Colors are just a click away from you when you are drawing and painting in Adobe Fresco. Picking a color from your canvas or choosing a color from the color wheel is just like dipping a real brush in a color palette.

And there are benefits that only a digital tool can give you - like quick access to recently used colors (your color history). 

Your color tools in Adobe Fresco are Color Chip  and Eyedropper . Both of these tools are right there on the Adobe Fresco toolbar.

Tapping the Color Chip icon opens the Color panel, and you'll find the color wheel to play with hue, saturation, opacity, and more.

How to choose colors

1. Tap the Color Chip icon to display the Color panel.
2. Move the color stop on the color wheel to choose a color. 
3. Adjust the hue, saturation, and brightness using the HSB sliders. Similarly, use RGB sliders to fine-tune the color you have chosen.
4. Select a brush or the Fill  tool to apply the color to your artwork.

Recolor using Fill tool

You can now use the Fill  tool for faster and more precise recoloring while preserving the targeted color pattern of the original artwork. 

Want to pick a color from your canvas?

Long press with your finger anywhere on the canvas to activate the Eyedropper tool and quickly sample any color.

The long press gesture on canvas to bring up the Eyedropper tool is enabled by default.

You can change the duration of the long press gesture required to bring up the Eyedropper tool, or disable it. Go to App settings >Input > Touch:

• To disable the gesture: Turn off the Long press for eyedropper toggle.
  
• To change the duration of the long press gesture: Use the Duration slider.

Where are my foreground and background colors?

In Adobe Fresco, you don't have to worry about managing foreground and background colors. The Color Chip icon shows the most recent color used, including the opacity.

Create a multicolor swatch

Want to load your brush with multiple colors? Use the multicolor swatch to paint an array of colors using a single brush stroke.

Does multicolor swatch work with all types of brushes?

All live brushes and most pixel brushes (except Sketching and Marker brushes) support multicolor swatches. Vector brushes do not support multicolor swatches.

Learn more

"Multicolor selection is a powerful feature in Adobe Fresco that will open up a world of possibilities for any artists. Any pixel brush or watercolor brush can be used to sample literally any area of the canvas to create a new multicolor swatch."

To learn how to create a multicolor painting effect, watch this video.

Viewing time: 3 minutes

Do more with multicolor swatch

Access colors from Creative Cloud libraries

Have a question or an idea?

We've got you started with colors in Adobe Fresco. The interface of Adobe Fresco is intuitive; we hope you will find it easy to unleash your creativity with colors, brushes, 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.