad. It does AdobeRGB, sRGB and ProPhotoRGB.
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@sigross Thatās cool...but what about the different CYMK profiles printers use?
The ProCreateās team response to avoid the issue was to āprint directly from ProCreateā...Iāll try telling that the pre-press team and the printer that they simply have to change their whole process to use my files
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@smceccarelli good point
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AFter reading this, I googled it. I found this printing business with a how-to. I'm exploring the cost of sending printing out compared to buying my own high end printer. https://web.printingcenterusa.com/blog/how-to-convert-rgb-to-cmyk
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@smceccarelli
This response makes me think they don't WANT to turn it into a professional tool... -
@carolinedrawing Iām not an expert by all means, but I read an article or forum entry a while ago that said the issues regarding printing profiles are native to the iPad operating system. So the question may be more, whether Apple would want the iPad to become like a laptop or not.
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I'm fairly new around here, but for what it's worth... After much research, reading reviews, and taking a deep look down the black hole that is my portemonnaie, I went ahead and got myself a Huion Kamvas Pro 20 (2019). The rest of my setup is PC, so an iPad wasn't really something I looked into.
Until now I've used a Wacom Intuos Pro, which has been my trusty companion for some years, and I would not have minded jumping in at the deep end and getting a Cintiq... But then there's that aforementioned issue with that gaping nothingness staring at me from within my portemonnaie. The Huion was less then half the price of a comparably sized Cintiq!
So far my experience with the Huion has been very positive. It works flawlessly in tandem with Photoshop., setup was quick and easy, driver install took only a few minutes and worked without a hitch, and after setting up the shortcut keys to my liking, I was off to the races.
Hope this helps.
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@smceccarelli Can I ask you please what solution you found as a workaround? I forgot I was supposed to start the file in rgb in procreate and convert later in photoshop to cmyk. And just imported the .psd cmyk file from my computer on procreate. It was only when my fiance asked about how colors exports on my computer that I checked. Now I have 60% of an illustration done in procreate with horrible colors when seen on my computer. It still exports the illustration as rgb, even though the original .psd file is cmyk. I would like to be able to use my work if possible, instead of starting all over again. Thank you for your help
