Celebrating five years of Fresco with powerful new updates that unlock digital drawing and painting for everyone
Deepa Subramaniam October 23, 2024
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Since its launch in November 2019, Adobe Fresco has revolutionized digital art, delivering 120 features in more than 50 releases and fostering a community of millions of users. Today, we're embracing creativity for all by making Fresco completely free for all users, so anyone and everyone can discover - or rediscover - the joy of drawing and painting with the support of Adobe Fresco.
That means that over a thousand cutting-edge pixel brushes - plus the ability to import your own - are now available to everyone for free. Whether you're doodling for creative ideation or an animator creating your next character, we're thrilled to celebrate and support creators with the magic of Adobe Fresco.
Powerful tools that transform digital art Adobe Fresco empowers creators to express one of the earliest forms of creativity using state-of-the-art tools, reimagining basic drawing and painting techniques with thousands of professionally designed digital brushes that feel like the real thing. A modern drawing and painting app built for the latest touch and stylus devices, Fresco offers a variety of brushes and advanced tools, allowing creators of all experience levels to combine vector and raster content to create their next masterpiece.
Over the past five years Fresco has radically transformed digital art through innovations that empower creators to streamline their workflows and enhance their creativity with analog techniques reimagined for touch and stylus devices.
Live oil and watercolor brushes, vector brushes, and thousands of pixel brushes
The latest advancements in touch and stylus technology with haptic feedback, tilt, barrel-roll, and squeeze support for Apple Pencil
Cutting-edge motion features that make it easy to add eye-catching movement to artwork in seconds
The user-friendly symmetry tool, which ensures precision and faster creation of complex compositions
A vector trimmer to quickly remove intersecting vector strokes and clean up line art
The paint inside tool option to fill an enclosed area without going outside the lines
Fresco makes it simple for anyone who sketches or storyboards as part of their workflow to seamlessly access their artwork in the rich tools they know and love, such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. You can create a rough sketch, brainstorm ideas, design a mock-up, or storyboard a scene quickly and easily and continue your creative journey in the world's leading pro design and digital imaging applications.
The app is like a digital art supply closet that has everything you need to meet industry standards and bring your vision to life with a range of brushes for a variety of mediums, including raster, vector, and live brushes. It also provides next-level motion tools that allow you to add eye-catching movement to any illustration in seconds and get your artwork noticed.
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Why creators - hobbyists and professionals - prefer Fresco Creators, designers and illustrators love both the creative capabilities of Fresco and its workflow benefits - the time savings, process efficiencies, and ease of use. They love not having to toggle across different apps and wasting time airdropping, exporting, and downloading. And they love that, unlike other digital painting apps, Fresco is free.
Drawing is a foundational artistic medium and often how people find their creative passion early in life. As a free app that's intuitive and fun for anyone to use, Fresco is perfect for aspiring creators and professionals alike.
Let's learn about a few of the inspiring ways that artists create with Fresco.
Wooden Wave Collaborating under the name Wooden Wave, Matthew and Roxanne Ortiz are a husband-and-wife art duo based in Hawaii who specialize in murals. They use Fresco from start to finish in their creative process - from sketch thumbnails and design revisions to client updates and final delivery - whether the murals are physical or digital.
The app has dramatically changed how they work on large-scale mural projects, especially the vector capability. In the past, they'd have to live trace a raster image or work natively in Illustrator. Now, Wooden Wave can quickly create a digital illustration in Fresco, use a projector hooked up to an iPad to project the illustration, and then trace it out on the wall with actual paint. They can make easy edits on the fly while the image is being digitally projected and see them reflected immediately at real physical scale.
I'd been drawing digitally on the iPad for a while before, but the ability to use vector was what turned on the lightbulb and solved a lot of problems for me, says Matthew Ortiz. That's what cinched it for me. The vector trimming tool is chef's kiss.
Roxanne Ortiz is from Lahaina, Hawaii, which in 2023 endured a catastrophic wildfire that claimed many lives and destroyed the town. A couple of recent projects Wooden Wave worked on involved rebuilding efforts in the community - one for the Lahaina Office of Recovery and another for a local elementary school - where they created digital murals that combined vector and raster content.
That's something we're proud of that we were able to use Fresco for, Roxanne Ortiz says, just to bring some fun and joy and color back to the space.
I'd been drawing digitally on the iPad for a while before, but the ability to use vect
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Celebrating five years of Fresco with powerful new updates that unlock digital drawing and painting for everyone 
