Adobe Fresco: Painting Studio

Name: Adobe Fresco: Painting Studio
Rating: 4.68318 (35383 reviews)

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Adobe Fresco: Painting Studio

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User Reviews for Adobe Fresco: Painting Studio

Great app, aweful storage options

I’ve enjoyed painting many things in this app. Wish I could approximate Bob Ross paintings better (nothing seems to match the capabilities of his brush strokes), but still a good app, love it. The major snag I just hit is with storage. Adobe asset manager only allows download of one file at a time, and that’s IF they are synced. If you make a few high fidelity paintings you maybe have 5 that will upload in their storage. Past that the files won’t sync. So just use Google drive right? Think again! Google drive can’t see Fresco files. “The artwork is stored only in the cloud”. Which means Fresco doesn’t play nicely with other cloud providers, they expect you to buy their storage or else. So factor in $120\year for storage costs if you plan to make multiple paintings and want a plan for if someone steals your iPad. I’m disappointed and hoping Adobe makes an easier way to use other storage providers. Most apps allow their files to be freely accessed. Stop the file hostage option Adobe! If I’m wrong let me know and I can update review.Update: you can export as PSD through the app, then save to files and choose storage provider. Then repeat as many times as you have files, wait for them to upload and then delete them.. whew. Exhausting file management if you’re not willing to pay a subscription fee.

A Berean 1711, Jun 24, 2023

Really good but has issues

I’m no Stranger, to animating and drawling I’m not new to any of that. In fact, I’ve tried my fair share of stuff in the past and from my experience this is really good for anyone who is starting out because it’s beginner friendly it doesn’t have too much complicated stuff. It’s easy to get used to and has its fair share of cool features, different brush types and anyone new or just looking for a good program so just start doodling I would recommend this app to anyone in that category but like the title says it has its fair share of issues sometimes off I’ll be drawling end it just won’t pick up my movement. It won’t draw anything just straight up water erase anything, these are super big issues and I haven’t kind of often every once in a while when I use it, I would mainly use this app for just drawling and not anything too big I don’t know if everyone else has the same experience but if you did, I would keep the drawings that you use for this app, simple and sweet that’s what I do and it works the best for me so if anyone is listening to this anyone at all and he want to take my advice you could do that I don’t care overall good app would recommend to beginners and people just looking to have a little fun with a drawing app would recommend it.

a cool person 234, Oct 21, 2023

The best painting experience ( free version )

I am a student and learning painting as a hobby. I have been painting when I was 3 years old, I am not professional however drawing/painting has been part of my life for nearly 4 decades. I am trying to move to digital painting for sometime now and used different softwares like photoshop with stylus, procreate etc. I wanted an app which can provide real painting/drawing experience and adobe fresco fulfills that dream. The live brushes are just amazing. There are reviews which talk about not having many tools but I don’t think we really need them unless you are working on a time constraint production. Real painting is not about having multiple tools, it’s about the experience. I am glad that there is a eraser option as in real media you don’t even have that luxury. I used procreate it’s a great app for digital artists but does not mimic the experience of real painting. So don’t go by the bad reviews and try out this app. I really really don’t want adobe to kill this app just for bad reviews. Also there has been a lot of feedback on high prices, however I think they are just for professionals who are mostly already paying for creative cloud. I just have the free app ( didn’t register for 6 months ) and I have access to all the tools I need to learn and practice. I believe adobe did a great job here and should be appreciated.

Abhisek Jana, Oct 15, 2019

I love this...except

1. Kyle's brushes are not working, for example if I choose a spatter brush, it simply puts up the 'gauge' for color and then does not do anything at all. It works the first time then freezes up. Needs fixed as I have a subscription!I have worked a lot with photos as art the last 15 years but this particular product has gotten my artful creative juices flowing again so I will be working on getting familiar with this as I have always hated mice as ‘uncontrollable.’ BUT the Apple Pencil and an iPad Pro make this now workable digitally. Why? Because combining great software with the new high-tec devices is putting ease-of-use at a whole new level. I have a couple of other apps I can easily ‘prep’ my photos or even do some pre-processing then zip it into Fresco or Photoshop. I abandoned Windows long ago as I had both a laptop and a Surface and am glad to be rid of same. I didn’t like a Mac, either, so the whole idea of being ‘tied to a desk’ or table was repugnant but few choices to transit to until recently. NOW we need Apple to give us artsy types who like hands-on a 14.7” iPad Pro and we can take this to a new level. I choose this over Procreate though Procreate has some advantages for simplicity. I wish Fresco was a bit easier to transfer other file types used.

appalcarp, Feb 18, 2022

I love this...

I can finally go a full 5 stars as Adobe has exceeded my expectations. I have worked a lot with photos as art the last 15 years but this particular product has gotten my artful creative juices flowing again so I will be working on getting familiar with this as I have always hated mice as ‘uncontrollable.’ BUT the Apple Pencil and an iPad Pro make this now workable digitally. Why? Because combining great software with the new high-tec devices is putting ease-of-use at a whole new level. I have a couple of other apps I can easily ‘prep’ my photos or even do some pre-processing then zip it into Fresco or Photoshop. I abandoned Windows long ago as I had both a laptop and a Surface and am glad to be rid of same. I didn’t like a Mac, either, so the whole idea of being ‘tied to a desk’ or table was repugnant but few choices to transit to until recently. NOW we need Apple to give us artsy types who like hands-on a 14.7” iPad Pro (I have heard 14.1") and we can take this to a new level. I choose this over Procreate though Procreate has some advantages for simplicity. I wish Fresco was a bit easier to transfer other file types used.

appalcarp, Jun 21, 2022

Another amazing Adobe app, that will become the standard.

I’m an amateur artist. Have been drawing/sketching since I was a kid. I got an iPad Pro a little a year ago, because I had become temporarily disabled, and needed something to keep me busy, for I would be confined to a bed for a long time. I of course got an Apple Pencil, and started doing the “paint by numbers” apps on here. Then of course, I downloaded the the Adobe Sketch app. It was okay. I literally have no idea what was/am doing, so I was very limited. Then Fresco was released. At first it still felt like the Sketch app, just a bit more customizable. Then when you guys finally released the big update after the 6 month trial, it opened a whole new world for me. Everything became more streamlined, and super easy to understand. Adding Brushes from PS super easy, but still limited. But over time, with more updates, it has become something special and unique. I bought and tried Procreate, several times, but I always end up going back to Fresco. Watching, and experiencing this app evolve, while I’m learning and evolving with it, has been amazing, and with so much time in the future to refine it, and better integrate PS with it, it will become the new standard. I’m so excited to see it happen, knowing I started from the very beginning. Thank you to the whole team over there! SeanieDee

Cousinike, Aug 24, 2020

WOW! why aren’t all drawing apps this good?

I don’t know where to start! This app is so amazing! First it has so many different brushes that you can use for free which is really cool. I’ve used a lot of drawing apps in like 30% of them were not free so I deleted them 50% weren’t even that easy to use and they also have limited ways of drawing and brushes and about 20% of them were just absolutely horrible. When I downloaded Adobe fresco I was not expecting this much it has tutorials on masking which I think is amazing there is tutorials on sections and a tutorial on brushes which was really helpful since there’s so many and I was trying to get the hang on all of them. I also love that you can basically use the lasso select to draw inside or outside of something which is really helpful and I also really love the water colors and how they can stay wet it looks really pretty so yeah as basic as this app gets it’s really cool and I love all the features and the free version is perfect and yeah plus the not free version seems good for professionals and it’s only $10 so maybe I will get that anyways I love this app I recommended it to my friends.

detective JJthe cat, Mar 04, 2021

Should Be Better

What originally attracted me to Adobe Fresco was the easy & familiar interface and vector drawing, but what I didn’t realize is that you have to also have an Adobe Illustrator subscription to be able to export your finished files as vectors! I’ve had a Fresco subscription for about a year now and I’m still waiting for them to deliver the symmetry drawing & brush creation features they’ve been promising for longer than that. Even while working on one of the most recent iPad Pro models, some of the brushes are laggy, some to the point that you have to wait for them to catch up to continue your work. So far no update has improved the usability of those brushes. Adobe on a subscription model can’t seem to provide the kind of basics that Procreate can for a one-time fee of about $10. The brushes are smoother, you can use a bigger canvas, symmetry drawing works great, you can create your own brushes, etc. Adobe is a bigger company collecting more money than Procreate could ever dream of, and yet they fall behind in the basics. Vector drawing is a waste of time if you can’t export your file without an additional monthly fee for Illustrator. I was trying to be patient in hopes that Fresco would give us a bit more for the money, but I’m pretty disappointed with their lack of progress. Due to poor brush performance, I stopped bothering with it.

Dyun27, Dec 02, 2022

Great with a huge BUT WHERE ARE THE EXPORTS

I love Adobe products and have relied on this company for all of my professional career. The fact that they would take the time to flesh out a “Vector Based” platform and not include Vector File Format Exports is beyond me. You only have the option to export as rasterized files or send to Illustrator ** HUGE CAVEAT ** on desktop. What is the point of spending all of your time with the limited selection of “Vector Brushes” if you can’t finish the file in the same platform? The reason I am giving this 3 Stars is because it does have potential to be fantastic. This is ONLY if Adobe adds in vector file export options. Ideally, they would add in SVG, EPS, and Ai file export options with full functionality. For artists who are reliant on a tablet, mainly iPad Pro, and cannot afford to buy a new laptop this will not work for them if they are trying to create package ready VECTOR files for clients. Which if I understand the brand identity for Adobe Fresco, was the main purpose. If this matters to anyone, I am 28 and this is the first review I have ever posted on any platform. I am an understanding person who loves a good beta testing platform, but we are out of beta and I am tired of spending 10x the effort trying to get my hard work of Fresco vector files into an actual vector format.

fromadesigner, Aug 07, 2021

Not user-friendly

This app is not ANYWHERE near as user-friendly as Adobe Draw was. The only reason I installed it in the first place was because Draw was discontinued and merged with this one. I thought this would be fine because all of my old files from Adobe Draw were carried over to this app, but when I went to continue a project I was previously working on, the features were completely different and much more difficult to navigate than Adobe Draw ever was. For example, you can't easily use the color picker tool on a single layer without selecting all the other layers you have created, meaning you can't easily create other layers to begin with. The double tap features from Adobe Draw are also completely gone, so if you want to single out or access certain options on layers, you have to go through an entire toolbar to do so. In summary, it's WAY more complicated and essentially a lot less user-friendly. In the end, I made a single mistake on one layer that ended up compromising an entire project, because I couldn't properly merge or un-merge the layers I was working in. Which means I'm now going to have to start over from scratch.I don't know what the purpose was for transitioning Adobe Draw to Adobe Fresco, but I wish we had the option to change over instead of being forced to use this app instead, since it ruined all of my progress on an important piece of work.

Kaletbh, Jan 12, 2022

Description

Adobe Fresco is a free drawing and painting app designed for artists of all skill levels. Built specially for iPad with Apple Pencil and iPhone, Fresco offers a wide variety of brushes to help you create your next masterpiece. Create beautiful digital art with three types of brushes: • Live Brushes: Paint with watercolors and oils that blossom, blend, smear, and smudge just like the real thing. • Pixel brushes: Experiment with world-class Photoshop brushes (.abr) that mimic mediums like charcoal, pastel, and more. • Vector brushes: Create crisp lines for designs that can scale to any size.

Canvas or a sketch pad, watercolor or oils – Fresco has you covered. Easily paste reference images from your clipboard to trace and practice your form. Use our dynamic motion tools or show off your process with family and friends by exporting a timelapse video. Discover transforming effects like Liquify. Adobe Fresco reimagines essential tools for illustrators, including modernized selection and masking with a flexible UI so you can draw faster and without distractions. Brushes and projects follow you across devices so you can work wherever inspiration strikes. Subscribe to the premium version of Fresco to access thousands of premium brushes, fonts, shapes and increased cloud storage. FREE FEATURES • Brush variety — Paint with 50+ Photoshop paint brushes, vector brushes, and exclusive Live Brushes. Use built-in smudge brushes for easy blending as well as a set of pixel and vector eraser brushes. • Professional-level tools — Create like a pro with powerful tools for drawing and painting including selections, masking, unlimited layers, and layer groups. • Multicolor eyedrop — Pick up the elements of any piece of artwork to paint with multiple colors at once using any pixel brush or Live Brush. • Recolor your artwork — Photoshop-like adjustment layers allow you to easily test and apply changes to brightness, hue/saturation, and color balance. • Time-lapse — Export a video that replays the creation of your artwork from start to finish. • Magic wand, 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. • Motion tools — Adding motion to your artwork is as easy as drawing a stroke. Create an animation frame by frame or with motion paths for a GIF or MP4 movie file. • 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, create natural-looking perspective artwork or create perspective from an imported photo. • Share your artwork — Export in popular formats like PNG, JPG and layered PSD files. • 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 those finishing touches. • Sketch and Draw migration — Access your Adobe Photoshop Sketch and Adobe Illustrator Draw projects the first time you sign into Fresco. PREMIUM FEATURES • An expanded library of 1,000+ brushes • Access to over 1000+ premium fonts for use in Fresco • Seasonal brush releases from Illustration evangelist Kyle T. Webster • Ability to import brushes (ABR files) • Increased Creative Cloud storage Terms & Conditions: Your use of this application is governed by the Adobe General Terms of Use http://www.adobe.com/go/terms_linkfree_en and the Adobe Privacy Policy http://www.adobe.com/go/privacy_policy_linkfree_en Do not sell or share my personal information: www.adobe.com/go/ca-rights-linkfree