Adobe Fresco is iPad's next drawing app

It is designed for a broad range of novice and expert artists

Adobe announced in a blog post that it is set to release its new drawing and painting app for iPad called Adobe Fresco later this year.

The unique selling point of the app is its Live Brushes, which would mimic the way paint would mix and blend in reality.  Inspired by the Renaissance-style painting technique, where water-based pigments are applied to wet plaster, the app will use artificial intelligence (AI) to make watercolours bloom and react with each other.

Sunflower by David Every. PHOTO: ADOBE



“With an oil Live Brush, you can slather on a thick coat of paint and see the ridges and brush strokes that give the painting dimension. And you can mix different oil colours together to create a varied swirl of colour that no digital colour wheel could ever provide,” the blog said.

The app lets the artists use features of Adobe Illustrator Draw and Photoshop Sketch as it allows them to draw with vector and raster brushes. Adobe Fresco will support Photoshop files across the Creative Cloud and it will also export in PDF format for artists to edit in Illustrator.

"Turtle" by Paul Trani. PHOTO: ADOBE



The user interface of the app would be similar to Photoshop app for iPad, which is also set to release this year.  Fresco is designed for a broad range of novice and expert artists as anyone would be able to take advantage of tools like layers, masking and sections in the workplace.

If artists want to try Fresco, they can do so by applying for their pre-release testing here.

The article originally appeared in The Verge