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Adobe Fresco: Painting Studio App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ Not for professional use. Still a lot to work onI’ve downloaded kyles brushes and it’s not coming up! It’s on my adobe fresco but it only appears as blocks!!!!!!!!!!!! Restarted the app back again and No changes. With the default brushes it’s not painting properly... the brush tool, while drawing lines it’s also erasing the lines you’ve already drawn underneath I honestly don’t know if I can continue using this app ...... this is not the first problem Ive faced. The problems I’m facing are affecting my work. I can’t seem to take this app seriously..Version: 1.5.0
✓ Tutorials are awfulAdobe created slide shows; Could not be bothered to have actual beginner video tutorials. Instead, you have to open someone else’s project to see how they did it. No way to identify whether any specific functions you are looking for are in that project. The you tubers are not much better; the one guy who seems to have the most tutorial chapters speaks and moves so fast you can’t keep up. Fresco is very unintuitive. Here is an example. Suppose you wanted to play around with a photo. Absolutely nowhere do they tell you how to even get the photo onto your palate….after much wasted noodling I figured it out, but it involves an icon that has no explanation. Why not put out a video tutorial that explains the workspace? Here is another example: What if you wanted to move a lasso’d part of your pic from one part of the pic to another…you can lasso but no way to move…a very simple thing to do in photoshop. So I am not impressed..Version: 3.6.2
✓ Adobe DrawI personally prefer adobe draw. I do not like the “update” i grew up learning the adobe draw, i’ve used it for everything, it should still be available for people who prefer it. they should not have taken down the app. i’m extremely disappointed.Version: 3.6.2
✓ Still WaitingLOVE Adobe Fresco’s drawing experience!!!!! I admit I have not painted as much as I know a lot of people out there might have by now but I am a comic book illustrator so pencil is where I reside most of my time for producing pages. But only for the figures as the Drawing Aids and in particular the Perspective Assisted Drawing which was teased at the launch of this program, has yet to appear and the ‘Coming Features’ Section is just demoralizing at this point as it’s almost two years of waiting on these features. I guess if I had to suggest a feature, I would suggest a lasso fill tool like in Clip Studio Paint. I LOVE Adobe Fresco!!! I complain about the technical tools because it is the difference between using the app half the time with Clip Studio Paint or stay in one art app. For the amount it costs per month I think it is the least Adobe can do..Version: 2.3.1
✓ Honestly it’s amazing… but at the same time frustrating & annoying1. I love everything it’s a pretty nice upgrade I have to admit, but. I got finished with a 2 HOUR drawing and I go to fill it in and it fills the whole page, so I go in and make sure all lines are sealed. Once that’s done I try again, it does the same thing so I fix it up one last time and this thing pops up saying something along the lines of ‘Cannot Fill in this Type of Layer’ which I get really annoyed at. So I decide to color it in with the brush, and I notice the colors start mixing. I didn’t know I had to disable ‘Water color’ or whatever. So my drawing was kinda a waste of time. So I quit getting really annoyed, though I come back some time later and try again. I start adjusting the drawing a bit and half of it disappears randomly. I couldn’t get it back, and at this point gave up for real. But like I said an amazing app but just so annoying and I wasted my time..Version: 3.7.0
✓ Thank you for disrupting my workflow by asking for a ratingSee above.Version: 4.7.1
✓ It sucksThe pencils are trash. It takes forever to load the app is just horrible it crashes all the time. They keep asking my location all the time. They even threaten me before when I tried to confront them. I’m very disappointed..Version: 2.6.1
✓ It’s a game changer despite its failingsI’m a life long Wacom tablet comic artist and illustrator, I have a Wacom cintiq 22hd that I love. In august I bought my first iPad Pro. It’s a 2017 with only 4 gigs of ram, compared to the latest model which has 16gigs. Fresco has given varoises some incredibly powerful tools to help make creating comics much more efficient. So much so, that I’ve almost abandoned my desktop with 32gigs of ram. Fresco still has some bugs on the major side. Fresco crashes several times per session. -probably due to my older model iPad. Solid drawing program with intuitive settings that take a couple days to master and once you do, you’ll be flying when it comes to the perspective tools, ruler tools, and the much easier and simpler ui, and liquify tool is showing that ADOBE has new tricks that make their software fresh and a must for digital artists on the go..Version: 4.0.1
✓ Great with a huge BUT WHERE ARE THE EXPORTSI love Adobe products and have relied on this company for all of my professional career. The fact that they would take the time to flesh out a “Vector Based” platform and not include Vector File Format Exports is beyond me. You only have the option to export as rasterized files or send to Illustrator ** HUGE CAVEAT ** on desktop. What is the point of spending all of your time with the limited selection of “Vector Brushes” if you can’t finish the file in the same platform? The reason I am giving this 3 Stars is because it does have potential to be fantastic. This is ONLY if Adobe adds in vector file export options. Ideally, they would add in SVG, EPS, and Ai file export options with full functionality. For artists who are reliant on a tablet, mainly iPad Pro, and cannot afford to buy a new laptop this will not work for them if they are trying to create package ready VECTOR files for clients. Which if I understand the brand identity for Adobe Fresco, was the main purpose. If this matters to anyone, I am 28 and this is the first review I have ever posted on any platform. I am an understanding person who loves a good beta testing platform, but we are out of beta and I am tired of spending 10x the effort trying to get my hard work of Fresco vector files into an actual vector format..Version: 2.7.3
✓ Biggest problem is the little storage and how much the app crashesI love this app and it’s ability to allow me to be creative. but recently, the app began to crash multiple times. it wasn’t saving any of my drawings/artwork after crashing either which is the biggest upset. piece after piece, destroyed, unsaved, back to a blank canvas again. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to completely re-do entire art pieces. then I finally figured out it was because of the storage. the canvas sizes I use aren’t even that big, and I don’t even have many art pieces in my gallery. so that leads me to believe that the cloud storage is just small to begin with. and it’s a bit too much for me to pay $10 a month just to get more storage and free me of worry. the app has great tools and I love the features that allow me to be creative, I really do, but fresco has deleted my hard work one too many times lately. and I don’t see these issues getting fixed without me having to pay for premium. so I’m ending this review in saying I will be playing around with non-adobe apps in hopes of finding something that will always save my work for me..Version: 3.2.3
✓ It’s getting there but there’s better alternativesI’ve had this app since launch and despite the improvements it still feels quite lacklustre compared to other drawing and painting applications on the iPad such as Procreate or clip studio. Not to mention so many of the "new" features should have already came with the application day 1 as other apps (like the ones mentioned) already have most of these functions there. honestly before fresco released I had hoped they would do an direct port of photoshop since that could have given them a leg up to some degree (since it would be photoshop on ipad) but instead they separate it into two apps (fresco and ps)and tried to copy Procreate’s simplified lay out but instead it pails in comparison. This made the apps feel extremely underwhelming and unfinished to an degree. Adobe is supposed to be a powerhouse used by professionals in many industries and they’re being beat by indie (in comparison) applications like CSP and Procreate. To conclude I’ll still use fresco from time to time and I do hope it can eventually reach stage where it at least feels worth using but in the meantime I’ll just stick to ps on pc and Procreate/ CSP on my iPad. Honestly I’m just pretty disappointed that fresco/ps on iPad could have been good, it could have blew both Procreate and CSP out of the water but it didn’t..Version: 2.5.0
✓ BIG problem with appThis app would be amazing and I would give it 5 stars if it weren’t for the insane lag. I have tried everything to reduce it but after using some brushes for about 4-5 seconds they start to insanely lag behind. I hope the developers fix this and reply to this review..Version: 3.2.2
✓ Great for on the road workThe only thing I wish that this had that Adobe Draw allows you to do is the put your files into projects. I work in collections so being able to file my work into the relevant projects is ideal..Version: 1.9.0
✓ $13 cdn a month?!? Lol no....just no!!!Avoid this like the plague. A nice drawing app, but feels like they released it incomplete. There are nice features that are in the "coming soon" section but again, you don’t get a full app and are asking you to pay. Brushes that are exported IMO were laggy. Save your money and just go with Procreate 5 that’s coming soon, or Artstudio Pro. Both of these apps provide a superior drawing experience to Fresco and are one time purchases. Clip Studio pro is a full sized drawing program and is half the monthly subscription cost that abode is trying to fool you into spending with Fresco. If the “coming soon" features are included in the free model then this apps rating will go up. If they hide these behind the $13 bucks a month sub then no.....Version: 1.0.2
✓ Not a patch on Procreate.Told me I needed 3gb free space for it to function. Freed up the space and was having a play about. Pretty basic features. Closed app, came back later and was told my saved files failed to load and that I needed to free up 5gb and try again. No way past this error message. Freed up 5gb. All ok for a while. Now error message when painting that the app needs an additional 1.2 gb free to save my document. Don’t have the storage space or the time. I was excited about the launch of this app, but I’m pretty disappointed. Whilst I appreciate Adobe have gone with a 6 month free trial which will enable me to see if the app improves, I’m not worried for Savage as Procreate blows this new boy out of the water in comparison to features and usability. Fresco is practically unusable on the basic 32gb I Pad.....Version: 1.2
✓ Absolute trashMost terrible app I have ever had super hard and confusing bad glitches and so much money I would give a zero if o could.what a trashy app.Version: 5.3.0
✓ Photoshop is still their golden childAs an adobe illustrator user I was quite excited about the fact that unlike Procreate this app has vector brushes. Unfortunately vector tools are pretty limited, unable to import vector brushes and exporting file as a pdf to illustrator is quite frankly a nightmare. Layer names are not saved upon export and just end up in desktop illustrator as as one huge clipping mask so it takes about 20 minutes to reorganise layer structure. Glad to know the golden kids aka photoshop users can export their layers with ease and import their own brushes. Cant import files into adobe fresco, you can in Procreate. Fresco just imports photos. On the positive their pencil brush is much better than Procreates and their vector brushes seem better than adobe draw. But please Adobe ..... look after your vector kids!.Version: 1.1
✓ Live brushes & sketching are great but the rest isn’tI think the sketching (pencil brush), even if just the sample one with the free version is great. I loved using it with Adobe Sketch when I first got my 2018 Ipad last year. I think everyone expressing their opinion in the creative community love the live brushes but past that I don’t think this app is any competition for Procreate. I’d use the free version to play with the sketches and live brushes but otherwise I’ll continue to learn and create on Procreate.Version: 1.0.2
✓ Far to complicated for practical use among new drawersThis drawing app is far to complicated for use like newbies like me. Me and my whole friend group used to make animations and draw on the now gone Adobe Illustrator Draw. APP IS ONLY GOOD FOR EXPERIENCED DRAWERS unlike adobe draw which is simple and easy. Please simplify this drawing app or bring back adobe draw..Version: 3.2.3
✓ Looks like paint, but feels like plasticThere’s a weird lack of resistance to almost all the brushes, which makes everything feel like you’re drawing on a whiteboard. You can adjust the pressure sensitivity, but this doesn’t seem to make much difference. I can’t figure out while the developers didn’t just focus on making a limited range of brushes that are actually pleasant to draw with, instead of offering 272 tacky looking watercolour brushes that are meant to con the viewer into thinking it’s done on paper. It’s like the software equivalent of a cheap pleather jacket. There are some downloadable brushes that are pleasant to use - the HB Pencil Pro, the Pulp Inker and the Big Wide Softy come to mind - but most of them are gimmicky and just take up space. Worse still, it’s a huge app, and if you try to use it when your iPad storage is nearly full, it’ll prompt you to clear 5gb of storage before you can even use it! The creative cloud brushes are all stored in gigantic multipacks, so you can’t download them individually..Version: 1.0.2
✓ Worse than both draw and sketchIt’s great that fresco brings both vector and raster layers together, but it is missing basic features from its discontinued predecessor that makes for a horrible experience. First of all, the lack of helpful preference settings. Being able to lock canvas rotation is so simple, yet missing. By removing the ability to choose stroke smoothing to apply after drawing, the smoothing feature is horribly laggy. Secondly, there are no thumbnails for folders... Why would you remove this? The interface looks dull and empty, and it’s harder to navigate. Thirdly, the horrible migration. Fresco didn’t nearly import all my work from draw and sketch as it claimed. The result is having to manually import all work from sketch and draw. Best of all, it doesn’t even let you select multiple projects to import at once. Cloud storage usage is through the roof and the imported draw files now have thumbnails disproportionate to the actual drawings..Version: 3.2.3
✓ You can do better for 1/6 the priceThe fill doesn’t work, it can’t do reference layers. It has a nice pencil, and the inking tools are fun. Not anti aliased. But if you like the look of a 1995 gif, this is for YOU! Just remember to read the warning that if you try to do any large images or use many layers, it will not perform. The layer system is also pretty primitive. For $5 it’d be an ok buy, but sadly it’s $10 a month which is insultingly poor pricing for an app that is obviously not out of alpha. Update! It tags all your work when you share and you still can’t open files that aren’t psd..Version: 1.6.1
✓ Over complicatedTook away all the easy to use functions Adobe Sketch offered. Need a degree is astrophysics just to use the water colour feature - which, by the way, is now worse than Sketch. Horrible and over complicated. Sometimes, just sometimes, updating isn’t always the best. Bring back the simplicity of drawing!!.Version: 3.6.0
✓ Why cant i choose where to save my files!I really love the lack of ability to save in a location of my choosing! i only have 70gb available space on my ipad so having files save only to the cloud (1.2 gb available space) is a tremendous bonus and is really encouraging. its also great that all my old sketch files are now in the cloud and it is seemingly impossible to save them on my ipad. i do seem to be able to make them available off line (whatever that means) whilst no indicator is given as to the location of this offline availability. having bought an apple pencil i am now enjoying the added functionality of being able to jam it into each of my eyes repeatedly. thanks Adobe you really are true backwardators of the highest order!.Version: 3.3.1
✓ Good app, bad priceThe app is fine as far as a drawing/painting app is concerned. I like Procreate better, but the brush engine for the live brushes is impressive. Adobe’s pay monthly per app subscription model, in addition to having to pay them a subscription for CC connectivity, is the reason I no longer utilize Adobe’s ecosystem for my professional work. If this app, like Procreate or the Affinity apps, offered a $10-$20 one time purchase option (maybe more, just using those numbers because the mentioned apps are in that range) then I would absolutely pay once to add a fully featured painting app to my workflow. But alas, like the rest of Adobe’s products, I have downloaded and played with the trial of this one and cannot find anything that would motivate me to pay a monthly fee for this app let alone to then pay more to be able to have a CC account to save and export my files to. This payment model must be successful for them because they keep doing it, but it’s alienating me and a lot of their other independent/non-enterprise users. To the point where neither I nor anyone I know in my professional circle use Adobes CC products to produce their work. If anything, it has driven the people who want to continue to use Adobes programs to piracy and other ways of getting access to CS6 and the like. Good app, I will continue to avoid unnecessary nickel-and-dime subscription models like the plague..Version: 1.0.2
✓ Crashed glitches all the timesOnce I worked on something for hours, and then the app crashed and I lost ALLL of my work…. It’s not reliable. If it wasn’t for the crashes, the app is amazing. But you never know when you design becomes too complicated for it…..Version: 4.3.0
✓ Buggy and slowAt first it seemed really cool with plenty of brushes and tools but as soon as you use any sort of large brush it freezes up and is barely functional, also when I added large amounts of layers it crashed and I lost all my progress, as well as all of that sometimes the zooming feature stops working. Would not recommend, if you want a free art program use sketchbook or if you want something more professional use procreate..Version: 4.4.2
✓ The Good. The Bad. And the ugly.Unquestionably, this is the very best vector drawing app for iPad Pro that I’ve come across. I have lost files between crashes. And when reported, Adobe gives me the runaround. So hardware to cloud processing is still in the lap of the god’s. Exporting vector to AI desktop is horrendous. Crashes etc. The workaround is export a PDF from Fresco; open it in AI and save it as an AI file. I think they’re taking advantage of everybody with their subscription model as I only use four apps - Fresco - AI - Photoshop and Lightroom and there’s not a business model that supports this for a struggling artist working on a game. All that said, we’re in miracle days with the software available to us. I just wish it came with a plug in called Empathy..Version: 3.8.0
✓ It can be goodWhenever i try to use the fill, not only does it take forever to load but half the time it doesn’t even work. And even though the app has the most recent update, whenever i try to use the paint inside mode, it waits a few seconds then fully crashes. Please fix this its extremely frustrating and makes the app nylon impossible to use to its full potential..Version: 5.2
✓ Oh Dear.I have a subscription to Photoshop and lightroom but fresco wants me to pay 15 bucks a month. So let me get this straight- buy fresco premium for 15 a month and get photoshop mobile, buy a photo plan for 14 a month, get ps mobile and lightroom mobile plus desktop versions but not get premium access to fresco. Adobe you’ve done it again, amazing..Version: 1.8.1
✓ Should Be BetterWhat originally attracted me to Adobe Fresco was the easy & familiar interface and vector drawing, but what I didn’t realize is that you have to also have an Adobe Illustrator subscription to be able to export your finished files as vectors! I’ve had a Fresco subscription for about a year now and I’m still waiting for them to deliver the symmetry drawing & brush creation features they’ve been promising for longer than that. Even while working on one of the most recent iPad Pro models, some of the brushes are laggy, some to the point that you have to wait for them to catch up to continue your work. So far no update has improved the usability of those brushes. Adobe on a subscription model can’t seem to provide the kind of basics that Procreate can for a one-time fee of about $10. The brushes are smoother, you can use a bigger canvas, symmetry drawing works great, you can create your own brushes, etc. Adobe is a bigger company collecting more money than Procreate could ever dream of, and yet they fall behind in the basics. Vector drawing is a waste of time if you can’t export your file without an additional monthly fee for Illustrator. I was trying to be patient in hopes that Fresco would give us a bit more for the money, but I’m pretty disappointed with their lack of progress. Due to poor brush performance, I stopped bothering with it..Version: 4.1.1
✓ Draw files inaccessible - years of work lostI will start by saying I am a working artist with my income solely from logo work and illustration. All of which I did on Abobe Draw on my iPad. Years of files accumulated. One day recently I went to open Adobe Draw to transport a logo I had drawn up the day before and to do some work on a mural design I was nearly done with - only to find that Adobe Draw no longer exists and that I needed to download Fresco to access my Draw files and continue work one them. When I did.. I found them all scattered and without preview thumbnails to easily assess what was where - just blank file folders to sort through. All out of order so I had to click on each one but still couldn’t find my most recent projects. Loads of drawings that I can’t find - and the ones I do find I can’t open and get “try again later”! What am I supposed to do!? This is insane! Just crying at my desk and preparing to have to redraw months of projects and morn the loss of others. Badly done, Adobe. Help please if you can..Version: 3.6.2
✓ This app thinks it’s smarter than you.Not as intuitive as other image creation apps. The Text tool sadly underperforms with very minimal flexibility for creating image/text based work. Definitely not an app for some one who loves typography. As someone who has used image creating apps for iPads since iPad 1, this is one of the worst..Version: 3.9.1
✓ Can’t support renting software…Love Adobe and because my company pays for the subscription, I use Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator, Indesign, Animate and many other Adobe apps daily for the marketing and 3D animation work I do at my job. However, I don’t want to rent software for my personnel art projects I do at home. This looks like a great drawing program but I don’t want to have to make monthly payments to access the full features of a software I will never own. A single one time purchase price for the fully functioning app would make me a customer. There are several amazing drawing apps that require a single payment to own the software and all of its features. Those companies also continue to support that software with new features and improvements for free. That’s a business model I can support. I hope that one day you will change this Adobe because I do love your software, just not enough to pay you rent in order to use a full version of the software forever..Version: 4.7.0
✓ Needs WorkNot enough space for brushes, you can't move the icons around, icon placement makes no sense, too many useless functions, don't like brush options. The app is extremely laggy even with full bars of service/wifi. I spent 10 minutes customizing the eraser and it still functions incorrectly, it seems that the proportions of where you touch the screen to where the eraser begins erasing are slightly off of balance. These are only some of the flaws I care to list. The transition from the old app to this one was aggravating. They said that it would be possible to keep the old app and that updates would just stop being made to it, but the old app was removed. Not all of my projects transferred over. The projects that did transfer either have to be redone or trashed because they do not have the same tools that I used to create them, so I can not finish them, or edit them properly. The undo/redo buttons are very small compared to the size of the canvas, which makes it difficult to accurately press the one that I want. Perhaps this is not supposed to be a phone app? I do not see myself keeping this app unless many changes are made..Version: 3.2.3
✓ Worked good the first couple days...Got the app on my new ipro, and the first few days it worked great, now it pauses randomly after some strokes. It also doesn’t always register the touch to step back so you keep tapping, it then catches up and goes back multiple steps...annoying. I’m using the same vector brushes and same size artwork I did with Adobe DRAW and never encountered these problems. The other day I discovered that if I hold after a curved line, I could scale and rotate!!!! My mind was blown! ....this option stopped working. HUGE PROBLEM: I spent 2 days working on a piece, went to work on it the next day and MY VECTOR ART WAS RUINED!! All my VECTOR lines became PIXEL lines. I then realized that right above the MERGE LAYERS BUTTON, Is the TURN LAYERS TO PIXEL button......are you kidding me?!? If your pencil slips and you don’t catch it, your screwed. You can’t turn them back once you close the app (possibly even before) if these items were fixed this app would be wonderful, and I wouldn’t feel bad dishing out more $$ to adobe. Also I noticed a new vector brush was added, please continue to add vector brushes, as that was my one original issue. I cant wait to rate this app 5 stars!.Version: 1.6.0
✓ Amazing but a few bugsWent from using sketch to fresco and fresco is so good, so many more options and images look much smoother and sharper and all for free ! However after using the app for about half an hour it began to run super slowly. The touch sensitivity when using an Apple Pencil isn’t working very well and the app just seems to lag and not be as responsive. I still love it, but the lag is very frustrating. I haven’t purchased any brushes yet but am seriously considering as I love the app and the brushes you can buy seem to give really good effects. If there was an update that dealt with the slowness I definitely wouldn’t mind paying for more.Version: 2.2.0
✓ Not apple pencil-friendly, Fresco support unhelpfulFor whatever reason, my apple pencil could do everything else in the app except draw a single thing. Contacted Adobe support via chat, and they kept referring me to a different agent several times to fix what is seemingly a small problem. The first couple of times, rather than addressing my issue of getting the pencil to draw, they insisted that there were no Adobe products registered to my account even though I had Adobe Fresco registered and working (besides the pencil). When they finally put me through to someone slightly helpful, they disconnected halfway through, whether intentionally or not I am not sure..Version: 1.1
✓ Storage hogWith only a few cloud docs downloaded this app starts eating storage by the gig with no discernible logic. I've basically given up on it — with Procreate I seem to manage’ always offline’ for all photoshop and fresco stuff while using literally a fraction of the space. I’m talking 6gb versus like 20+ with fresco/ps/cc and again, no obvious explanation regarding docs being online. I’ve gone through a process of reinstalling the lot a few times now so procreate looks like the best bet.Version: 2.1.0
✓ Freemium version is pretty uselessI tried the free version; you can’t import brushes, so all of my Photoshop brushes from when I used to have Photoshop remain redundant (until Procreate 5 with PS brush compatibility woohoo). I did have some PS brush sets in my CC library, but they wouldn’t load, and didn’t work properly in the app. They caused random parts of my painting to delete as I drew with a brush. These are brushes that were designed for Photoshop, but wouldn’t work in Fresco. The live brushes were entertaining for a while, and then I got bored. Too limited without paying 9.49 a month and very buggy. The eraser “shortcut” was a nuisance (just allow the eraser tool to be set to any brush). With excellent apps (Affinity Designer/Photo and Procreate) available, there is nothing special about Fresco to draw me into a subscription again..Version: 1.0.2
✓ DookyHonestly really a buzzkill having gone from adobe ideas - draw and now fresco,,, fresco i would say use to be great for what i couldnt do in adobe draw but i am disappointed that none of the features i used the most in draw was transferred to frescos, i find the layout confusing and brush options not the best ((i want a basic outline brush with no blending/water/oil but the process to change is so incredibly more confusing previously ive never had any issues with this app until the force closure of draw and kow the new fresco is honestly terrible :( would reccomend investing in procreate in an ipad or just dont bother for mobile anymore.Version: 4.2.0
✓ Miss Adobe drawI understand how this app is far superior for artists who want to create more complex pieces and understand all the functions, however for me it is too complicated and missing features I loved about Adobe draw. Adobe draw was much more user friendly and perfect for me, who just wanted the basic functions. Shutting down Adobe draw entirely was a terrible move. Why not just leave it up without updates for those of us who used it?.Version: 3.5.0
✓ Disappointing.What can I say. I hate this app. It’s put me off drawing altogether. That I’m forced to use it because I used its predecessor which was so much more intuitive to use just adds to the pain. No basic shapes to use, no longer can I use the pencil to tap and change to the eraser function. Looking for files I’ve both created in app and from legacy is cause for nightmares. I find other drawing apps less of a pain to use and more intuitive. Worse yet, I know if I keep using this app, by the time I figure out all its ugliness, they will just release a newer one we’re once again, we have to relearn all they ways of doing things. So much time wasted..Version: 3.6.1
✓ 2.6GB CanvasResponse To Developer Reply: I’m not giving you my email address. Why don’t you just explain in your review reply why this stupid feature exists please? I suspect it has something to do with the validity of a user’s email address whenever signing up for an Adobe account. And that’s why you won’t explain the stupid canvas storage space creation problem and why you want me to email you instead, so you can have my email address. You’ve given the exact same reply to every single other person who mentioned this same problem that I did. That’s telling if you ask me and means you’re being dishonest and up to no good I’m pretty positive. I have more than enough free storage space on my device to create a blank canvas that would only amount to a couple of megabytes in default total. The fact that you programmed the app this way says you’re up to something shady. Explain the issue in more detail here. I’m not emailing you and I would advise other users facing this same issue who also got the same copy and pasted reply, to not email Adobe either. Either wait for their explanation here or just stick to your low star rating. Original Review: The app keeps telling me that I need an additional 2.6GB of storage space to create a canvas. I don't understand that for a second. Very bizarre and disappointing app in my opinion. Definitely would not recommend this program to anyone for that reason..Version: 2.5.0
✓ Very bad 😞I deleted almost all of my apps and i barely had anything left and i still had to free storage. This was very annoying, i deleted the app. Would not recommend. 😕.Version: 4.7.1
✓ UnusableThe app has a shortcut feature where if you press on the screen for 2 seconds it uses the eyedropper tool and changes your ink colour to the colour your pen is on. So get this; you are drawing a picture...and the eyedropper is selected, selects the white background you’re drawing on and you end up drawing nothing. You have to stop, undo, reselect your last colour and start again. EVERY TWO SECONDS. There is no way to switch this off. This is a massive fail and I cannot understand how it was ever allowed past the (ahem) drawing board. Sack the lot of them!.Version: 2.1.0
✓ Too complicatedI loved adobe sketch as it was simple to use and met my needs. Fresco is too complicated and I can’t get the tools to work how I need them too. It’s probably a great app for some but for me it’s just stressful using it. And disappointing that I can’t create what I need. I don’t have time for the tutorials. Why get rid of a product that worked? Maybe its time to go back to paper and real art tools! Just found out that frescos adds backgrounds to cut out images effectively making the app totally useless to me and I can’t work out how to edit image layers once you’ve added them. Yet another feature of sketch missing or at least hidden! And trying to get your sketch projects is irritating, only able to do one at a time and the files you end up with are don’t have an image on the icon so you know which one is which. Feeling vexed that I have been forced to pay for more storage to get my sketch work back too. I couldn’t even access them to delete unwanted projects. Looking for an alternative product that is not adobe now..Version: 3.3.0
✓ Do not use this appSometimes fresco will randomly rotate your layers, causing them to be cropped and basically deleting half of it. Use this app if you want to waste all the hours you put into your art.Version: 4.2.1
✓ Waste of time and moneyIf I could give 0 stars I would, I don’t ever leave reviews but this time I had to. To start I only got this app because adobe draw was removed and this is the replacement. That being said I really tried to give it a chance, even paid the $10 yearly crap for the pro version and it’s still trash. This app is not user friendly at all if you have time to sit there and google how to do everything then go for it but I can’t believe how difficult everything is when adobe draw was so much simpler and did the same thing! Also I don’t think the quality and flow of the brushes are up to par I use the app from my phone and I never had a problem but now it’s as if I’m using a computer mouse to draw and it comes out with a bunch of jagged pixelated lines instead of a nice smooth flow if that makes sense. Only way I could see this app being useful is if it was on a iPad or something with a pen you can use, even then I’m sure you’re better off with something else seeing as you’d have to google how to do anything since its so complicated to even navigate the brush settings. Don’t waste your time I’ve already found a couple free apps that are 10 times better than this. I literally have the pro version until next year and I’m still removing it because it’s a useless waste of space on my phone..Version: 4.2.1
✓ :(Want adobe draw back it was way better.Version: 3.6.1
✓ Great app, but still a way to goLove that Adobe have finally released this awesome app to complete the CC suite workflow. I’m still trying out the features and all great so far - one interface issue I have is when I lean on my iPad and it undoes steps I didn’t want to undo - ultimately loosing some gem strokes. (There is no option to turn this feature off) This is a really big flaw for me, but other than that, seems good so far. Clearly this app is going up against Procreate - and right now Pro’ still wins by a landslide. I find it a little ridiculous that people are rating it so low. It’s a brand new app and of course it’s not going to be fantastic upon its first release, however I see a lot of potential which will eventually take hold and become an app no digital artist can live without. Long way to go but look forward to using this app regularly once it’s smoothed out..Version: 1.1
✓ Almost unusableI’ve been waiting to paint with my photoshop brushes on iPad and this is the only aspect where Fresco doesn’t let me down. However as a digital painter there are 2 basic functions I rely on heavily. Colour picker and brush size. Adjusting either of these is clunky, especially the picker gesture. Performance is pretty average and file sizes are nuts. I have 2 projects with a few layers about 4K resolution this is using 14gb of my iPad storage but also needs to connect to the cloud when I open it???? Compared to Procreate where I have about 100 projects and only using 20gb Trying to go any higher resolution over 4K on my iPad with my custom brushes is struggletown..Version: 1.1
✓ Drains battery while not in use.Great app for drawing overall. It’s really good for what you get for free, and i’s even better if you have a creative cloud subscription. However, the app drains a lot of battery when not in use. I went to sleep with my iPad at 70%, and woke up to it being at about 60%. When i checked my battery settings, I saw that adobe fresco was draining it all night. This never happened to me before. I usually leave my iPad on, unused, for days and it stays at the same percentage. I don’t think you would have such a problem if you closed the app every time you used it, but that’s not very good for the battery’s lifespan. As far as I’m concerned, this stays the best app for realistic oil/watercolor digital paintings, so I will continue using it. Until the problem is fixed, i can’t recommend it to someone with an older device and a shorter battery life..Version: 1.4.1
✓ Disappointed completely.I was really disappointed at first, I was looking for an app that had a set of colors ( and a spectrum ), good range to zoom in with, and nice brushes. Firstly, the colors are great, and it has a pretty easy to use spectrum. I have absolutely no problem there. But however I wanted to be able to zoom in a LOT, which is where I got disappointed… I could only zoom in a little bit until everything was completely pixelated. In addition, there are only two brushes and they are SO intricate, tedious, and frustrating to adjust!! This is my second point of disappointment. Maybe I’m just dumb, and you literally only have two brushes that can’t be adjusted, even though that’s supposed to be the super cool main feature. I really tried to find something in this app I liked but infinity art just doesn’t work out when using this app. [ Thank you for reading ].Version: 5.2
✓ Why discontinue Adobe Draw?I’m still trying to wrap my head around the fact that Adobe Draw, which was perfect, was replaced by Fresco. It’s ‘merged’ with Fresco but with almost none of the Adobe Draw features that made it an amazing means of creating art. A few years ago I could grind out over 7 pieces of art a week due to its simplicity and user friendly style. Shortly before the merge I would make at least 1 a week, since then I haven’t made a single piece because of the difficulties I’ve had trying to use fresco. Also it arranged all of my files into separate folders making it a headache to even look through my previous pieces. This is a Hail Mary but please either add all of the features from Adobe Draw or bring Adobe Draw back as it was, otherwise I can’t see myself using this app to make anything. I used to praise Adobe for its diversity in creative apps but now it seems they just mashed 2 perfect apps together to make a confusing photoshop styled mess..Version: 3.7.0
✓ Buggy and ExpensiveAs a digital artist I had really high hopes for this app. Unfortunately the brushes just don’t flow like they do in Procreate. It feels harsh and even with the brush settings as you want them, they just aren’t as intuitive or natural feeling. Something’s off and quite laggy. Then there’s the subscription. I’m already an adobe cloud subscriber, why on earth would I pay an additional Ten pounds a month for this, seems greedy. I signed up for the free trial and I am prepared to see if they improve this app, but If they don’t I’ll be cancelling..Version: 1.0.2
✓ Subscription model don’t buy!!Currently uses a subscription model to use. Will not use until they provide a one time purchase to all brushes.Version: 1.0.2
✓ Horrible app.This app is beyond over priced and sells your data to third parties. Absolutely NOT worth it.Version: 4.1.1
✓ PLEASE MAKE COLOUR PALETTES MORE USEFUL AND USEABLEI absolutely love this app and I find the paint effects are maybe even better than procreate...however.... PLEASE add a better system for colour schemes. You can only make them in another Adobe app but that is only 5 colours per palette. I want to be able to sample colours in fresco from a picture or whatever and then be able to save many colours within the palette right in fresco and then have many options for palettes just like in procreate and other paint programs. Even if you use the ‘recent’ swatches, they disappear after coming back into the painting or starting another..Version: 2.5.0
✓ Forced off of Adobe SketchApp is all around fantastic make no mistake. The problem is that for those who have just been forced off of adobe sketch, the OS jump and tools to create things you love, is like going from a bicycle to a car at age 10. I personally think the application is great but my girlfriend who has no prior experience with large scale adobe products is left in the dust with the removal of the option to use adobe sketch here. She doesn’t have the tools and simplistic operations to create anymore. Though the application is deep with features, she really misses the simple eraser/brush/pencil/pen options to draw with and is having a very difficult time adjusting to the new application. Because of her difficulties on the new app she is actively discouraged to create any more drawn content and create her designs. I would love to see adobe sketch back on the App Store and fresco be kept for those who intend to do more professional work. Or a side application that is more suited for those with less experience with these products. For myself, as an adobe suite owner, I am disappointed to see that certain products not be kept around for those less fluent in adobe..Version: 3.2.3
✓ Not WorthwhileI’ve been around with Adobe since Photoshop CS3. And I’ve read Adobe’s responses to the people who dislike this subscription model. Adobe, you can tell us that $10 a month is ‘worthwhile’ because we also gain access to Photoshop for desktop, but I’m not buying it. You’ve done very little over the past few years to genuinely improve the brush engines in desktop Photoshop for artists or added any new feature that significantly add to the field of illustration or 2D artists. You’ve stopped innovating. While it is true the brushes in fresco are far better than anything in desktop Photoshop, that isn’t enough to warrant a monthly subscription. I will give my money to developers who let me OWN the software perpetually. No strings attached. No what ifs, and no worry if I can’t make a payment one month. As others have pointed out, what incentives DO you all have to make any improvements if people will give you a monthly infusion of cash? Ultimately, I have more faith in smaller development teams who aren’t multi million dollar companies who are out to make as much money as they can. Procreate, Infinite Painter, and Artstudio Pro are far better alternatives to this sub-par software..Version: 1.2.1
✓ Ok but also not okI love drawing on this app, but if I draw too long it restarts the app and sometimes it says is is not a valid PSD file. The watercolour brush, if i make the brush on it’s thickest and draw on the screen, I will glitch, and if I try to save the glitch project, my whole project will appear to be black or sometimes if duplicates my layers and turns them upside down. They even delete my layers if I don’t save my project properly. Otherwise, it’s good. The multicolour swatch is best, thanx for that special tool, with it, I can write 3D words and draw 3D stuff.Version: 4.1.1
✓ Decent. Not bad, but not greatI’ve been playing around with Procreate for a while now and fresco just didn’t match the quality in their UX or execution of brushes. A lot of brushes do not pick up/mix with colors underneath. And the live ones feel more like blending brushes rather than painting brushes because they mix more of the initial color already there than they put new color down. The oil brushes have this odd bevel and emboss effect that reminded me of the early 2000s days of photoshop effects. And only like 4 brushes could tilt. I was impressed with the halftone brushes. They worked very well and is something Procreate doesn’t come with. You can buy brushes from other places for Procreate that work just as well though. The lack of blending brush mode is the most frustrating experience as that is what I use most to create my work. The eraser is just one solid circle. A massive drawback. -SUMMARY- In general the brush selection was underwhelming and not as impressive as one would hope for considering there is another app with a one time payment of $10 instead of a monthly creative cloud subscription for the rest of your life. I’m hoping as time goes by there will be major improvements in store..Version: 1.0.2
✓ A lot of lies and trying to get more people to get this app!I was very excited to download it until I download it and sign in. I was looking at motion tutorial, and then I saw shine so I made my own, but I didn’t find anything that would make my drawing, shiny and they lied! I am so frustrated! So be warned!.Version: 4.7.1
✓ Unusable with white lines on fill toolGotten to the point where using the fill tool causes white lines on the border to appear which are very noticeable.Version: 3.7.5
✓ Fill refuses to work and crashes at least 10 times a day while I’m using itBeen using Adobe Fresco for more than a year now, as Adobe Draw (my first and still favorite drawing app) was replaced by it. Still very very mad about it, as this is nowhere near as friendly, easy to use or charming as Draw was. But still, it seems like a nice drawing app, free, professional, and had most of the features from Draw. Then, I had to stop using on my phone as I couldn’t even do one drawing without it saying I’m “out of storage”, despite the fact I had 5 open at once on there, The main problems are the storage issue, my program now crashes every few minutes, and it taking forever at times to fill, and sometimes for no reason the fill stops working altogether. Currently having to exit the program as it’s crashed for the 5th time in two hours, after waiting 10 minutes for the fill to work. After I’m done with my projects on Fresco, most likely deleting the program and finding a better..Version: 4.1.0
✓ Forced switch from SketchUpon opening my Adobe Sketch app this afternoon and discovering that it no longer exists, I was forced to switch to Fresco, a program advertised every time I had previously opened the Sketch app and I declined adding each time. I was frustrated to open the new Fresco app for a time sensitive project, only to find that it is not nearly as intuitive or user friendly as Sketch, the icons are not obvious, and each icon has many options within that will be time consuming to adjust to and remember. To add to the panic, all of my previous works from Sketch haven’t ‘synced’ yet so I cannot access my previously saved projects from the Sketch app which I regularly open and edit. There was no warning that the Sketch program was being removed, and the platform no longer provides the simplicity of the Sketch app that originally drew me to it. Developers- consider reinstating it or creating a simplified dashboard option on Fresco that is more like the original Sketch offerings that attracted artists to it in the first place..Version: 3.2.3
✓ Fresco updateApp crashes every time I choose a pixel brush, can use live brushes and vector brushes. Crashes started after last update..Version: 4.8.0
✓ Adobe is playing us like a fiddleSo out of the gate I’ll say this: this app is good, it’s missing plenty of features but I honestly can’t see those not coming in the near future and the brushes are honestly very impressive, both the live ones and the more run of the mill vector brushes. That said, the fact that this app wants to charge users a monthly subscription of 10$, in a world were Procreate exists as a one-time purchase of also 10$, is criminal. There’s two options here: either Adobe is living under a rock and doesn’t realize that their business practices are outdated and honestly not competitive at all, or they straight up think that their customers are idiots who will buy anything that Billie Eilish tells them to. In conclusion. This app would be a great competitor for Procreate if it wasn’t for the ludicrous 10$ subscription. Don’t even bother with it if you’re not already paying for Creative Cloud. REVIEW UPDATE: the dev answer to my review must be a joke. Like, did you even read my review? You basically doubled down on my criticism. I really hope that review was made by some automated response bot or something. Anyways, par for the course for Adobe customer service..Version: 1.0.2
✓ O/10To annoying to use. The rulers are terrible. The snapping makes them impossible to set were you want them. Always jumping to the set location. But then even when you try the auto straight line, more snapping so you can’t get the lines you want. Go to sketch book they got it figured out so does procreate. Making things difficult just so it’s different, so it’s adobe. Out side of Lightroom it’s garbage. Photo shop same, not up to snuff. Affinity is better, even though it has issues, at least the focus seems to be functionality..Version: 3.9.1
✓ ReviewIf I’m honest with myself the app is a little bit complicated. Like I had to watch the tutorial quite a few times and it got a bit frustrating. So when I got this app (because I’m new to digital art) I wanted an app that wouldn’t be to hard so I think (my opinion) that it’s not quite the app for beginners but other than that it’s pretty good. Thanks.Version: 4.7.0
✓ A great start!I think this program has some amazing potential. The live paint layers provide the best digital watercolor I’ve ever seen on any platform. Working with the flowing watercolor paints feels great and produces some good results. I really hope Adobe focuses on continuing development, because as good as it is, Fresco isn’t a complete package. I had a difficult time getting beyond just playing around, as there is a lot of missing functionality and precision required for a full drawing and painting experience. It’s impossible not to compare this with Procreate, which has a very full feature set. Fresco’s live paint is really it’s only advantage. I can’t imagine who would pay the monthly fee on its own. But Adobe’s UI is pretty solid and there are the bones of something really special. I hope they put the pedal to the metal and evolve this program to fulfill its promise soon..Version: 1.1
✓ It’s almost perfect. The only issue is that you can’t trust it.I came from Procreate. For years it was my main drawing app until it wasn’t anymore. I rediscovered a renewed Fresco after years of my first peak and now it’s infinitely better. I love everything about it, the rulers especially, and the continuity to work between PSDs files on the computer. However, I have lost a day’s worth of my work. Twice. There’s a connectivity issue between the iPad file with the cloud file, which impedes my file to SAVE OR SHARE my work. And what’s worst is that the only way to solve this issue is by closing the app completely, which is my only option, then all I have left is to expect it to recover my file, but as you guessed it, it fails to recover my file just as it failed to save before. I gave two stars, because I REALLY like this app, but the experience of losing all my work is just mindblowingly frustrating. If the app helps me create, then destroys my work, it’s useless. I’d give 5 stars if could trust it..Version: 4.8.0
✓ TerribleIt was disappointing and disgraceful with no instructions it has good quality and it would make stuff look awesome but the problem is it’s impossible to make any thing in the first place terrible I don’t recommend this to anyone I strongly believe it is not good at all.Version: 4.8.0
✓ Please make this more compatible with iPad Air 2 !Would love to use this app but not compatible with the air 2. Please fix this.Version: 4.8.0
✓ Furious! All my old art is gone.I have so many memories stored in Adobe Draw and Sketch and when I’ve gone in to retrieve some of my old art, I can’t see anything without it telling me to download Fresco. Now that I’ve downloaded it, not all of my art has synced. I’m certain I’m missing lots of drawings. I got a notification saying that some documents couldn’t be imported due to insufficient Creative Could storage, yet I have 1.5GB free?! This is an absolute joke and a jerk move on Adobe’s behalf that I can’t even view my old art anymore. At least keep Draw and Sketch active as a viewing platform if we can’t use those apps to draw on anymore. I’m so mad..Version: 3.2.3
✓ If you want a reliable drawing app, find something elseI just lost DAYS of work. I’ve been working on this piece for a week and today, the app crashed. I have saved the work plenty of times but somehow, it reverted to a version of the piece from days ago. I’ve lost hours of work because this app crashed. If you care for your art at all, DO NOT USE THIS APP..Version: 5.0.1
✓ Not user-friendlyThis app is not ANYWHERE near as user-friendly as Adobe Draw was. The only reason I installed it in the first place was because Draw was discontinued and merged with this one. I thought this would be fine because all of my old files from Adobe Draw were carried over to this app, but when I went to continue a project I was previously working on, the features were completely different and much more difficult to navigate than Adobe Draw ever was. For example, you can't easily use the color picker tool on a single layer without selecting all the other layers you have created, meaning you can't easily create other layers to begin with. The double tap features from Adobe Draw are also completely gone, so if you want to single out or access certain options on layers, you have to go through an entire toolbar to do so. In summary, it's WAY more complicated and essentially a lot less user-friendly. In the end, I made a single mistake on one layer that ended up compromising an entire project, because I couldn't properly merge or un-merge the layers I was working in. Which means I'm now going to have to start over from scratch. I don't know what the purpose was for transitioning Adobe Draw to Adobe Fresco, but I wish we had the option to change over instead of being forced to use this app instead, since it ruined all of my progress on an important piece of work..Version: 3.2.3
✓ CrashesHas been completely fine for months, however this past week it has been super slow and sluggish. Yesterday the app crashed and lost hours of work that I could not recover and I had to do it again. Luckily I managed to save it before it crashed again. Since then, it has been extremely slow and crashing very very often - especially as it’s ‘saving’. Really disappointed and frustrated..Version: 3.6.0
✓ Need the basicsThis is a good drawing app although it is definitely a down grade from adobe draw, it should be better since I am forced to used it over adobe draw since it has been stopped. This app really needs the basics things that made adobe draw good for example I want to be able to trace basic shapes like a circle not have to free hand draw a circle and mess it up, the rubber is so bad bc there is no outline to the rubber so I can’t rub things out in detail. I am soo disappointed with this app as I loved adobe draw and thought it was the best drawing app available in the App Store..Version: 3.4.0
✓ Depends on youThe app is good overall. I would use it for company business because it has a subscription. Tired of everything asking for a subscription instead of one-time buys. So if you are doing digital art for fun or your own personal solo business get ProCreate, Affinity, Autodesk Sketchbook or some other alternative instead. Usually cheap things, have cheap quality. Thats not the case with most of the alternatives these days. Some have better quality but thats imo. It wont hurt to give the app a try tho, maybe your pockets for some. Also, if you are paying monthly there should be new content coming out every month or maintenance updates every month, which is the case. So the subscription is valid, it just they are milking minor improvements so the subscription can look justifiable..Version: 3.2.3
✓ Bring back SketchSlow to load your work. Not as easy to use as sketch. Converting to Fresco more than doubled my file storage and it tells me I’m out of space and need to pay for more! Bring back Sketch it was uncomplicated and did everything I needed!.Version: 3.2.3
✓ Not worth having when it means I cannot use PSD in AffinityThis app corrupts other apps. Having Fresco on my iPad means I cannot open PSD files in Affinity Designer or Affinity Photo. Something which was perfectly functional before. It’s bad enough I can’t install Adobe CS3 on my new computer because you’ve closed the servers. Meaning a program I purchased and which can actually run on the computer is now rendered useless. On top of that Adobe think I should not be allowed to use both Adobe and other programs on my iPad? This just makes me even less likely to ever buy Adobe software again. If I have to choose, I will NOT choose Adobe, which clearly do not respect customers’ choices to use alternatives..Version: 3.7.5
✓ Adobe Draw fanI am a huge Adobe Draw fan and felt like the user interface was so much more intuitive than Fresco. Maybe I am just so used to Draw that Fresco seems harder, but it has still taken me a while to get used to Fresco, and honestly, I’m still having a hard time. I don’t understand why you can’t save colors into your palette in Fresco, that seems like a HUGE failing on Fresco’s part. Luckily my color libraries from Draw have been saved and migrated over. I feel like the toolbar on Fresco should be more customizable, and certain gestures while drawing could and should be moved over from Draw. For example, I really miss the ability to hold down the stylus to fill/paint bucket, and double tapping layers to hide/unhide. Maybe I just haven’t discovered how to unlock those features yet in Fresco, but that’s because it’s a more difficult user interface to navigate. I just wish Adobe Draw wasnt discontinued..Version: 3.2.3
✓ It needs a lot of your storageIt’s gets annoying signing in,but it is managing quickly, and once u get in will show how big u want your paper big small and even custom, but it need a-lot of gigabytes and I had to delete some apps,and some of the tools are very confusing and the best quality is with a iPad(apple) and with a apple pen if you don’t have a pen it no luck for u and the blending tool removes the colour too much,I’m not sure if this is a bug or not, I did 4 drawings and I had to delete most of my apps that I have high scores on so……. I do recommend if u have lots of storage,ipad,and apple pen.Version: 5.3.0
✓ Good software.. but I'm not taking the bait anymoreWhy can they not charge up front for the work they've done & that's it? I refuse to subscribe to this method of payment, although would pay more for apps developed by reputable companies than what is currently the avg. price. I know it sounds crazy but with Adobe's current offerings you could be close to a car payment or mortgage with they're monthly subscriptions. Computers used to be my thing, until this business model came along, now I use pencils & pens more often. Ironically those companies who require digital proofs or samples and insist on me digitizing my traditional work, are not companies I'm thrilled to work with and ultimately I do not submit anything to them. It's worth the extra gas, time, hassle, to drive for me to meet with the company & show them my artwork. I have yet to lose a job in which that was the case. Adobe lost me as a customer. I don't see the incentive for Adobe to innovate & update when they have a constant stream of income every month from mediocre Apps in the appstore. Come to thing of it, how many apps has Adobe abandoned in the Appstore? All the money Adobe funneled to themselves from my account while I worked that much harder in order to pay for it, I stopped & decided less is better, it saves the wear & tear on my body & I have more time for myself to enjoy life. Hell with it, I'm not going to bust my rear just to make them more money..Version: 1.1
✓ It’s fineI didn’t get to try because it has a monthly subscription but it looks cool.Version: 4.2.1
✓ Okayish but usual Adobe overreachYou can’t use this or access your documents in it without signing in to an adobe account. Even using the new Apple account requires you to reveal personal data the apple account system is designed to prevent the gathering of. Last time I created an account with Adobe, some twenty years ago, they stored the passwords in plain text, on an unsecure server, which was breached. I still get emails from ‘hackers’ that have my that password and email address. Maybe your privacy means nothing, in which case, enjoy this app, which is a non-fiscally-priced version of a number of far better iOS apps which might cost a few pounds, but at least allow you to use different tools together. Remember, though; it’s not free. You have to provide personal information to use it. It might cost no money, but it’s not free..Version: 1.7.1
✓ Good start...disappointing updateSo Ive been eagerly awaiting the straight edge/shapes update..and I get that fresco is likely trying to differentiate themselves from procreate, but I think it’s fine to acknowledge/adopt some of the features that just work. The shapes/straight lines are much more intuitive in procreate if fresco’s solution is really this draggable ruler thing...? (Maybe I’m missing something?) I totally understand that a new app should have time to work out the kinks and update their way to a more robust tool. But this ruler interrupts the drawing flow and requires too many taps to get one simple result, tainting what is otherwise a pretty good UI. And we still can’t make a circle/arc so I guess we wait for yet another related but separate tool that could have been solved in one gesture. You guys already won me over with the vector brushes (and I’m already an Adobe user thus nothing beats an interconnected ecosystem) so there’s no need to be different for the sake of being different when the market has already shown us a more efficient solution. Please employ the drag and hold for perfected lines/shapes 🙏.Version: 1.1
✓ Crashing，crashingCrashing，crashing，crashing，always，always！ and than，cannot open it and delete it， because，that was not “psd” file already，lol.Version: 4.0.1
✓ BuggyKeeps bugging out and closing the app while in use.Version: 4.2.1
✓ Great app, aweful storage optionsI’ve enjoyed painting many things in this app. Wish I could approximate Bob Ross paintings better (nothing seems to match the capabilities of his brush strokes), but still a good app, love it. The major snag I just hit is with storage. Adobe asset manager only allows download of one file at a time, and that’s IF they are synced. If you make a few high fidelity paintings you maybe have 5 that will upload in their storage. Past that the files won’t sync. So just use Google drive right? Think again! Google drive can’t see Fresco files. “The artwork is stored only in the cloud”. Which means Fresco doesn’t play nicely with other cloud providers, they expect you to buy their storage or else. So factor in $120\year for storage costs if you plan to make multiple paintings and want a plan for if someone steals your iPad. I’m disappointed and hoping Adobe makes an easier way to use other storage providers. Most apps allow their files to be freely accessed. Stop the file hostage option Adobe! If I’m wrong let me know and I can update review. Update: you can export as PSD through the app, then save to files and choose storage provider. Then repeat as many times as you have files, wait for them to upload and then delete them.. whew. Exhausting file management if you’re not willing to pay a subscription fee..Version: 4.7.0
✓ Please make colour palettes better and ability to use colour harmonies!!!!Procreate has great colour harmonies and colour abilities but I’d like to use fresco more but cannot do much with colour please make changes to this so i can use fresco more!!!.Version: 2.7.7
✓ Be careful! I don’t recommend….If you want to loose everything you’ve been working on for hours in just a sec, use this app… I liked the tools it provides, very easy to learn using, so I decided to give it a second chance as it did freeze before and shut down and didn’t save anything I was working on. Ok so it happened the second time , again loosing hours of work, I tried retrieving it from history, but the history was blank too, only saved the sketch when I first started, considering I was almost done when it shut down, so a big middle thumb up for this app… I’m fuming..Version: 2.7.9
✓ CrashesFinally given up. Crashes when it saves, crashes when I try to colour fill. Soooo slow. Nothing seems to work even after reloading it. Twice I have lost hours of work. Use to love this app but too frustrating and time wasting to stick with it. Too many issues lately..Version: 3.6.0
✓ Bring back Adobe DrawThe app is fine but not as good as Adobe Draw. At least make all the brushes available that were available on Adobe Draw..Version: 3.5.0
✓ Not user friendlyNothing works as it should, miss comp, draw and sketch.Version: 4.8.0
✓ Bring back SketchI’m sure this app is great, but this review is my plea for Adobe to bring Sketch back online. I’m a Set Designer in Chicago and when I started working here in 2017, all of the Senior Designers were still using grid paper and pencil to draw their sets. I bought myself an iPad and found Sketch and it changed everything. It was just one step above pencil & paper - very basic and intuitive and had everything we needed to get the job done. Finding Sketch lead to every designer in our company getting a iPad and going digital. Designers who have been in the business for 30+ years, who never thought they’d be able to learn a software, were confidently drawing on their iPads because it was SO easy to use. This switch will be catastrophic as it’s just too complex and the features are unnecessary for what we’re doing. I think the apps are completely different and Sketch is the perfect app for entry-level digital design or basic digital drawing. You can become familiar with a base level of Adobe vocabulary without feeling completely overwhelmed and left behind. Unfortunately Fresco will alienate half of our team and we’ll be forced to find something else :(.Version: 3.2.3
✓ Could be greatI’ve been using Adobe Fresco for a little while now, and the ability to combine vector, pixel & live brush strokes in one app is really useful at times this could be an exceptional drawing app. Unfortunately for my style of very detailed vector line illustrations, the app is almost unusable as after about an hour it will slow down so much that I’ve had to start doing parts of my drawing over 3 or so different canvases then putting them together on Adobe Illustrator, not to mention the bucket fill doesn’t work at all unless you use it at the beginning. I use the basic taper vector brush mostly, and usually only a single colour. It seems that it just can’t handle the information produced quite quickly, which gives a massive lag in brush strokes. I really hope this is fixed soon as I never had this issue on Adobe Draw, and currently I wish I’d not switched over..Version: 1.6.1
✓ AdobeAlright im gonna say this now, dont buy this. and to the devs, make this better, period. first off, for all the good brushes, u have to pay. yes, actual money. and its 10 dollars A MONTH. NOT A ONE TIME PAY, BUT A MONTH. im not paying that much for just a drawing software. second of all. the learning stuff when u first open the app, it doesnt help. it didnt help me. it didnt help my friends. third of all, wheres the blending brush? this would be SOOOO much better if we had a blending brush. this app, ALONE, overheated my drawing ipad. thats horrible too! fourth thing, half of the stuff is copied from procreate.... in a bad way! (procreate is so much better tho). fifth, the bucket drop tool leaves white spaces in between!!! EXCUSE ME?! I mean, i mine as well draw on that crappy “paint” software thats always on computes!!!! sixth, everytime i draw a line, it goes on another layer. jesus, i dont expect every time i try to draw i get another layer!!!! and besides, half of the brushes arent even compatible with an apple pen. LIKE?!???!??!?! my god, its not that hard to make ur thing better. please PLEASSSEEE dont waste ur email, money, and time for this, costumers. i dont like this one bit..Version: 1.9.0
✓ Crashes constantlyCan’t access watercolour or oil paints and can’t open any previous documents or the whole app crashes, so a lot of lost work. Unfortunately spent money on digital pens to be able to use this but doesn’t seem compatible with Windows. Seems like this has been an issue for years and still unresolved..Version: 3.4.0
✓ Promising, very promisingReally well thought out approach to layers and the amount of flexibility makes this very useful - what a great start. Please make it possible to change undo sensitivity, nearly every other time I rest my hand on the screen ‘undo’ is triggered, really annoying. Favourite vector brushes - please please please allow me to save vector brushes as favorites, with sizes and dynamics, at the moment favorite vector brushes change according to default brush settings, rendering vector brush favorites useless..Version: 1.0.2
🙂 Adobe Fresco: Painting Studio Positive Reviews
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