To get full access to its entire feature set it must be purchased as a standalone app for $10 a month with the first six-months free, assuming you'd buy it before the end of the year. Fresco for iPad is available for free to use, but with a reduced toolset and output limited to the resolution of the iPad’s screen.

Before we get to the details, we must clarify Adobe’s pricing for the software. While we are preparing our in-depth review of Adobe’s answer to Procreate (which is considered by most the best illustration tool on the iPad), we’d like to take the opportunity to share our first impressions using Fresco.Īs we’ve already reported in our feature preview, Fresco’s most notable feature is its combination of raster, vector, and Live Brushes in one seamless interface, extended with the option for existing Photoshop brushes to be imported and used alongside the new live and static brushes exclusive to Fresco.

digital EPIGRAPHY was part of Adobe’s beta program, extensively testing the software in the past months, trying out a few different scenarios when such an app might be useful for digital documentation.

Painting in Fresco behaves and feels like painting with real brushes, mimicking the way paint mixes and dries on real paper.įresco, Adobe’s next generation drawing and painting tool, recently launched on iPad, promising a creative experience with unprecedented level of faithfulness to traditional oil and watercolor paints.

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