Its alsolike Adobes great Lightroom for iPadreally easy to use.

That’s the phone."

For a start, theres no texture or feedback.

Adobe Fresco running on iPhone

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“It’s a very new medium,” he said in an interviewduring a 2013 exhibition.

We wont get deep into features, but there are a few things worth nothing.

A pixel brush is what you think it is.

Adobe Fresco’s Publish and Export options applied to a portrait on iPad

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It lays down colors onto the virtual canvas, much like all painting apps.

A vector brush is different.

This is how apps likeAdobes Illustratorwork.

Adobe Fresco’s smudge brushes and dry media options on iPad

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“An example that I like to use is trees,” says Webster.

“I took a photo of a tree in my front yard and I just photographed the bark.

And now I can start painting with it.

The tree bark is pressure sensitive.

I can resize it up to a thousand pixels, and it’s a full RGB brush.”

In the end, painting is about feel.

Fresco feels good, but perhaps Procreate feels better to you.

The good news is that Fresco is free, so its easy to try out.

Its pretty neat having a whole painting kit in your pocket.