Adobe really REALLY messed up by not making it much clearer how free / cheep Fresco is.

One trick to get brushes, just trial fresco for a couple days and add all the brushes you want, even photoshop ones, after trial ends the brushes stay in the program

Hi Brad-One of the absolute BEST features when drawing vector lines is the ability to easily “trim” excess/overlapping lines. This will make pefectly intersecting lines. Try it out. With a vector brush tool, draw a bunch of lines that overlap. Now, while holding the modifier button “outer ring”-(slide your finger directly up or down while on the modifier button and hold)-then, with your finger (or apple pencil,) just “swipe” across the excess-overlapped lines, to delete them. Bam, you have perfectly intersected lines. Note: the lines have to be vector, and they have to be separate lines. Meaning, for instance, if you drew a quick circle that’s ends overlap, you can’t trim the overlapped part without deleting the whole thing. Having said that though, the technique does make a quick way of quickly deleting any specific vector lines as well. I was in on the Beta, and it took Adobe a good while to make vector lines like these “convert” cleanly, without a bunch of tiny artifacts, but, finally, it works beautifully. GREAT way to create fluid, tight, line work!

… and don’t forget about the incredible Multicolor painting abilities with pixel brushes and live brushes - paint with as many colors as you want on your brush simultaneously by selecting any area of your canvas while holding down the Touch Shortcut. This doesn’t exist anywhere else (except in Photoshop with the Mixer Brushes + eyedropper).

Also, Fresco's oil brushes, when applied to a single layer, appear to use realistic color mixing, not RGB or CMY mixing. For example, blue + yellow = green, like it does when you mix real paint. Procreate uses RGB mixing, and so does Photoshop, that is, blue + yellow = grey.

My first drawing is in fresco because I have Adobe photography package for my work. I just started my drawing on tablet stuff and fresco working really well. I just bought procreate and still adapting to it. One note is the manga brush on fresco are great, couldn’t find one on procreate yet, I know we can create and customize but that just a plus for fresco for providing that on the get go. Edit: stupid of me, fresco paid version is NOT included in the photography package lol so I’ve been using the free version, so I’m not using the comic brush but the basic inking brush haha glad that I just bought procreate.

Great review! I agee with another commenter. Adobe really didn't do this app any favors by not promoting it. That fast animation was also pretty impressive.

I really like fresco, free version really have everything for beginners or intermediate artists

Fresco is actually pretty awesome! I just wish it was on MacOS though. I would love to use it on my Mac desktop.

Someone’s been watching Chris Piascik!

Great stuff Brad, loved that bit on fly/man animation. Never knew Fresco can do that.

I'm using fresco for vector drawing for the past 3 years.

Omg i just downloaded it, it looks Amazing, especially the live brushes and the Amazing animation tools!

I'm downloading now. That little animation demonstration reminded me of making (or attempting to make) animations in Power Point so long ago. I have CSP but this is so clean I have to give it a whirl. Thanks for the video.

I can't wait to try the animation tools!

You can see all of the functions of the Touch Modifier (the white circle floating on the screen) by tapping on the little Question Mark icon in the top right menu of your screen (along with a ton of other great Help/Learn content). 👍

I've used Fresco on iPad more than Procreate due to the limited canvas size. I have an ancient iPad gen 6 so it left like 5 layers when I worked on a 6k canvas. Fresco let me set unlimited canvas sizes which is so much better. I rather draw on the big canvas with a bit of laggy every now and then than drawing on a small canvas just for smoother zooming. I can't use the small one for print, that's the point. The sacrifice for 10% better workflow isn't worth enough for me.

I may have to try this Fresco out! It makes me excited to see all these options!

I love fresco! I find their brushes superior to procreate's default brushes. Takes a bit getting used to the interface!

If I have Illustrator open on my Macbook and ask Fresco to open it in Illustrator it just opens it, almost instantly. I would call that seamless :) Fresco is great

I used to use this for making “animations”. I used that frame by frame feature in it that I thought was really cool. At the end, I had to make separate PNGs and stitch them together in like Davinci Resolve or smth (I now use Adobe Animate)

With the help of the perspective grid and the animation and path tool I manage to finish all of my animation assessments before the deadline ❤

Nice. I haven’t used fresco much since it’s release. Was kind of basic at first. Looks like it has some new features I should check out.

Love your reviews 😀

Thank you for sharing your testing. I was curious about it.

Fresco is actually a super awesome program/ app. I’ve been using it for a bit and it’s great. I just wish it was available for MacOS.. seems silly at this point it’s still not available. I read somewhere it was because MacOS was lacking some touch functionality, or such? I hope at this years Adobe Max, they announce it for Mac.

I'm on Windows (with a Huion Display Tablet). No "Touch" functions, but still good. Didja notice the ability to "erase past intersection" feature with the Vector tool? Used to be, only Clip Studio Paint had that feature. It's still much better implemented in CSP, but it's still good to see. I got Fresco mainly for the watercolor features.

I use fresco just cause it's the only program where tilt works the way i expect it to. Like the tilt is offset so it feels like using the edge of the brush. Using a pencil in fresco is the best thing ever on my surface. If more programs used tilt like this i would use it way more.

Awesome video ! do you plan on making a video about Inspiroy 2 ? and the difference between Pentech 2.0 and 3.0 ?

After struggling with Procreate and Affinity Designer I switched to Fresco a while ago. Really great for novice artists. Vector is just drawing, no worrying about points, etc. Love Fresco!

I also was surprised at how little is missing from the free version of Fresco, really just the brushes you mentioned and some of the fonts, nothing you can’t manage without. The only thing I couldn’t work out how to do and think there is no way was to add text and make it follow a curve. But Fresco has come a long way, I tried it quite a long time ago and set it aside as not really useful, then recently tried it again and was really surprised.

Thanks for doing this!

Hi Brad, I don’t really use half the products you talk about (an iPad Pro and procreate is all I have) but I really enjoy listening to your reviews.

You know, I'm surprised nobody, not even Clip Studio or Procreate, has tried to get physics like as seen in Fresco working on them. To this day, only Fresco is the only drawing program to have this feature, where the drawing has actual physics and not static layers.

I started checking out Fresco this past weekend. The animation feature is definitely better Procreate. It’s great to be able to animation one layer and elements on different layers.

My only real complaint about Fresco is the poor pixel art support. I'd really like to make sprites on a canvas that's smaller than 100x100 pixels! I also haven't figured out how to make pixel art using the built-in brushes. I'm assuming you could get a good pixel art brush by importing one from Photoshop, but it feels like it shouldn't be a premium ask to get a hard square brush.

Reagrding perspective grids, Krita has a fantastic and very complete set of tools for perspective and is free

Hey Brad! Thanks for your enthusiasm and shared wisdom! Question about Fresco. Can a Fresco pic be imported into Krita or another site that has cymk??

I would have never imagined giving up Procreate for Fresco but I did the combination of the vector brushes, trim feature, animation on different layers better work flow with Illustrator, color palettes. I don't like pattern making in Capture as much as in Affinity Designer but other than that I can do most of my work in Fresco and finish details in Illustrator.

I haven't been on my ipad in a while! Now that I have a desk mount for my cintiq i've fallen back in love with PS lol. Fresco is fun I don't really have need for it though. I don't get the point of it I guess? I'm a graphic designer so I already sub to CC. I've used PS and AI for the ipad and they've improved quite a bit. I actually really like working in them save ipad's bad file management as you mentioned! That yoga laptop is INSANE though. Major wants lol. Dual screens on the go with nice keyboard sign me up! Goofy name though. Love your videos!!

I never got used to Procreate. I just use Fresco all the time! 😊

I'm an illustrator from Pakistan and I use both fresco and Photoshop for my work both come handy when dealing particular stuff

Hi! Great review! Can you also help compare this to something like Affinity Designer? I have the affinity suite(its just cheaper to learn vectors on than adobe illustrator)

Oh man that animation feature!!!

Hey Brad! I recently started using AF and love it. Unfortunately I'm having an issue with Vector Trimming. For some reason, the previous vector paths that I've made are no longer trim-able. Now when I try to trim it, it removed all the paths that are touching each other (95% of my artwork). What really trumps me is that vector trimming works just as its supposed to with new paths that I lay down. This issue has really interrupted the workflow I was enjoying with Fresco. Would you happen to know anything that I'm experiencing? Theres nothing I can find searching online.

Gonna use this to try and paint realistic portraits, I usually use an anime style and I can’t figure out how to make realism look good in digital, but I’m going to try and use the live brushes to make one

I have adobe creative cloud but I haven’t really used fresco maybe I should check it out, I wasn’t aware you could use it on desktop either. Great video, I’ll have to check it out again :)

Is there a way to motion capture the rate of speed of drawing with the Apple Pencil and map that data to a layer property in After Effects?

Hey Brad, do you know how to export animations with a transparent background? It seems neither Fresco or Toonsquid are able to do this, or i can’t figure it out.

I have a Photoshop and Lightroom subscription. I used to only use Adobe Draw then it got canceled. And Adobe Fresco replaced Adobe Draw. I mainly use Procreate now and edit my drawings in Pixelmator and Photoshop after I draw my drawings on physical paper and import the drawing to my iPad to touch up the drawing and then export to the computer for Pixelmator and Photoshop editing.

is there some app for ipad with slide path like in adobe fresco? i really miss it in procreate, this is great you can draw a bird and make it move on your screen and there is only 3-5 frames and they are moving, not frame by frame.

Fresco is an amazing application. I use it every single day on the iPad pro

I think Adobe needs to change their advertisement strategy cuz I see nobody but you talking about how the animation works. When procreate added their animation they explained to the public and also had other artists use. That gave people a clear idea of how it works.

Fresco is actually a really awesome app. What you get in the free version is more than enough for most users, I feel. Love drawing in vector on it, the cloud saving easily allowing jumping between iPad and desktop, the speed and control...not much to complain about here. It doesn't have filters that I can see, and it's missing some small things like symmetry tools (but it's also constantly being updated) but it's a great tool overall. I now do all my line art in Fresco.

I've been using both Fresco and Procreate for a few years now.

Mr. Brad, could you please try making a video on 'drawing on lenovo book 9i'? That'd be kool :D

I love how your facial hair grew grayish white ❤

U should make a review on the acer spin 3 its not that new but it has touch comes with a pen and its a great bought drawing laptop

Hey man. Not sure about what you said about Fresco on the Mac. AFAIK there is no Fresco for the Mac. Just iPad and iPhone on the Apple side.

Ive been using fresco and its amazing im surprised you didnt know

Fresco is a good software but the canvas limitations makes it hard to work with. An 11x17 at 600 ppi psd files won’t open unfortunately. Great video as always.

They also don’t share you can get their entire suite of mobile apps for $14.99 a month (Ps, Fr, Ai, Ru) which gives you full features on iOS. Includes CC storage. Not need to pay for the more expensive CC.

are we getting a review on the lenovo yoga series in terms of art? o.o :)

How are you able to get fresco on Mac

The inability to import brushes is kinda a turn-off but the animation tools look really nice. Still the price for iOS looks amazing! Did I see that right? Is that 9.99 per year. I only wish they had made an Android version.

can you use Adobe Fresco with a wacom 1 tablet?

Never been this excited about animation before😢🎉😊 Why did Adobe keep this from me so long😢😂❤

you don't need touchscreen to draw u can just turn on windows ink and u will get pressure sensitivity even with drawing tablets. No touchscreen required

you can't use any Photoshop brush. if you try to import pixel art brushes it breaks them and adds antialiasing.

I want to like this. But I'm not sure Adobe cares about it. How does it still not have symmetry mode!? They've been promising that feature since launch

The thing that kills it for me is Adobe's strange 2 computer limit. Fresco is great on the ipad, but if I attempt to sign in I have to sign out of my PC at home or my PC at work, which requires my phone. Then when I log back into one of those computers, I have to use my phone again and then log off of the iPad. It's simply too many steps so I just use procreate on the ipad and never close it.

Maybe if it comes out on Android I would check it out.

You missed the most useful function of the modiefier circle: on vector layers you can use a trim eraser that can erase a line up to an intersection, like Clip Studio does on vector layers. Very handy when doing line work.

The thing with Adobe is..they have so many software that you get lost:D

Are you going to do a review of the device used in this video? First time commenter Subscribed for a while

Oh they have vector brushes on the freeeeeeeeeee

I've never had a problem with sending a layered file over airdrop. I think you are doing it wrong.

Well.. it seems (months later) that Fresco has gone totally free of charge! (i cannot find any prices anymore on fresco)

So much user friendly

Nice 🎉

Hello Brad, I've a video request for you. Please review xiaomi pad 6 with their 2nd gen pen. Please Brad, I want to know if it could be good for drawing. Thanks. MI PAD 6 with 2nd Gen Pen.

I think they really don't want you to have it for free because I get notices to get my subscription if I try and download it.

how can i do frames in fresco?

Unfortunately Fresco isnt available for macs yet

The $9.99 a year option may just get me back to using an Adobe product. Looks like a solid app. Adobe's pricing is only thing that has kept me away from their products for 10ish years

You didn’t mention the lag…for me is a dealbreaker.

Why do Apple people think anyone would want "the ipad experience" on Windows?

Please make a video on Xiaomi pad 6.

Looks like a dumbed down version of Clip Studio BUT with a vastly better UI, and free.

i don’t really like fresco on drawing/display tablet with no touchscreen

Hi Brad, just for extra clarity can this app work on ANY windows laptop

My heart loves both apps, Fresco and Procreate. Procreate is much easier though

Now... if only they brought it to Android... to my Z Fold 4 or Tab S8/9

The thumbnail really said: "Fr I Had No Idea" 💀

Too bad us Windows users do have to pay $110 more for exactly the same app as on the iPad. It's the main reason I haven't bought it and of course there's subscription. I like to pay once, own forever and decide my own upgrade path.

So basically another great drawing app that isn't available on android?

How Free version of Fresco work kinda like XD.

We need fresco and other adobe apps for ANDROID!

You really remind me of Gerard Butler 😊 Very handsome man

I read the thumbnail: For real, I had no idea