What's New

HARMONIOUS COLOR SWATCHES: A new algorithm allows the order of color swatches that are generated from an imported image to be harmonious and aesthetically pleasing.

App Description

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

Create beautiful digital art with three types of brushes:

• Live Brushes: Paint with watercolors and oils that blossom, blend, smear, and smudge just like the real thing.
• Pixel brushes: Experiment with world-class Photoshop brushes (.abr) that mimic mediums like charcoal, pastel, and more.
• Vector brushes: Create crisp lines for designs that can scale to any size.

Canvas or a sketch pad, watercolor or oils – Fresco has you covered. Easily paste reference images from your clipboard to trace and practice your form. Use our dynamic motion tools or show off your process with family and friends by exporting a timelapse video. Discover transforming effects like Liquify.

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 inspiration strikes. Subscribe to the premium version of Fresco to access thousands of premium brushes, fonts, shapes and increased cloud storage.

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.
• Professional-level tools — Create like a pro with powerful tools for drawing and painting including selections, masking, unlimited layers, and layer groups.
• Multicolor eyedrop — Pick up the elements of any piece of artwork to paint with multiple colors at once using any pixel brush or Live Brush.
• Recolor your artwork — Photoshop-like adjustment layers allow you to easily test and apply changes to brightness, hue/saturation, and color balance.
• 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.
• Motion tools — Adding motion to your artwork is as easy as drawing a stroke. Create an animation frame by frame or with motion paths for a GIF or MP4 movie file.
• 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.
• Sketch and Draw migration — Access your Adobe Photoshop Sketch and Adobe Illustrator Draw projects the first time you sign into Fresco.

PREMIUM FEATURES
• An expanded library of 1,000+ brushes
• Access to over 1000+ premium fonts for use in Fresco
• 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_en and the Adobe Privacy Policy http://www.adobe.com/go/privacy_policy_linkfree_en

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

iPhone Screenshots

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iPad Screenshots

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App Changes

  • September 11, 2019 Initial release
  • September 23, 2019 New version 1.0.2
  • October 15, 2019 New version 1.0.3
  • November 04, 2019 New version 1.1
  • December 09, 2019 New version 1.2
  • December 24, 2019 New version 1.2.1
  • July 14, 2020 New version 1.7.1
  • October 22, 2020 New version 2.0.3
  • October 27, 2020 New version 2.0.4
  • November 11, 2020 New version 2.0.5
  • December 09, 2020 New version 2.1.0
  • August 05, 2021 New version 2.7.3
  • October 08, 2021 New version 2.7.9
  • October 04, 2023 New version 5.0.0
  • November 03, 2023 New version 5.0.1
  • November 15, 2023 New version 5.0.2
  • December 25, 2023 New version 5.2