Adobe Fresco 3 is a digital drawing and painting program designed to meet the needs of professional artists, illustrators, and designers. It combines the capabilities of raster and vector graphics, while also offering unique live brushes that imitate the behavior of real materials such as oil and watercolor. Fresco is a great tool for both sketching and full-fledged artistic work. Moreover, Fresco has quite advanced animation tools.

The application is able to accurately reproduce the texture and behavior of traditional art materials. Live brushes allow paints to mix directly on the virtual canvas, creating realistic gradients and shades. They function thanks to complex physical models of the interaction of pigments and liquid. You can use watercolor and oil paints, mixing or diluting them to the desired consistency. Artificial intelligence technologies implemented in the program try to recreate the feeling that the artist is working with a real canvas and brushes.

The user has a large selection of raster and vector brushes, as well as more than 1000 tools, including a set from the collection of the famous illustrator Kyle T. Webster. Vector tools provide smooth lines and the ability to edit without losing quality.

Standard raster brushes from Photoshop are also supported. Modern drawing functionality will help you to refine minor flaws, allowing you to draw some objects programmatically, rather than manually. In Adobe Fresco, you can use various visual effects, advanced selection tools, layer masking, etc. Transformation functions are available that allow you to change the shape and size of objects. In addition, the application interface can be configured for right- or left-handed drawing. Compatibility with styluses such as Microsoft Surface Pen and Wacom is provided, which also helps with precise and natural drawing.

Advantages

  • Free version with basic functions.
  • Hybrid work with raster and vector graphics.
  • Realistic behavior of live brushes.
  • Integration with the Adobe ecosystem.
  • Support for working with styluses and touch screens.
  • Flexibility of settings and a rich selection of tools.