Adobe Fresco is a vector and
raster graphics editor
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developed by
Adobe
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primarily for
digital painting
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.
Originally designed for the
Apple
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iPad
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with Pencil support, development for Adobe Fresco began in late 2019.
Along with
Creative Cloud, Fresco was released as part of CC 2019.
History
Adobe Fresco for
iPad
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with Pencil support was first announced in November 2018, and was released in November 2019 as said in Adobe MAX 2019.
The Adobe Fresco app has since been made free of charge to use, but it has a premium subscription that can be purchased separately or along with the Creative Cloud All Apps subscription.
In 2022, Adobe Fresco was reviewed as an easy way to create art with sketching, painting, and watercolor on an iPad.
Features
The user interface contains different features including Live and Vector Brushes, basic photo editing, layering, and more. It also offers Perspective grids and supports basic animation with motion tools introduced in 2021. The sidebars that are found at each edge of the screen contains a variety of tools to select, create, and manipulate objects or artworks in Fresco. These tools can be selected as following: drawing, typing, painting, reshaping, slicing and cutting, symbolism, moving and zooming, and sketching.
Release history
Release history of Adobe Fresco, sorted by version number:
See also
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Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor and Computer-aided design, design software developed and marketed by Adobe Inc., Adobe. Originally designed for the Apple Inc., Apple Mac (computer), Macintosh, development of Adobe Illustrator began ...
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Autodesk SketchBook
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Krita
Krita ( ) is a free and open-source software, free and open-source raster graphics editor designed primarily for digital art and 2D animation. Originally created for Linux, the software also runs on Windows, macOS, Haiku (operating system), Hai ...
References
External links
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Fresco
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Proprietary raster graphics editors
IOS software