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Adobe Fresco
The free <anchor>Adobe Fresco</anchor> is an easy-to-use program to get you started with painting. You can choose between three brush types — pixel brush, interactive brush, and vector brush — which you can adjust in terms of color, size, ink flow, and smoothing.
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# Your favorite drawing and painting space. Now anyplace.

Scan the QR code to get the free app.

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## Get in touch with your canvas.

Built for the latest stylus and touch devices — now including iPhones — Adobe Fresco brings together the world’s largest collection of vector and raster brushes, plus revolutionary new live brushes, to deliver a completely natural painting and drawing experience. For artists, illustrators, animators, sketchers, and anyone who wants to discover, or rediscover, the joy of drawing and painting.

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### Brushes with brilliance.

Work with watercolors and oils that blossom and blend at your touch, and use vector and raster brushes on the same canvas. Adobe Fresco gives you the world’s largest and most advanced selection of brushes, including thousands from Adobe Photoshop and celebrated master Kyle T. Webster.

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Harness the power of Adobe Sensei with live brushes that look, feel, and act just like the real thing. Paint with watercolors that bloom and bleed in real time. Swirl and smudge creamy oils on your canvas and build up paint thickness for a 3D effect.

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### Artwork. Now a lot less work.

We’ve made essential illustration tools faster and better for stylus and touch, including Wacom tablets and the iPad. Easily isolate parts of a layer and turn selections into masks. Customize your UI. And work in full-screen mode to eliminate distractions.

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### The world is your studio.

Fresco uses cloud documents, so you can start a project on your iPad or iPhone and finish it on your desktop. Your work automatically syncs to the cloud. Plus, with Creative Cloud integration your brushes, fonts, and Adobe Stock and Library assets are just a few clicks or taps away.

### Take Fresco further with Photoshop on the iPad.

Adobe Fresco and Photoshop on the iPad are made for each other. Use them together to combine images, retouch artwork, add text, and create with layers. You can work on your projects in either app — anything you create is auto-saved in the cloud when you’re online.

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## See what new can do.

Adobe Fresco is always getting better, with new features rolling out regularly. Here are some of the latest updates.

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### Liquify effects

Create distortion effects with the Liquify tool, which lets you push, pull, pucker, inflate, or exaggerate any area of your drawing for looks ranging from subtle to over-the-top.

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### Magic Wand color tool

Change colors without having to trace an outline. The Magic Wand automatically highlights colors that match the ones you select so you can apply them to other parts of your image.

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### Multicolor swatches

Paint dramatic 3D strokes in Fresco using built-in multicolor swatches, or create your own swatches from anything on your canvas.

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### Motion path effects

Use new Grow/Shrink controls to change the size of your artwork as it moves along a path, then move it back and forth along its axis with the Sway control.

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## Discover more Creative Cloud apps for design.

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