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.
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 and Fountain pens, Belgian and Classic comics 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 combining colors on a brush. |
Painting | Make various types of 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.
Use the slider to adjust the size of the hard center of your brush. At the minimum value, your brush stroke is blurred and at the maximum value, the clarity of the brush stroke is sharp and clear.
Use the slider to adjust the spaces in your brush strokes. At minimum value, your brush stroke is continuous and at maximum value, the brush stroke is separated with white spaces like a dotted line.
Use the slider to tweak the angle of your brush so you can draw chiseled strokes. The roundness of your brush tip should be a smaller value for getting brush strokes with sharper angles.
Choose an option to set how two colors blend.
Set the size and roundness of the brush.
Choose how you want the brush tip to scatter along the axes to create a spraylike stroke.
Choose an option to control how the paint changes over the course of a stroke.
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:
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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