Adobe Fresco: Draw & Paint 4+

Digital Painting & Sketching

Adobe Inc.

    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

Take your digital art to the next level with Fresco. Explore hundreds of brushes, add motion to your art with animation tools, create perfect shapes with ease and more.

Adobe Fresco is a free drawing and painting app designed for digital artists. Built for iPad and iPhone, with Apple Pencil Compatibility, Fresco offers a wide variety of brushes and tools to help you create your next masterpiece.

Looking to take your artwork to the next level? Easily add motion with Fresco’s suite of animation and motion path tools. Paste in photos from your clipboard to add decorations or practice your form. Show off your process by exporting a time-lapse video of your piece. Explore hundreds of tutorials and inspiration pieces from the Fresco Community.

Adobe Fresco reimagines essential tools for illustrators, including modernized selection and masking with a flexible UI so you can draw faster and without distractions. Brushes and projects follow you across devices so you can work wherever and whenever inspiration strikes. Subscribe to the premium version of Fresco to access thousands of premium brushes and fonts.

FREE FEATURES
• Brush variety — Paint with 50+ Photoshop paint brushes, vector brushes, and exclusive Live Brushes. Use built-in smudge brushes for easy blending as well as a set of pixel and vector eraser brushes.
• Unlimited layers — Create like a pro and discover infinite possibilities with unlimited layers.
• 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.
• Multicolour eyedrop — 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, create natural-looking perspective artwork or create perspective 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 those finishing touches.

PREMIUM FEATURES
• An expanded library of 1,000+ brushes
• Access to over 1,000+ premium fonts
• Seasonal brush releases from Illustration evangelist Kyle T. Webster
• Ability to import brushes (ABR files)
• Increased Creative Cloud storage

Terms & Conditions:
Your use of this application is governed by the Adobe General Terms of Use http://www.adobe.com/go/terms_linkfree_uk and the Adobe Privacy Policy http://www.adobe.com/go/privacy_policy_linkfree_uk

Do not sell or share my personal information: www.adobe.com/go/ca-rights-linkfree

What’s New

Version 5.4.1

NEW MOTION PATH CONTROL: Use the new Spin option to rotate your artwork by 360 degrees clockwise or counterclockwise.

MOTION GIFS WITH TRANSPARENT BACKGROUNDS: Experience improved results with exported motion gifs that have a transparent background.

WINTER BRUSHES: Warm up your chilly drawing devices with the Winter 2024 brush set. This season’s set includes new painterly brushes with realistic paint buildup and textures, unique FX, inkers, foliage, and more!

Ratings and Reviews

4.6 out of 5
6.8K Ratings

6.8K Ratings

shilohstudio ,

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.

no nikki name ,

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.

Angelic carousel ,

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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