Adobe Fresco

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You want to be able to draw or paint beautiful canvases without the constraints of mixing colors and establishing a palette, or the inability to erase or resume correctly after an error or when the rendering does not suit you. It won’t have the same charm for purists, but thanks to digital technology it’s now possible. Software now allows you to simulate the rendering of any pencil or brush. Adobe Fresco is one of them…

Adobe Fresco is a software, accessible whether or not you are a licensee of the Creative Cloud suite, for virtual painting and drawing that is compatible with some models of Microsoft Surface and Wacom Mobile Studio Pro tablet but is also available as an iOS application compatible with some versions of iPad. It allows you to use a stylus to draw, create illustrations or make amazingly realistic oil paintings.

The software provides users with a wide range of virtual brush types, both vector and pixel-based (see our article DTP for more information on the difference between vector and raster), with optimized rendering and ultra-realistic appearance with Adobe Sensei support (see the article Adobe Sensei, artificial intelligence to serve creation for more information). With Sensei, Fresco can deliver amazing results when diluting watercolors or layering and mixing paint layers.

With cloud storage and seamless integration with Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite of software, you can start a project on your iPad, for example, and continue working on your computer, but also have access to all the resources in your library, such as fonts or content from Adobe Stock. The files are saved in Adobe Photoshop PSD format, so you can open and edit all your projects started on Adobe Fresco on any device you use. Photoshop layers and masks can also be used with Adobe Fresco to apply targeted changes to your drawings and illustrations.

Once your projects are finished you will be able to export them to the most popular image formats such as JPEG or PNG. You will find tutorials on the Adobe site adapted to your level of mastery of Fresco, whether you are a beginner or an expert, to help you get started with the software and allow you to extract its full potential.