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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
- Accessibility in Fresco
- 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
- Pixel brushes
- Live brushes
- Vector brushes
- Mixer brushes
- Ribbon brushes
- Adjust pressure curve on stylus
- Colors
- Paint inside boundaries
- Apply motion to artwork
- Free Transform tool
- 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
- Symmetry
- Adobe Fresco and Creative Cloud apps
- Cloud documents
- Troubleshooting
- Examples, ideas, and inspiration
Learn all about the Adobe Fresco workspace on the iPhone.
You can create magic on the canvas with Fresco on your iPhone. Use your favorite drawing tools to create, modify, and easily export your designs across devices and platforms while on the move.
Before you start your creative journey, check the supported iPhone versions that let you be creative on the go.
Read on to discover the features and functionalities of Fresco on the iPhone.
Fresco workspace on the iPhone
You can start creating your designs from the Home screen and proceed to the editing workspace. In the workspace, you can find your favorite Fresco tools and other options to help you 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're 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 files: Displays the list of all cloud documents that you've 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
An intuitive workspace lets you focus on your creative work. The Editor screen is a gateway to your drawing tools and their controls.
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: Create a new layer.
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, and more) and Layer properties (blend, opacity). To view contextually available layer actions, select the layer preview icon.
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 or show the layer stack. You can also rearrange layers and move some elements of your artwork to the foreground or background.
Tap on the layer preview icon to hide the layer stack.
Tap on the layer preview icon to unhide the layer stack.
Brushes, erasers, and smudge tools
With a virtual smorgasbord of powerful brushes, you can create natural-looking digital paintings that reproduce gorgeous watercolors and creamy oil paint textures.
The Eraser does more than fix mistakes in Fresco; it works more like a brush. You can also 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 and blend mode of your strokes.
L - Reset: Change back to default settings.
Tools
Finding your way around the tools within Fresco will be key to how efficiently you design your artwork. From mixing colors 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 available actions while a selection is active on the canvas.
Add text layers to your artwork, pick fonts from Adobe Fonts, or add custom 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 custom fonts.
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 the 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.
Related resources
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