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Made especially for touch devices, Adobe Fresco<\/strong> is a dream come true for anyone who wants to indulge in the thrills of painting<\/a> and drawing right from their digital devices. Released on September 24, Fresco gives free rein to illustrators and designers who want to let loose with their creativity.
The app’s user experience was designed to be simple and straightforward, making this program an accessible illustration and design tool for even beginners. That’s really saying something when you consider that the current king of illustration apps has got to be Procreate<\/a>, with its recent introduction of textured typography.
Adobe Fresco is here to give Procreate a run for its money, betting on its pick-up-and-use interface as the game changer between the two apps. Here’s a walkthrough of what you can expect with Fresco, as well as powerful, actionable tips to get the most out of it that you won’t find anywhere else.<\/p>

<\/span>The Problem That Adobe Fresco Solves<\/span><\/h2>

Adobe has a long line of apps that many of us are already familiar with, even if we haven’t had extensive experience with all of them. From Adobe Spark<\/a> to Adobe XD<\/a>, the brand’s products have been a staple for designers for many decades.
The thing about many of the company’s drawing and illustration apps, however, was that they were often nothing more than bare-bones versions of their desktop programs. For instance, though you could use many of the features in Sketchbook and Illustrator on your mobile device, there were noticeable restrictions.
Fresco aims to solve all that by being the first Adobe app of its kind that actually combines all of the beloved features of Adobe’s various drawing apps into one offering. As a result, it should attract both professional designers looking for a serious, all-in-one tool for their projects and those who are just getting their virtual hands wet with Fresco’s digital paint.<\/p>

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Previously known as Project Gemini, Adobe Fresco is perhaps one of the most user-friendly apps that the company has ever released. Mindful of its large base of designers who use its products, Adobe has made Fresco compatible with Photoshop<\/a>. Simply put, you’re able to transfer all of your files between both apps without any friction.
Before Fresco, you had to contend with the workflows of design projects—managing files, the import and export of work, and the addition of any new brushes—across different apps, especially when you weren’t on desktop. Naturally, that tended to add extra steps and extra time (read: friction) to your design workflows.
That’s not to say that Fresco will solve all of your cross-app needs, but it goes a long way toward offering better software for better UX for its users. As an app that was designed especially for the Apple Pencil and iPad Pro, Adobe Fresco treats illustrators to a desktop-quality design app that you definitely want to check out as a digital artist.
You can start out for free with the basic version of Fresco and then upgrade to the Premium version through in-app purchases. Note that the free version will limit your selection of brushes, one of the app’s main features, and you’re not allowed to export any high-resolution files.<\/p>

<\/span>What You Can Do With Adobe Fresco<\/span><\/h2>

Any time much-anticipated software like this is released, everyone wants to know about its features. Fresco is feature-rich, but there’s no filler from what I can tell: Everything is tailor-made to fulfill the amateur and pro illustrator’s<\/a> design needs.<\/p>

<\/span>The Brush Collection<\/span><\/h3>

For starters, Adobe asserts that Fresco boasts the biggest brush collection<\/a> on the planet (more than 1800 digital brushes in total), backed up with smart technology that results in a digital painting and drawing UX that feels very natural. Just do a search for the types of feel, materials or textures that you want in your brushes, and Fresco will treat you to a virtual smorgasbord of brushes that were professionally designed.
In terms of brushes alone, the selection is vast (compared to other illustration apps), and it’s all integrated right into Creative Cloud. As a matter of fact, simply save your files as Cloud PSDs (a new format) to sync them across all of your devices. What you’ll get is:<\/p>