Adobe Fresco for Beginners: How to Get Started in 2024

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Have you ever wondered how to get started with Adobe Fresco? As someone who’s used (and LOVED) Procreate for years, I made the switch to Fresco and haven’t looked back.
Is Adobe Fresco better than Procreate? I personally vote yes. Please grab some coffee, your ipad, and let’s get started. In this video I will go through all of tools of Adobe Fresco in under 1 hour. Let’s go!
Please skip around as needed
Chapters:
00:00 - 03:00 Intro
03:01 - 04:33 Fresco Home Screen
04:34 - 06:08 Document size options (breakdown)
06:09 - 07:35 Pixel (or Raster) Brushes
07:36 - 10:31 Smoothing in brushes (not a lag, a feature!)
10:32 - 14:00 Live Watercolor Brushes (f*cking impressive)
14:01 - 16:55 Live Oil Paint Brushes
16:56 - 19:50 Mixing Oil Paint & Watercolor Paint (impossible IRL)
19:51 - 21:07 Live Brush Pressure Sensitivity & Canvas Textures (cool feature)
21:08 - 23:24 Vector Brushes (Vectors vs. Pixel Brushes)
23:25 - 25:43 Eraser Tool
25:44 - 26:05 Brush Memory
26:06 - 29:42 Smudge Tool (Texturizing & Blending w/ comparisons on wet & dry media)
29:43 - 32:40 Transform Tools (these are neat)
32:41 - 33:40 Lasso Tool
33:41 - 34:34 Selection Tools
34:35 - 36:24 Paint Bucket
36:25 - 36:51 Shapes
36:52 - 37:50 Text Tool
37:51 - 40:24 Eyedropper (Single Swatch &Multi Swatch + Making Your Own Multi Swatch Brush)
40:25 - 43:50 Image Tool & Layers (for Reference & Tracing)
43:52 - 48:09 Layers, Layer Properties, Perspective Grids & Adjustment Layers
48:10 - 52:56 Motion (Frame by Frame & Motion Paths) & Drawing Guides
52:57 - 54:24 Timelapse & Motion Export
54:25 - 54:52 Closing Thoughts
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Пікірлер: 28

@GinnyStLawrence 3 ай бұрын

Grab a cuppa coffee & grab your iPads, let’s create!! Anyone else using Fresco? Drop a comment and let me know what you’d like to see in future videos! ❤

@shermcohen Ай бұрын

Wonderfully clear and concise…and super-HELPFUL! Thanks so much for helping me jump right in to Fresco without wasting hours aimlessly poking around.

@GinnyStLawrence Ай бұрын

You are so welcome! It’s a great program that doesn’t get enough praise for its capabilities. Enjoy!

@ananyabhargaw4215 26 күн бұрын

The most helpful video for starting with fresco!

@GinnyStLawrence 26 күн бұрын

So glad it was helpful! Thank you for the helpful feedback

@championslayers 3 ай бұрын

OMG, I can't believe this. I discovered (and subscribed) to this channel yesterday and immediately started hoping for a video like this and low and behold it gets posted the NEXT DAY! Looking forward to the Fresco vs ProCreate comparison video too as I use ProCreate.

@GinnyStLawrence 3 ай бұрын

Welcome aboard! 😊 Excited to be putting out more iPad, and drawing/digital animation content soon!

@jonisauers5130 3 ай бұрын

Awesome advice, thank you!!!

@GinnyStLawrence 3 ай бұрын

Glad you found it helpful!

@larryiscreating 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for this video!🙏

@GinnyStLawrence 3 ай бұрын

My pleasure! Fresco is an awesome program

@samantha4131 20 күн бұрын

Thank you so much! This video was so incredibly helpful!!!

@GinnyStLawrence 20 күн бұрын

Rad!! Thank you for the sweet compliment and I’m happy it was helpful! Fresco is awesome!

@sarahjanser 2 ай бұрын

Oh wow I am sure I will enjoy this a lot. Thanks for sharing your insights! I have been working on procreate but I would like to switch because I love the idea to have all my professional work in the adobe cloud for better sync and further processing.

@GinnyStLawrence 2 ай бұрын

It is far superior (IMO) than procreate! I love simple programs, which drew me to procreate. The reality is Fresco, though more capable, is equally as simple to get the hang of. Plus the added benefits of connecting to Adobe CC is unparalleled. I’m looking forward to doing more Fresco videos (that are not an hour long. Haha) 😂

@HangMinh-ux9tz Ай бұрын

Thank you a lottttt ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@GinnyStLawrence Ай бұрын

My pleasure! Happy you found it helpful ❤️

@kle1701 2 ай бұрын

Well.... This makes me want to take the plunge and investigate Fresco. I watched another video a month back that discussed the differences of Procreate and Fresco and decided NOT to follow the 'shiny new thing' path of Fresco and stick with Procreate. But, your video is so informative and makes me want to to give Fresco a try. I already use Photoshop and Illustrator for tidying up my watercolor paintings, so it will be nice to have an app that has the same tools that I am used to. Thanks for the video!

@GinnyStLawrence 2 ай бұрын

I too resisted the urge as I loved the simplicity of procreate, but fresco beats it in every possibly way (in my opinion). I’ll be publishing more videos on Fresco in the coming weeks. There is just so much goodness there, and they are releasing new features constantly!

@jenniferevans1323 2 ай бұрын

Yes please

@GinnyStLawrence 2 ай бұрын

😊

@marandamcguire2106 Ай бұрын

Is there a way to make a brush not taper? If I wanted a brush that is a consistent size all the time.

@GinnyStLawrence Ай бұрын

You can play with “taper settings” in vector brushes, and you can play with “stylus pressure” and “control” for your pixel brushes to achieve no taper. Both adjustments can be found under the brush settings menu. For the hard round pixel brush for example, you can go into “Shape Dynamics” > “Control” (default set to “pen pressure”) and turn that setting to “None”. This will give you the same brush start to finish, regardless of how much pressure you apple to the screen. Be sure to save your brush settings once you’ve made adjustments to your liking so you can reuse it in the future. Hope this helps!

@Emkaylab Ай бұрын

Pls I want to ask am a graphic designer do you think fresco is a good replacement for illustrator

@GinnyStLawrence Ай бұрын

It depends on your workflow. If you don’t prefer illustrator, start in fresco and do all the heavy work there, then finish in illustrator. Fresco supports vector so bouncing between the two works seamlessly.