Adobe Fresco: Draw & Paint App

Name: Adobe Fresco: Draw & Paint App
Rating: 4.7 (10425 reviews)
Author: Adobe Inc.

Painting & Animation Studio

Free · In-App Purchases

10k Ratings
Age Rating

4+
Years
Category

Graphics & Design
Developer

Adobe Inc.
Language

EN
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Size

982
MB

Adobe Fresco is a free, professional drawing and painting app made for everyone. Built for iPad and iPhone with Apple Pencil Pro compatibility, Fresco offers powerful features and thousands of brushes to help you create your next masterpiece. CREATE & SHARE YOUR ARTWORK Take your artwork to the next level with Fresco's suite of animation tools, visual effects and expansive brush library. Perfect your artwork with unlimited layers, and easily export and share your work with multiple export presets, including process time-lapses. You can even mark your content as generative AI-free with Fresco's Content Credentials feature. QUICK ANIMATION TOOLS Animate your artwork with frame-by-frame animation and motion paths. Dynamic, easy-to-use features and a library of preset options let you add movement with just a tap. Easily export and share your creations as GIF and MP4 files. THOUSANDS OF BRUSHES Make your masterpiece with our library of exclusive brush packs, completely free. Discover blendable raster brushes, realistic paints and pencils, and sharp, non-pixelating vector brushes. You can also easily import your favourite Photoshop brushes. EASY TO USE Fresco provides professional digital art tools at an accessible Level. Easily create perfect shapes with Snap to Shape. Draw stunning symmetrical artwork with rotational and reflective symmetry guides. Apply effects from our library of Elements to enhance your artwork. Speed up and optimise your colouring with Paint Inside mode. Fresco is the premier, professional digital art tool for artists of all levels. Download today and start creating for free. OTHER FEATURES & TOOLS • 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. • Magic Wand tool, 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. • 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: 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

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4.7

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10k Ratings

Best professional painting software
26/11/2022
@RRKHalevy
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.
Best professional painting software
26/11/2022
@RRKHalevy

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.
It’s getting there but there’s better alternatives
14/05/2021
Angelic carousel
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.
It’s getting there but there’s better alternatives
14/05/2021
Angelic carousel

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.
I think these recent updates may have broken a few things.
12 Aug
CreativeAxolotl2748
Great app. Been using it since 2024. But recently I’ve seen a few glitches around, only with these newer updates in June, July, and this month. 2 main ones are Deletion being glitched (deleted documents reappear on the main section with a ! until permanently deleted), and on the newest update, I’ve been trying to save something but I just keep losing all my progress over and over again because it won’t save, no matter how long I leave it. The bar doesn’t move whatsoever. The amount of times I’ve lost all my progress now is insane and I hate it. I tried moving the layers I had left onto a new document but it still won’t save. It’s only this one too I think 🤔🤔🤔. Please help me!Also, future tool idea: the Fill All Bucket. A special bucket that replaces all of a colour in the entire document in 1 click. Super useful for people like me.
I think these recent updates may have broken a few things.
12 Aug
CreativeAxolotl2748

Great app. Been using it since 2024. But recently I’ve seen a few glitches around, only with these newer updates in June, July, and this month. 2 main ones are Deletion being glitched (deleted documents reappear on the main section with a ! until permanently deleted), and on the newest update, I’ve been trying to save something but I just keep losing all my progress over and over again because it won’t save, no matter how long I leave it. The bar doesn’t move whatsoever. The amount of times I’ve lost all my progress now is insane and I hate it. I tried moving the layers I had left onto a new document but it still won’t save. It’s only this one too I think 🤔🤔🤔. Please help me!Also, future tool idea: the Fill All Bucket. A special bucket that replaces all of a colour in the entire document in 1 click. Super useful for people like me.
More Subscription Nonsense!!
07/11/2019
Lyndon iMac
I’m not even going to do a review of the specific functions, performance or usefulness of this app as anyone even remotely interested in painting and drawing on an iPad will already be using Procreate, and with the imminent arrival of Procreate 5, I can’t help but think Adobe have missed the boat yet again. You’d think that some of those vast Adobe subscription profits would have been re-invested into creating unique, industry-leading products and services on iPad, but instead they are releasing inferior, incomplete and premature iPad apps to simply try and play catch-up with the big boys and they’d like us to pay them £9.99 a month for the privilege of being their beta testers...lol. What is this ‘crowd-funding’?? In my opinion; this monthly software rental shenanigans started by Adobe is a boardroom accountancy decision to appease the greedy Adobe corporate investors and not designed to add value for the artists and creative end-users. Most people are now realising that the initial novelty of software rental is wearing a bit thin and most can see through the blatant corporate cash-grab that it is! They won’t sustain this subscription model much longer as the competition is too strong now, this farcical monopoly is nearing its logical conclusion. I may have been prepared to pay a small one-time payment for this app, but at £9.99 a month I’m actually in complete disbelief that someone in Adobe thinks this makes good business sense; talk about shooting yourself in the foot with a laser-guided missile!
More Subscription Nonsense!!
07/11/2019
Lyndon iMac

I’m not even going to do a review of the specific functions, performance or usefulness of this app as anyone even remotely interested in painting and drawing on an iPad will already be using Procreate, and with the imminent arrival of Procreate 5, I can’t help but think Adobe have missed the boat yet again. You’d think that some of those vast Adobe subscription profits would have been re-invested into creating unique, industry-leading products and services on iPad, but instead they are releasing inferior, incomplete and premature iPad apps to simply try and play catch-up with the big boys and they’d like us to pay them £9.99 a month for the privilege of being their beta testers...lol. What is this ‘crowd-funding’?? In my opinion; this monthly software rental shenanigans started by Adobe is a boardroom accountancy decision to appease the greedy Adobe corporate investors and not designed to add value for the artists and creative end-users. Most people are now realising that the initial novelty of software rental is wearing a bit thin and most can see through the blatant corporate cash-grab that it is! They won’t sustain this subscription model much longer as the competition is too strong now, this farcical monopoly is nearing its logical conclusion. I may have been prepared to pay a small one-time payment for this app, but at £9.99 a month I’m actually in complete disbelief that someone in Adobe thinks this makes good business sense; talk about shooting yourself in the foot with a laser-guided missile!

NEW ZEN COLORING PAGES: Take a moment to relax and reflect by drawing inside the lines of our immersive coloring page content, accessible from the home screen. FLOATING TOOL OPTIONS BAR: The floating tool options bar is back! Move and dock it anywhere for quicker access to controls like your brush settings! RECORD YOUR BRUSHSTROKES: Record your brush strokes and export them to Premiere Mobile and other video-based apps!

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Provider: ADOBE SYSTEMS SOFTWARE IRELAND LIMITED
Size: 982 MB
Category: Graphics & Design
Compatibility: Requires iOS 18.0 or later.

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Requires iOS 18.0 or later.

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Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.

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