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- Adobe Fresco User Guide
- Introduction
- What's new in Adobe Fresco
- What is Adobe Fresco
- System requirements for Adobe Fresco
- Release notes for Adobe Fresco
- Adobe Fresco on the iPhone
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Adobe Fresco | Common questions
- Get started with the user interface
- Upgrade to a paid plan of Adobe Fresco
- Upgrade storage for Adobe Fresco
- Supported features on iPad and Windows devices
- Draw, paint, animate, and share
- Layers
- Shapes in Adobe Fresco
- Colors
- Mixer brushes
- Pixel brushes
- Ribbon brushes
- Live brushes
- Adjust pressure curve on stylus
- Vector brushes
- Free Transform tool
- Apply motion to artwork
- Magic Wand tool
- Smudge tool
- Liquify tool
- Add and modify text
- Publish, export, and share
- Layer masks
- Access Creative Cloud libraries in Fresco
- Ruler
- Erasers
- Add your own font
- Grids alignment
- Adobe Fresco and Creative Cloud apps
- Cloud documents
- Troubleshooting
- Examples, Ideas, and Inspirations
Fresco on the iPhone gives you freedom to create your artwork anywhere inspiration strikes. Take a quick tour of the workspace and learn where your favorite tools and features are available.
With Adobe Fresco on your iPhone, you're all set to create magic on the canvas! Use your favorite drawing tools to create, modify, and seamlessly export your designs across devices and platforms while on the move.
Read on to discover the features and functionalities of Fresco on the iPhone. Before you start your creative journey, check the supported iPhone versions that lets you be creative on the go!

Fresco on the iPhone workspace | Your creative journey begins!
The workspace in Fresco on the iPhone allows you to quickly create, edit, and export your documents all from one location. Read on to learn how to use the reimagined workspace to get started with your design journey!
From the Home screen, you can start creating your designs and proceed to the editing workspace. In the workspace, you can find your favorite Fresco tools and other options that will equip you to create and retouch your artwork.

A - App Settings: Configures the options for the Interface, Quick export settings, restore, and timelapse settings.
B - File Sync: Displays the sync status of your cloud documents. When you are offline, the icon changes to .
C - Create New: Create a cloud document.
D - Import and Open: Import and open Photoshop files, Sketch projects or Draw projects.
E - Your work: Displays the list of all cloud documents that you have created and saved to Creative Cloud.
F - Learn: Explore the many possibilities of using Fresco on the iPhone through these tutorials.
G - Discover: Browse creations on Behance. Follow creators and watch professionals in the creative industry livestream their creative process.
Workspace and layers
A simple and intuitive workspace lets you focus on your creative work. The Editor screen is a gateway to your drawing tools and their controls. Want to edit and enhance your artwork? Work with a single layer or with multiple layers to keep different elements of your artwork separate.

A - Tool bar: Access tools to create and modify your designs.
B - Selection tool: Toggles between the selected tool and the options for that tool.
C - Top panel: Options to undo, redo, and export.
D - Layer stack: Access layer stack. Don't see them? Tap the layer preview icon.

A - Add layer: Adds a new layer to the layer stack.
B - Key layer actions: Tap on a layer twice to access a pop up menu of highly used layer actions.
C - All layer actions: Displays a list of all the layer actions.
D - Layer preview- Toggles the layer stack on/off.
E - Bottom bar: View available Layer actions (add, hide, clear, delete layers, etc), and Layer properties (blend, opacity, etc). To view contextually available layer actions, tap the layer preview icon at the bottom of the stack.
Minimize layer stack for an expanded workspace
Need a flexible workspace to edit and enhance your artwork? Tap on the Layer preview icon to hide the layer stack. Tap on the layer icon again to show the layer stack so you can rearrange layers and move some elements of your artwork to the foreground or background. When the layer stack is hidden, the layer preview icon is a mini-thumbnail of the selected layer or layer group.

Tap on the layer preview icon to hide the layer stack.

Tap on the layer preview icon to unhide the layer stack.
Brushes, eraser, and smudge tools
With a virtual smorgasboard of powerful brushes at your fingertips, you can create natural looking digital paintings that reproduce gorgeous watercolors and creamy oil paint textures.
The Eraser does a great deal more than simply fix mistakes in Fresco; works more like a brush, use it to remove lines and color from your drawing and watch your designs come alive!

A - Pixel brushes: Access built-in Pixel brushes and Library brushes.
B - Live brushes: Access watercolor and oil brushes.
C - Vector brushes: Access vector brushes.
D - Eraser: Choose an eraser.
E - Smudge: Choose a smudge brush.
F - Selection tool: Indicates which tool is currently selected.
G - Color: Select a color.
H - Brush size: Choose a suitable brush size.
I - Flow: Change the flow of the pigments to your brush.
J - Smoothening: Controls the smoothing of your brush.
K - Brush Settings: Control the spacing , blend mode, etc., of your strokes.
L - Reset: Change back to default settings.
Tools
Finding your way around the tools within Fresco is going to be key to how efficiently you design your artwork. From mixing colors together with the brush to integrating texture, Fresco contains brushes crafted to look and feel like traditional ones.

F - Color: Open the color panel.
G - Selection tool: Toggles between the selected tool and the options for that tool.
H - Selection actions: Prompt to close or cancel the lasso selection.
I - Selection: Select a part of the active layer.
J - Selection actions: Choose from any of the available actions while a selection is active on the canvas.
Add text layers to your artwork, pick fonts from Adobe Fonts, or add your own fonts. You can further modify the font style using typography settings.

A - Text tool: Add text to the canvas.
B - Handles: Resize or rotate the text.
C - Selection tool: Toggles between the text tool and the options for the text.
D - Layer properties: Click the back arrow to adjust the layer properties like opacity and blend mode.
E - Text options: Keyboard, Fonts, and Text properties are displayed in this area when the text is active on the canvas.
F - Keyboard: Displays a keyboard using which you can edit text.
G - Fonts: Choose a font from Adobe Fonts, browse font categories, or add your own font.
H - Text properties: Change font size, spacing, and alignment.
Full screen mode
Tap between normal and full screen modes and hide or unhide your tools and layers for maximum space and unhindered creativity.

A - Full Screen: Switches to full screen mode.
B - Normal Screen: Switches back to normal screen mode.
C - Displays layers.
D - Displays toolbar and its settings.
Publish, export, and help
Touch shortcuts and learn gestures
Use touch shortcuts to access alternate actions of a selected tool on your device. You can quickly perform common actions using gestures to interact with the touch-based user interface.
Get inspiration from Behance
Behance has a variety of artwork created with Adobe Fresco. Tap on the videos to see streams created by artists showcasing their workflow in the app.
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