How To Create a Color Palette in Procreate Using the Eyedropper Tool

October 15, 2020

How To Create a Color Palette in Procreate Using the Eyedropper Tool

Creating a color palette in Procreate from an image is SUPER easy—but only after knowing the one tip that will give you the eyedropper tool.

So you’re in Procreate and you want to make your own color palette. Whether you have an image in mind—or even easier—you want to import a color palette from Pinterest or a color palette site, it’s easy to do.

To summarize, you’ll import your photo or image into Procreate, then use the eyedropper tool to create a palette.

Here are those instructions in-depth if you need more help.

Pick an Image for Color Palette Inspiration

I’m using this image from a recent unboxing video I did. I am so hooked on this watercolor palette by Prima Marketing and wanted to create a fresh color palette for Procreate to go along with it.

If you prefer, you can use a color-palette friendly site like design-seeds.com or your favorite site that offers color palettes instead.

Save Your Color Palette to Your Photos

Tap and hold to save your color palette or image to your photos collection.

Import the Color Palette into Procreate App

Click on the wrench, then click Insert, then click Import image. Find your image in Photos in your Camera Roll. Tap to select your color palette and insert it in there.

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Tap and Hold to access the Eyedropper Tool

On the first color, tap and hold with your finger until you get the eyedropper tool to grab the color. Let go, and you’ll notice your new color is in the color indicator in the top-right of Procreate.

Tap and Add Colors to Your Procreate Color Palette

Create a new color palette and once you have each color in the color indicator, tap an empty square in Procreate’s color palette, and voilà! You successfully built a color palette from an existing image.

Choose to delete your imported image or keep it in your document by hiding the layer it’s on.

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Click to Read Video Transcript

Hey guys, it’s Jenn. Today, I’m going to be showing you how to create a color palette in Procreate using the eyedropper tool.
I’m mostly creating this video because I saw my own article on how to do this and it didn’t work. And I realized I was missing a crucial step. So I wanted to make sure that this would be a video that would be helpful for you and to update that old post.
So in Procreate, we’re going to create a new document, just do screen size, go in here. I’m going to add an image.
And I have an image in here that I’d like to use based off of an unboxing video, I just did on my channel. So now that this image is in here, I’m going to go ahead and create the new palette.
So in here, what we’re going to do is tap the color up here, click plus for the new palette and then click brush.
So what I’m going to do here now is click and hold with my finger and then find the color that I want. And that’s how you access the eyedropper tool.
So that I’m going to go back into pallets, add a new color by just tapping with my pencil.
And then I’m also going to get some tints of this color too. So I have kind of like the darker version. So here’s a shade of a color.
And then I’m going to grab this lighter color and plop it in here. And I’m actually gonna move this around a little bit, just click and hold to move these around.
So there we go. And then again, just tap with your finger click to add to the pallet, tap with your finger again, click to add. I’m just going to grab that tint.
So I’m just going to continue this for all the colors here.
If you mess up and need to delete a color, just tap and hold with your pencil. Wait for delete to show up. There we go. And then you can try and re-add that color.
So now once you have your pallet ready, you can just tap on name to rename it. I’m going to rename this “Hello Brio 2019,” done, and then set the default and then we’re good to go.
So now if I go ahead and just hide this image, I will have my pallet ready to go. And then I can just have all of my colors in here.
That’s all for today. Thanks for watching. I hope this video was helpful and if you have any Procreate questions, just leave a comment below and please remember to subscribe to my channel for similar videos. I’ll talk to you next time.