How to unstack in Procreate?

Procreate unstack

In Procreate, when you are doing a lot of artwork, and if you fail to organize all your artwork, you can end up in a mess. Well, in order to organize the artwork, you can simply put them into a stack. Stacking your artwork is one of the best ways to organize your artwork. These stacks can be just considered like some folders, which hold your artwork and designs. This way, we can simply sort our work, and put similar things together, so that we can find them easily, and they are organized.

Now, let’s say that you have a lot of stuff in your stack, and now you want to get some of the artworks, and designs removed (unstacked) from the stack. In this article, we are going to have a look at what we can do to remove or unstack some of your files, from the stack. This is important when you want to keep your work organized, and you have got too much of things in the stack.

How to unstack in Procreate?

Well, if you have decided to unstack some files from the stack, let’s move ahead and see some steps, which can help you in unstacking some files from the element. Firstly, we will only focus on unstacking a single file, and then we will also try unstacking multiple files from the stack.

Here are the steps for unstacking some files from the stack –

Step 1: In the Procreate application, go to the stack in which, you want to make changes (unstack some files from the stack). On the screen, you would be able to see some elements from that particular stack.

Step 2: In this step, you have to tap and hold onto the file which you want to unstack. Now, you have to drag this file to the top left corner of the screen, where you can see the name of your stack. This should take you out of the stack, and return to the gallery.

Step 3: When you have come to the gallery, you can drop the file now, and tadaa!!, the file is unstacked from the stack.

Now, you can add it to another stack may be or do whatever, but the thing is that you have successfully unstacked some files from the stack.

We have seen the procedure for unstacking a single file from the stack. What if you want to unstack multiple files from the stack, are you going to repeat the above set of steps so many times? Well, you can do that, but we have something better than this if you want to unstack multiple files from the stack at once. Follow the given steps, and you would be able to unstack multiple elements files from the stack at once.

How to unstack multiple files from a stack

Step 1: In the Procreate application, go to the stack in which, you want to make changes. On the screen, you would be able to see some elements from that particular stack.

Step 2: Now, you have to tap and hold on to one of the files, that you want to unstack from the stack. Keeping that file on hold, just tap on some other files, which are also required to be unstacked, so that they are also selected.

Step 3: Now, when you are happy with all your selections, and you are ready to unstack all those selected files, you just have to drag those files to the top left of the screen, where you can see the name of the stack. Doing this should take you to the gallery. If it does not, you can try it once again.

Step 4: Now, when you are at the gallery, you can just release your finger, and drop the files, and Tadaa! All the files are now unstacked.

Now, we have unstacked the elements from the stack. Now you can add them to another stack, or whatever, but we have successfully unstacked all the required files as well.

Conclusion

In this article, we have seen how can we unstack some files from the stack in Procreate. You can try this, and organize your files and your artwork. Organizing the artwork is very important, since we can find and group similar artworks easily, and the overall workflow of the development of the whole artwork becomes simpler.

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