Brush Type
Learn how to draw and paint, and manage pixel brushes in Adobe Fresco.
With Adobe Fresco, you get a large collection of brushes, both raster, and vector. And you can use them on the same canvas. Use the Pixel Brushes
and Live Brushes icons in the toolbar to access the collection of brushes for raster drawing, painting, and sketching.You can also import your favorite Photoshop brushes or get more brushes from Kyle T. Webster's ever-growing collection.
Discover the joy of painting with thousands of pixel brushes
Follow these steps to choose a pixel brush and customize its settings:
When you start drawing with the pixel brush, you will notice this
icon on the layer thumbnail indicating that it's a pixel layer.When using pixel brushes, you can add a range of mixer brushes to blend and mix multiple colors naturally.
Brush Type |
When to use |
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Basic |
Make use of the standard round brushes to create basic drawings. |
Comics |
Draw comics using Cross Hatch and Halftone brushes. |
Charcoal |
Make gesture studies, loose sketches, or figure construction. |
Dry Media |
Blend sketches with paintings using Pencil, Pastel, Graphite, Crayon, and Chalk brushes. |
FX |
Create artwork with special effects using Clouds, Dusty, Foliage, and Ink brushes. |
Ink |
Create calligraphic artwork using Comics, Brush, Blake, Fountain pens, and Belgian and Classic comic brushes. |
Lettering |
Make sign paintings, calligraphic, blueprints, and posters using Chisel, Chunk, Comics letterer, Gritty, and Letter Rake brushes. |
Marker |
Render your ideas with realistic digital markers using Marker Brush and Chisel brushes. |
Mixer |
Mix colors on the canvas and combine colors on a brush. |
Painting |
Make various paintings using Canvas, Cezanne, Bristle, and Blair brushes. |
Rakes |
Create multi-line strokes on canvas using Grit, Short, Textured, Tilt, and Pressure brushes. |
Sketching |
Make sketches before painting using Pencil and Pen sketching brushes. |
As you change a setting, you can preview the effect live while drawing in the Brush Settings panel. Tap on the reset icon, at the bottom of the panel, to go back to the default settings. You can also adjust the pressure curve for better stylus pressure.
Choose an option to set how two colors blend.
Set the size and roundness of the brush.
Enhance any paint's color, hue, saturation, brightness jitter settings, and color dynamics while drawing a stroke in Fresco.
To modify your color dynamics, tap on Brush settings and then on Color dynamics to pick one of the brush options from below:
Brush settings |
Used to |
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Off |
Specify no control over the color variance of brush marks. |
Fade |
Vary the color of paint between the foreground color and the background color. |
Pen Pressure / Pen Tilt / Stylus Wheel / Rotation |
Modify the paint color between the foreground and background colors based on the pen pressure, tilt, position, or rotation. |
Hue Jitter |
Define a percentage by which the paint hue can vary in a stroke. Type a number, or use the slider to enter a value. |
Saturation Jitter |
Choose a percentage by which the paint saturation can vary in a stroke. Type a number, or use the slider to enter a value. |
Brightness Jitter |
Mention a percentage by which the paint brightness can vary in a stroke. Type a number, or use the slider to enter a value. |
Purity |
Increase or decrease the saturation of the color. Type a number, or use the slider to enter a percentage between –100 and 100. |
Apply per tip |
Specify changing color for each distinct tip stamp in a stroke. If unchecked, dynamic changes occur once at the beginning of each stroke. |
To set a percentage by which the paint color can vary, type a number, or use the slider to enter a value.
Photoshop pixel brushes are the industry-standard brushes. In addition to the default pixel brushes, import Photoshop brushes saved to your library, or choose from the huge collection of celebrated brushmaker Kyle T. Webster.
You can hide all the brushes that you never use, by hiding entire Pixel brush categories or any individual brushes within categories.
At least one brush collection must be visible. You cannot hide all of your brush collections.
To manage your brushes:
Hide and show brushes
Brush stamp preview enables you to use pixel brushes and eraser more precisely by creating patterns the moment your finger or pencil touches the screen surface. Your brush stamp preview is set to Off by default.
Live brushes or Vector erasers can also use the brush stamp preview feature.
To enable the brush stamp preview:
Here are some sample previews of brush stamps:
We've got you started with pixel brushes in Adobe Fresco. The interface of Adobe Fresco is intuitive. We hope you will find it easy to unleash your creativity with pixel brushes, live brushes, mixer brushes, vector brushes, colors, and more.
If you have a question to ask or an idea to share, come and participate in Adobe Fresco Community. We would love to hear from you and see your creations.
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