I’ll give Adobe the benefit of the doubt in imagining that they will address this in future desktop versions, since I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who will feel like this. This simple tool is one that a digital painter uses profusely and infinitely, it can’t be a pain in the butt to activate. Even worse if you take into account that you can only activate this by having an actual touch graphic tablet or graphic monitor (I have a multitouch Wacom Cintiq, so I was lucky, but most desktop users won’t). This might be great for touch devices, but for desktop users it is highly annoying. So I went to look for help and I found that in order to use the eyedropper tool on the fly, you have to first activate the “touch shortcut” button and then touch and hold anywhere on the screen until the eyedropper tool appears under your cursor. I naturally pressed the button 1 on my stylus, which is what I do when I want to do this from most painting programs, like Photoshop. That would be ok, given you can work comfortably from the desktop (after all, this is the desktop version, right?) Oh, wait…Īfter playing with my first few strokes here and there, I wanted to activate the eyedropper tool to pick a color from the canvas. For artists, illustrators, animators, sketchers, and anyone who wants to discover, or rediscover, the joy of drawing and painting.Īt first glance, it looks and feels very much like most contemporary mobile device graphic apps look.

It was conceptually developed for touch devices, so I’m curious to know how it translates to the desktop (my preferred way of working).Īccording to Adobe, the idea of Adobe Fresco is to combine vector and raster brushes, plus revolutionary live brushes, to deliver a completely natural painting and drawing experience.

I’m going to take a look at it and tell you my first impressions. Since then, I’ve been waiting for the desktop version and now it’s finally here.

When I first heard about Adobe Fresco I got really excited, only to find out it was only for mobile devices.

Adobe fresco live brushes