Adobe Fresco Reviews & Product Details

Well firstly, I'd like to say I used to be a big fan of painting on Photoshop (yes even over tools like Procreate, PaintTool SAI, Krita, etc). So, when I got to know about Fresco, Adobe already grabbed my attention.

What I really love about Fresco is:

-A familiar interface that is very much similar to other Adobe products.

- It has got the Adobe CC integration and the file can be transferred across other design tools such as Photoshop.

- Wide range of personalised brushes (not as many as Procreate though but compared to Ps) which makes the job easy and looks awesome!

- Works smoothly with my non-digital graphic tablet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It isn't very optimized for vector art, making me switch to Adobe Illustrator every time I feel like doing vector. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Integration with Adobe softwares

- The live paint brushes in Fresco are excellent

- No connection with iPad size or model- in fact you can use it on windows devices too Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Worthwile if you have an adobe creative cloud subscription

- It takes a bit of time to get used to the way Fresco is structured

- less intuitive than procreate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very easy to use with intuitive interface. Works fantastically with the Apple Pencil. Tracing photos is easy as can be. Very easy to make patterns quickly. The animation is very easy to do and works great. Easily able to share documents and export different formats for different uses. Many excellent and useful brushes. Working on the iPad is really great. The multiple layers are very easy to use and make for excellent results. the history remembers the work you do and makes it easy to back up if you go down the wrong path. Great access to external sources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some tasks are quite complicated. The iPhone version is not that useful. The files can get quite large. It's quite easy to accidently select the wrong brush when drawing quickly. Occasionally it can undo by accident and then not remember what was done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is so good if you want to paint freely, I think it's perfect to simulate the painting irl. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't like that, precisely as it imitates painting irl, it can be complicated for a new user to understand some things about painting. But i think that's it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

great for graphic designers, it's user-friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

could have more trace options would be helpful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The vector brush option definitely rates this app higher than similar products like procreate. The ability to seamlessly move our sketches into AI from Fresco without losing details and quality makes this product stand out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The brushes are a bit more limited than other program options. I wish there were more controls on specifically the vector brushes for shape and smoothing curves. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love that Adobe Fresco gives pretty realistic brush options - everything from wet mediums on textured canvas to your traditional brush pen for simple lettering. There are tons of options and ways to customize the tools to your liking, which I enjoy because it gives my creations a very recognizable feel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the tools take a bit to figure out and explore, like any other design software. It's a very simple user interface so you have to know what the symbols on each button are for time efficiency. That said, there's not nearly as many functionalities as Illustrator so it's a pretty quick learning curve in my opinion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that it combines the features I had from both Adobe Sketch and Adobe Draw. I have access to both vector and pixel brushes as well as live brushes which was an interesting new feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It made it difficult when I had to reupload my files from both sketch and draw. A good portion didn't upload at first so I had to go through the websitebin order to upload then from the adobe cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't have to clean paint brushes, workspaces, or anything of the sort. I can paint and doodle ideas before going in and creating them on a natural canvas. I can easily create digital paintings as well. I was looking for something to replace Photoshop as my painting and drawing app, which is not entirely made for drawing. The brushes, the physics of ink and paint, everything are excellent points. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Without a Stylus, this is not an experience to like. I recommend having either a tablet with a stylus or a computer with a drawing tablet. Using your finger or mouse doesn't yield the same result. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love being able to create vector illustrations on my iPad! I use Adobe Illustrator for almost all of my design work, so I like to keep everything in vector format. But I also like to relax on the couch and doodle sketches and ideas, or work quickly, on-the-go, in situations where it's not convenient to set up my laptop and spread out with my wacom tablet in order to draw vector illustrations. So, I love working with the apple pencil on my iPad, and Fresco allows me to do that - while creating and editing vector artwork! Hooray. It's awesome. I've enjoyed playing around with ProCreate on the iPad - it's super fun - but it's so much more convenient to use Fresco and work with vectors. When I'm happy with my illustration, I can easily export to Illustrator and it's ready to go. Sometimes I do clean up the points a bit, after I import illustrations from Fresco to Illustrator, but it's SO much simpler than converting pixel images to vector shapes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fresco currently doesn't offer a symmetrical drawing mode, which isn't a big deal but that was one of my favorite fun features to play with in ProCreate and Fresco always says they're going to add that function soon, but it's still not there, so I'm eager to get that option. No big deal, this is kind of a "fluff" feature, it's just fun and I will definitely use it when it's added! Fresco also doesn't show Bezier handles or offer the pen tool like Illustrator has, so you can't work with vector shapes the same way you can in Illustrator. I would love to be able to edit bezier curves on the iPad someday - I know that's a lot to ask and maybe it's just too technical to fit in with Fresco's fun and tactile approach to art-making - but it would be useful for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.