Adobe has announced that its Fresco drawing and painting app is now free for all users.
"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."
Adobe Fresco Features
Take your artwork to the next level by adding motion with Fresco's suite of animation and motion path tools. Explore frame-by-frame animation and revolutionary motion paths. Draw and paint with rotational and reflective symmetry guides. Paste photos from your clipboard or your camera roll to practice your form. Show off your process by exporting a time-lapse video of your process. Explore hundreds of tutorials and inspiration pieces from the Fresco Community. Plus, brushes and projects follow you across devices so you can work wherever and whenever inspiration strikes.
• Brush variety — Paint with thousands of pixel brushes, vector brushes, and exclusive Live Brushes. You can also import your favorite Photoshop brushes as .abr files
• Unlimited layers — Create like a pro and discover infinite possibilities with unlimited layers.
• Symmetry — Draw stunning symmetrical artwork quickly and easily with new reflective & rotational guides.
• Snap to shape – Hold down at the end of your stroke to snap a perfect circle, polygon, line, or arc into place.
• Paint inside mode – Speed up coloring by constraining your brush strokes to your line art.
• Color palettes – Fresco automatically creates a color palette when you import any artwork.
• Recolor your artwork — Photoshop-like adjustment layers allow you to easily test and apply changes to brightness, hue/saturation, and color balance.
• Text — Add stylish text to your artwork using Adobe's expansive collection of free fonts.
• Multicolor swatches — Pick up the elements of any piece of artwork to paint with multiple colors at once using any pixel brush or Live Brush.
• Motion tools — Adding motion to your artwork is as easy as drawing a stroke. Create an animation using frame by frame or motion paths for a GIF or MP4 movie file.
• 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.
• 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 and create perspective grids 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 finishing touches.
You can download Adobe Fresco from the App Store for free.
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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."
Adobe Fresco Features
Take your artwork to the next level by adding motion with Fresco's suite of animation and motion path tools. Explore frame-by-frame animation and revolutionary motion paths. Draw and paint with rotational and reflective symmetry guides. Paste photos from your clipboard or your camera roll to practice your form. Show off your process by exporting a time-lapse video of your process. Explore hundreds of tutorials and inspiration pieces from the Fresco Community. Plus, brushes and projects follow you across devices so you can work wherever and whenever inspiration strikes.
• Brush variety — Paint with thousands of pixel brushes, vector brushes, and exclusive Live Brushes. You can also import your favorite Photoshop brushes as .abr files
• Unlimited layers — Create like a pro and discover infinite possibilities with unlimited layers.
• Symmetry — Draw stunning symmetrical artwork quickly and easily with new reflective & rotational guides.
• Snap to shape – Hold down at the end of your stroke to snap a perfect circle, polygon, line, or arc into place.
• Paint inside mode – Speed up coloring by constraining your brush strokes to your line art.
• Color palettes – Fresco automatically creates a color palette when you import any artwork.
• Recolor your artwork — Photoshop-like adjustment layers allow you to easily test and apply changes to brightness, hue/saturation, and color balance.
• Text — Add stylish text to your artwork using Adobe's expansive collection of free fonts.
• Multicolor swatches — Pick up the elements of any piece of artwork to paint with multiple colors at once using any pixel brush or Live Brush.
• Motion tools — Adding motion to your artwork is as easy as drawing a stroke. Create an animation using frame by frame or motion paths for a GIF or MP4 movie file.
• 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.
• 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 and create perspective grids 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 finishing touches.
You can download Adobe Fresco from the App Store for free.
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