Adobe Fresco: Draw & Paint 4+
Digital Painting & Sketching
Adobe Inc.
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
The only free app that combines vector, live, and thousands of pixel brushes, Adobe Fresco is one of the highest rated drawing & painting apps built for iPad and iPhone.
Adobe Fresco is a free drawing and painting app designed for digital artists. Built for iPad and iPhone with Apple Pencil Pro compatibility, Fresco offers a wide variety of brushes and features to help you create your next masterpiece.
Take your artwork to the next level by adding motion with Fresco’s suite of animation and motion path tools. Explore frame-by-frame animation and revolutionary motion paths. Draw and paint with rotational and reflective symmetry guides. Paste photos from your clipboard or your camera roll to practice your form. Show off your process by exporting a time-lapse video of your process. Explore hundreds of tutorials and inspiration pieces from the Fresco Community. Plus, brushes and projects follow you across devices so you can work wherever and whenever inspiration strikes.
• Brush variety — Paint with thousands of pixel brushes, vector brushes, and exclusive Live Brushes. You can also import your favourite Photoshop brushes as .abr files
• Unlimited layers — Create like a pro and discover infinite possibilities with unlimited layers.
• Symmetry — Draw stunning symmetrical artwork quickly and easily with new reflective & rotational guides.
• Snap to shape – Hold down at the end of your stroke to snap a perfect circle, polygon, line, or arc into place.
• Paint inside mode – Speed up colouring by constraining your brush strokes to your line art.
• Colour palettes – Fresco automatically creates a colour palette when you import any artwork.
• Recolour your artwork — Photoshop-like adjustment layers allow you to easily test and apply changes to brightness, hue/saturation, and colour balance.
• Text — Add stylish text to your artwork using Adobe’s expansive collection of free fonts.
• Multicolour swatches — Pick up the elements of any piece of artwork to paint with multiple colours at once using any pixel brush or Live Brush.
• Motion tools — Adding motion to your artwork is as easy as drawing a stroke. Create an animation using frame by frame or motion paths for a GIF or MP4 movie file.
• Time-lapse — Export a video that replays the creation of your artwork from start to finish.
• Magic wand, liquify and free transform — Easily select your artwork with the magic wand tool and use liquify and other free transform tools to alter any object.
• Learn content — Strengthen your skills with step-by-step tutorials and built-in video tutorials.
• Drawing aids — Trace along the edges of a ruler, circle, square or polygon with a brush or fill inside or outside of a shape with the Fill tool.
• Guides & grids — Align your artwork easily and create perspective grids from an imported photo.
• Share your artwork — Export in popular formats like PNG, JPG and layered PSD files.
• Seamless integration with Photoshop and Illustrator — Open documents in either app without importing or exporting. Send your layered vector illustrations directly to Illustrator for desktop or iPad for finishing touches.
Terms & Conditions:
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What’s New
Version 6.1.0
THOUSANDS OF BRUSHES UNLOCKED: Everyone can now enjoy free access to thousands of previously premium, game-changing brushes in Fresco. Plus, you can also import your own.
Ratings and Reviews
Best professional painting software
The ability of fresco to paint like in real painting on canvas or water colour is amazing, the chemistry and mediums, oils is out and you left with creativity without boundaries. Let your imagination go, put on what you want, not what possible. As it is in early stage adobe got a mile to go, you can export file in any format except to fresco format. I found that sailing digital pdf do not bring, original price. Backup is difficult as if you run out of space it will exist on a cloud but not on any media you can save to. Printing to canvas at the moment the best results is on cannon via pdf, do not use photoshop as you may loose brush details.
The max printing resolution is low, resulting in smaller prints 80x80 was my max to get excellent quality, if you looking on larger size wall size, the quality is not sufficient. One file in above A2 can run a size more then 1gb. The brush strokes takes memory, to get real print as on your iPad you need the largest file possible, then print short Streep and Chang the size of the print, until you get the best result. Good luck. This programme is for real professional artist, for hobby it is a long curve. What ever you do keep your brushes and paints.
I love Adobe Sketch & a bit sad to upgrade to Fresco
Many times I have an idea during the night & I can quickly draw those idea into Adobe Sketch without any problems or stress… whilst off line. If I have any ideas during the night & I have to use Fresco, I have to turn on internet to access software, select blank doc then Fresco tells me that I don’t have enough 1.6gb or 2gb of memory to open or use a blank doc. I have or had more creative out put using Adobe Sketch than Fresco. Plus is there anyway to access my work offline instead of using the Adobe Cloud. Adobe Cloud should be for final storage. I feel that I have been less creative on Adobe Fresco / Cloud.
I just realised that the last time I used Adobe Fresco without any problems was February 2021 since then EVERYTHING is saved to the cloud .
The fresco software is now reaching 1gb …… Adobe Sketch & Adobe Draw was very less in size.
It’s getting there but there’s better alternatives
I’ve had this app since launch and despite the improvements it still feels quite lacklustre compared to other drawing and painting applications on the iPad such as Procreate or clip studio. Not to mention so many of the "new" features should have already came with the application day 1 as other apps (like the ones mentioned) already have most of these functions there. honestly before fresco released I had hoped they would do an direct port of photoshop since that could have given them a leg up to some degree (since it would be photoshop on ipad) but instead they separate it into two apps (fresco and ps)and tried to copy Procreate’s simplified lay out but instead it pails in comparison. This made the apps feel extremely underwhelming and unfinished to an degree. Adobe is supposed to be a powerhouse used by professionals in many industries and they’re being beat by indie (in comparison) applications like CSP and Procreate.
To conclude I’ll still use fresco from time to time and I do hope it can eventually reach stage where it at least feels worth using but in the meantime I’ll just stick to ps on pc and Procreate/ CSP on my iPad. Honestly I’m just pretty disappointed that fresco/ps on iPad could have been good, it could have blew both Procreate and CSP out of the water but it didn’t.
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Information
- Provider
- ADOBE SYSTEMS SOFTWARE IRELAND LIMITED
- Size
- 853.8 MB
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2019 - 2024 Adobe. All Rights Reserved.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Fresco + Ps on iPad £9.49
- Fresco + Ps on iPad £8.99
- Fresco + Ps on iPad £68.99
- Adobe Design Mobile Bundle £14.49
- Adobe Design Mobile Bundle £144.99