Adobe makes digital drawing and painting accessible for all with new Fresco updates

Adobe has announced that Adobe Fresco, the pro digital painting and drawing app, is now available for free to all users, celebrating its five-year anniversary with a host of new updates that empower creators of all levels. Since its launch in November 2019, Fresco has delivered 120 features across more than 50 releases, building a global community of millions of users. Now, everyone can access Fresco’s powerful tools and extensive library of over a thousand-pixel brushes, fostering creativity for professionals and hobbyists alike.

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.

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.