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Adobe Launches 'Fresco' Painting and Drawing App for iPad

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Adobe today announced the launch of Fresco, its new painting and drawing app designed for the iPad.

Adobe Fresco (formerly Project Gemini) is designed to allow artists to create professional quality drawings, but the interface has been created with simplicity in mind so anyone can use it.

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Adobe Fresco features infinitely scalable vector brushes, adaptable Photoshop brushes, and Live Brushes that are powered by Adobe's machine learning and artificial intelligence engine, Adobe Sensei.

The Adobe Sensei-powered brushes are meant to recreate the experience of painting with oils or watercolors right on the display of the iPad, so it's like painting with real-life materials.

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There are thousands of brushes to play with in Adobe Fresco, and Adobe has built in intuitive tools for selections, masking, and more.

Adobe's blog has a series of examples of the kids of artwork that can be created using Fresco's range of brushes, including oil brushes, watercolor brushes, photoshop brushes mimicking crayons, ink pens, foliage, acrylic paint and tons more, and vector brushes for creating infinitely scaleable art.

Adobe says that in celebration of the 2019 Big Draw Festival, Apple retail stores are offering free art sessions where participants can try Fresco for themselves and take part in fun drawing activities.

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Adobe Fresco creations are compatible with Photoshop, which means files can be transferred back and forth seamlessly between Fresco and Photoshop, plus for Creative Cloud subscribers, all files, brushes, colors, and content libraries are integrated.

Creative Cloud users can download Fresco for free, and it is included in all Adobe Creative Cloud plans and the Adobe Photoshop-only plan, but it is not included in the CC Photography Plan that includes Photoshop and Lightroom.

A freemium version of Adobe Fresco is available for non-Creative Cloud users with many of the same features, but access to brushes is limited and high-resolution files can't be exported.

A standalone $9.99 per month plan is available for those who don't have a Creative Cloud subscription but want to unlock all of the Adobe Fresco features. More information is available on Adobe's website.

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Adobe really needs to get their act together on their pricing model. There are already so many amazing sketching/drawing apps for the iPad, I can't imagine why anyone would pay a subscription fee for this, let alone an exorbitant one. Personally I'll stick with Procreate and Tayasui Sketches, not to mention Affinity Photo, all of which together cost substantially less than this subscription.
 
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What is all with this subscription model everyone is adopting for everything? I can understand for NetFlix or streaming music where new contents come and you expect to watch new contents and movies. Software is a different thing, I might be happy with a set of features with a one-time payment for years. Charge for a major upgrade that I totally agree. I can understand DropBox subscription, I use their service every day with them maintaining my files online. I mean, that's how rest of the world works. I buy a car and drive every day without paying anything to the maker. Unless I decide to buy a new model. Same goes with phone, table, chairs, house etc. Just for software, they want us to tie in. I also don't support one-time payment for life. I mean, you can't expect someone to keep working for rest of his life updating for free. Charge for a major update.
 
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“Launches” or “prelaunches?” Looks like it is not actually available for download until tomorrow.

Weird that it is included in the photoshop plan but not the photography plan. I have the photo plan and an illustrator subscription. If this isn’t included that would be pretty annoying given what I already pay adobe each month.
 
Surely photoshop should be next from Adobe! Let’s hope the almost year wait since the presentation will be worth it. Super excited to be able to edit and open full PSDs on the iPad.
 
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JamonBull said:
Ok cool. And where’s Photoshop?
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Still in beta, got an invitation to try it just last week.
I bet it’ll be launched in November at the AdobeMax conference, and I have a feeling Apple will be there too, like last year, with new iPad Pro models.
 
RobPeachCreative said:
Surely photoshop should be next from Adobe! Let’s hope the almost year wait since the presentation will be worth it. Super excited to be able to edit and open full PSDs on the iPad.
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Or you could use Affinity Photo and its a one time price. Plus in many ways its actually better than photoshop. Reads and saves all sorts of file types.

I have little faith in adobe delivering on Photoshop for iPad. Lots of missing features they confirmed will be added later....stuff already available in Affinity Photo
 
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jonnyb098 said:
Or you could use Affinity Photo and its a one time price. Plus in many ways its actually better than photoshop. Reads and saves all sorts of file types.

I have little faith in adobe delivering on Photoshop for iPad. Lots of missing features they confirmed will be added later....stuff already available in Affinity Photo
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I’ve been tempted to try Affinity but sceptical on if my PSDs will import on the iPad. If they port across with no issues then I’ll buy it straight away, it’s almost a no brainer but when you have hundreds if not thousands of PSDs that you template from then this is where Adobe have you I guess?
 
cbandes said:
Adobe really needs to get their act together on their pricing model. There are already so many amazing sketching/drawing apps for the iPad, I can't imagine why anyone would pay a subscription fee for this, let alone an exorbitant one. Personally I'll stick with Procreate and Tayasui Sketches, not to mention Affinity Photo, all of which together cost substantially less than this subscription.
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I suspect relatively few people will subscribe to this stand-alone, rather they will access it via their existing Creative Cloud subscriptions. One can argue about the CC model, but if you are doing anything that makes money from these apps, the cost is absolutely inconsequential. For students it’s just $20/month for everything. Again, inconsequential compared to your overall expenses.

lunarworks said:
$10/month? I think I'll just invest in some pens and paper.
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The funny thing is that real physical art materials are actually quite expensive compared to their digital alternatives.
 
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RobPeachCreative said:
I’ve been tempted to try Affinity but sceptical on if my PSDs will import on the iPad. If they port across with no issues then I’ll buy it straight away, it’s almost a no brainer but when you have hundreds if not thousands of PSDs that you template from then this is where Adobe have you I guess?
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Give it a try and see if it works. If not just request a refund from the App Store.
 
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zhenya said:
The funny thing is that real physical art materials are actually quite expensive compared to their digital alternatives.
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True. Especially the artist grade stuff. (I've been eyeing a set of Schminke Horadam 24 watercolor half-pans at £239!!) But then after you paid for them you own them forever. Stop paying the Adobe maffia and they won't even let you access your own work. Imagine that in the real world. You are forced to rent your brushes and easel and once you stop paying, not only does the store take them back, but they also take any paintings you did with them away and lock them in their vault. Subscription only services suck.
 
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Lone Deranger said:
True. Especially the artist grade stuff. (I've been eyeing a set of Holbein Horadam 24 watercolor half-pans at £239!!) But then after you paid for them you own them forever. Stop paying the Adobe maffia and they won't even let you access your own work. Imagine that in the real world. You are forced to rent your brushes and easel and once you stop paying, not only does the store take them back, but they also take any paintings you did with them away and lock them in their vault. Subscription only services suck.
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Paint and paper and plenty of other material requires constant replenishment. Decent oil paint is often $20-30/ounce, per color! Not to mention the cost of decent paper or canvas.

The reality is that over the long term, pay-once software models are not sustainable.

Adobe doesn't own any of my creations. I'm not required to store them with Adobe, and can place them anywhere I want at any time.
 
My only interest in Fresco is whether or not it really breaks new ground with the media simulation vs apps that are already available.
 
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Blackstick said:
I wish I had an ounce of artistic talent to do this app any justice.
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Lol...practice makes perfect....don’t give up
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jonnyb098 said:
Give it a try and see if it works. If not just request a refund from the App Store.
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They are offering a free 6 month trial. Just sign up via app store then cancel immediately. You will still have access for the next 6 months
 
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