Adobe Fresco

Home Screen

Home screens offer an overview of your work, a selection of video tutorials, and a Bēhance gallery of others’ creations.

Learn Fresco

The Learn panel offers tutorials and help with the app's various tools.

Gallery

This is where you can check out other artists' Fresco creations.

Calligraphy

Brushstrokes have a natural and organic feel, even with this inky rake brush used for calligraphy.

Brush Choices

Brushes are organizes into 10 categories. You can specify Favorites for easy access.

Fresco Options

Typical Brush Settings options in Fresco.

Layers

Layers are drag-and-droppable to reorder level, group, and delete.

Oil Live Brush

The Oil is luscious and gooey, slightly dimensional, and very realistic.

Watercolor Live Brush

The Watercolor Live Brushes are even more thrilling to watch. As with the Oil Brushes, you have a full, contextual range of control over brush behavior.

About Our Expert

Shelby Putnam Tupper

Contributor

Shelby Putnam Tupper is founder and creative director of Shelby Designs Inc., a small-but-mighty, full-service, customer-obsessed design consultancy. She graduated from Trinity College in Connecticut with a BS in biology and a minor in French. She did post-graduate work at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, where she received honors in the field of Medical & Scientific Illustration. She grew her entrepreneurial and design legs during her tenure at Harrison Design Group in San Francisco.

Since its founding, Shelby Designs has received more than 100 local, national and international awards, has had their work published in books and top trade journals and exhibited in shows at The Palace of Fine Arts, The Masonic Auditorium and The SF Center for the Book. Outside the office, Shelby is a faceted artisan intoxicated by pre-1900s scientific illustration, engraving and typography. She also enjoys fiddling with her golden mean calipers and the number 1.618, and tinkers with computational graphics and Voronoi diagrams. She makes dimensional art from the pressroom’s recycled trimmings and fires up her torches to create jewelry from glass and steel. Shelby was born and raised in Oakland, where she lives with her husband, son and daughter, four cats, a gecko—and a tortoise named Darwin.

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