Adobe Celebrates Five Years of Fresco with Powerful New Updates, Making Digital Drawing and Painting Accessible for All

Adobe announces that Adobe Fresco, the pro digital painting and drawing app, is now available for free to all users, celebrating its five-year anniversary with a host of new updates that empower creators of all levels. Since its launch in November 2019, Fresco has delivered 120 features across more than 50 releases, building a global community of millions of users. Now, everyone can access Fresco’s powerful tools and extensive library of over a thousand-pixel brushes, fostering creativity for professionals and hobbyists alike.

Powerful tools that transform digital art

Adobe Fresco empowers creators to express one of the earliest forms of creativity using state-of-the-art tools, reimagining basic drawing and painting techniques with thousands of professionally designed digital brushes that feel like the real thing. A modern drawing and painting app built for the latest touch and stylus devices, Fresco offers a variety of brushes and advanced tools, allowing creators of all experience levels to combine vector and raster content to create their next masterpiece.

Over the past five years Fresco has radically transformed digital art through innovations that empower creators to streamline their workflows and enhance their creativity with analog techniques reimagined for touch and stylus devices.

• Live oil and watercolor brushes, vector brushes, and thousands of pixel brushes
• The latest advancements in touch and stylus technology with haptic feedback, tilt, barrel-roll, and squeeze support for Apple Pencil
• Cutting-edge motion features that make it easy to add eye-catching movement to artwork in seconds
• The user-friendly symmetry tool, which ensures precision and faster creation of complex compositions
• A vector trimmer to quickly remove intersecting vector strokes and clean up line art
• The paint inside tool option to fill an enclosed area without going outside the lines

Fresco makes it simple for anyone who sketches or storyboards as part of their workflow to seamlessly access their artwork in the rich tools they know and love, such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.

The app is like a digital art supply closet that has everything you need to meet industry standards and bring your vision to life with a range of brushes for a variety of mediums, including raster, vector, and live brushes. It also provides next-level motion tools that allow you to add eye-catching movement to any illustration in seconds and get your artwork noticed.

Why creators — hobbyists and professionals — prefer Fresco

Creators, designers and illustrators love both the creative capabilities of Fresco and its workflow benefits — the time savings, process efficiencies, and ease of use. They love not having to toggle across different apps and wasting time airdropping, exporting, and downloading. And they love that, unlike other digital painting apps, Fresco is free.

Drawing is a foundational artistic medium and often how people find their creative passion early in life. As a free app that’s intuitive and fun for anyone to use, Fresco is perfect for aspiring creators and professionals alike.

Creatives Share Their Fresco Experiences

Creators around the world have found Adobe Fresco indispensable in their creative processes:

• Wooden Wave, collaborating under the name Wooden Wave, Matthew and Roxanne Ortiz are a husband-and-wife art duo based in Hawaii who specialize in murals. They use Fresco from start to finish in their creative process — from sketch thumbnails and design revisions to client updates and final delivery — whether the murals are physical or digital.
• Gaetan DeSimone, is a senior motion designer for Nickelodeon who also illustrates on the side, making gifs, tutorials, and more. He uses Fresco as an animation software both in his day job and his personal work, and what he likes most about it is using the motion tools to create reactionary animations — whether it’s for SpongeBob or some other character.
• Chris Piascik, spends a lot of his time drawing. A professional illustrator for the last 15 years, when he’s not drawing for clients like the Cartoon Network and Nike, he’s drawing on his iPad for fun. “There’s so many things I love about Fresco,” Piascik says. “I love the experience of drawing on the iPad and the whole interface. It’s so much less convoluted than other apps. Everything is just much more streamlined.

Elevate your creative journey

Adobe is inspired by the stories of creators like Piascik, DeSimone, and the Ortizes and we’re committed to continuing to innovate in digital drawing and painting. Whether you’re brand new to drawing and painting, a student aspiring to become a creative pro or you’re already in your dream career as an illustrator, animator, or graphic designer, check out Adobe Fresco and rediscover the joy of drawing and painting.