as someone who's used procreate for years I recently made the switch to Adobe Fresco and have not looked back Adobe Fresco is an incredibly simple yet powerful app that is great for beginners or professional artists in my opinion the benefits of this app far outweigh something like procreate I'll keep the detailed comparison between Adobe Fresco and procreate to another video but I do want to go over three quick reasons why I think Fresco in my opinion is better than procreate number one it's free if you want to pay to access additional brush sets or increase your Adobe Creative Cloud Storage you can always upgrade for $9.99 per year that's less than 84 cents per month or a little bit less than 3 pennies a day that's a hell of a bargain number two is that it syncs with Adobe Creative Cloud and it syncs across multiple different devices so I can start a project on my iPad Pro move that to my iPad Mini move that to my iPhone and then move that back to my desktop that's something that you just don't get with procreate unfortunately having the flexibility to take your digital art studio with you wherever you go across multiple different devices is a very important factor for me personally and I feel like that flexibility is beneficial for frankly any artist whether you're just a hobbyist or professional number three and honestly the funnest of what's my favorite in Fresco is that you get to add motion to your artwork this isn't full-blown animation software as you would typically think of animation software yet yes you can animate and procreate but you're limited to frame by frame animation which means you you literally have to draw every single picture within your animation scene so think of this as the old school flip book Styles where every single page has a progression of the art and as you're flipping through it you get the motion that's basically what you can do in procreate now you can also do that in Fresco but Fresco has really cool motion options available which are unlike anything I've seen in another app so again it's not a full animation software but you can animate your artwork and Fresco makes it incredibly Dynamic and just like super simple to to do if you have brush sets that are set up with procreate for example those are not going to transfer over to Fresco but let's say you're coming from something like Photoshop Photoshop files are Fresco files and so photoshop brushes are also Fresco brushes so that will transfer seamlessly which is great new programs can be super intimidating to learn especially if you already have a workflow with your current program so in this video I'm going to demonstrate all of the tools within Adobe Fresco very briefly so that you can see each and every tool within Fresco if you're a fresco beginner feel free to go on ahead right now and download the Fresco app so that you can work right alongside of me with your iPad and if you're just curious to the Fresco features but you're not yet sold on downloading the app feel free to grab a coffee or a hot tea and join me and of course as you have questions or comments please feel free to drop them down below and hopefully you can help future viewers of this video okay so it's time to get started so I'll meet you at the iPad first I want to go over the menu options over here on the left side so you have your home screen what this is going to represent is pretty much all of your recent documentation so any document that you've worked on in Fresco or in Photoshop you're going to find all of your most recent artwork right here underneath home you're going to the learn button which this is really cool so Adobe has done a really great job to create any type of live tutorials you have Hands-On tutorials so you can sort of walk through with them and learn all the different features um quick tips live brushes you've got motion layers pretty much anything that you're looking for you can find it here there's also a discover tab I don't really use this a lot but I think this is for people that are streaming you can tune in I'm not really sure so then working on down you have your files which is all of your recent files you have shared with you so this is really neat if you have a couple friends you've got an artist group and you're all utilizing Fresco you can share work with them seamlessly so if you wanted to let's say do a collaboration with an artist this is where you can share your work directly with them and um utilize sort of this collaborative space it's really kind of neat then of course you have your deleted files and so that pretty much covers the home screen when you immediately jump into Fresco okay so let's go to create a new document and you can see here under this start a new document I have custom size and a couple of my sizes here if you prefer to work with a typical size let's say maybe it's a YouTube thumbnail or right here for this 10801920 that's great for like Instagram reels or YouTube shorts or Tik toks you can create a screen size or resolution that you prefer to work in and save that as your own size I just have it called my size but you could title it whatever you wanted so let's jump in here to this custom size really quickly you can see here that I have there's recent sizes saved digital options and then print options all of your print options are going to stay at 300 PPI which is 300 pixels per inch it's going to give you the best printing quality if you do plan to print your work so Adobe has done a great job of creating a lot of these standard sizes that you might be using there's comic book A4 you've got a large postcard small postcard poster A3 A2 Etc on the digital side they also do a really good job of giving you standard HD full HD 4K 8K and web illustrations so if you don't know where to start just jump in and pick one of the preset options and so for this demonstration we're just going to utilize this 1080 by1 1920 and that's great for Instagram reels YouTube shorts Tik toks Etc okay so the first thing that you're going to notice over here in Fresco on this left side we're going to kind of work from the left side down and then we'll move our way over to the right side so over here on this left side you're going to notice that the main difference between Fresco and procreate is these brushes um and this this is really what sets Fresco apart from procore your first set of brushes are going to be your pixel brushes these are going to range from literally anything you can have basic brushes charcoal dry media ink lettering painting sketching you name it Fresco always defaults to the pencil and so you're always going to have this default pencil when you click on your pixel brush okay so you can kind of see that that's the pencil if I use the tip of my pencil it or the tip of my apple pencil it looks more like uh really hard and it is pressure sensitive so as I lighten up and if we wanted to let's say do some form of shading with the side of the pencil you know we can kind of do that so let's back out of that and to back out of that over here on the top of your screen you have two arrows you have one pointing back and one pointing forward your front is your redo button and your back is your undo button okay a common misconception with Fresco is that there's some sort of lag or delay whereas like procreate the brushes are instantaneous like as soon as you're making brush Strokes they're laying down so something that Fresco and procreate do very very differently is this smoothing so if you look over here in this little wheel right here you've got obviously your color wheel um which you can grab your colors and then you have your brush size that you can adjust here you also have your flow so you can lower the opacity or the flow of your brush if you maybe don't want to push out as much ink um but then you have this little squiggle line and this is called smoothing so let's move over here let's use this brush with no smoothing uh that's too big oh if you'll notice I just a quick um shortcut to undo is instead of pushing your back arrow you can just tap two fingers on your iPad and it will delete okay let's do a pencil for example let's have the smoothing all the way down on the pencil and let's say hello and then if we turn the smoothing all the way up hello you'll see that like these little strokes right in here and in here just kind of seem to smooth out a little bit so it really helps when you're doing Line work and um let's say that you want to draw something like super well I'm a little too too far zoomed in but let's say you want to draw something like super squiggly and you're having to trace like so oops when you turn your smoothing all the way up if you were to do like a similar line why is this it's just going to create a much smoother effect um so some people think that that's like actually delaying the brush I don't necessarily notice a delay um you know this is a feature that procreate definitely does not have it will not proc crate will not allow you to smooth or adjust the smoothing while you're actually working um you can adjust brush settings and procreate I'm not trying to say that you can't I just like the way that fres does it better all right so moving on these are really cool we're going to move on to the live brushes so if you are an artist who works primarily with any kind of wet media traditionally I'm talking acrylic brushes watercolors any type of wet media even oil brushes you can literally recreate your traditional media digitally and I know this sounds crazy and you're not going to believe me but hang in there because this is is truly incredible and major differentiator between Fresco and procreate so let's dive into this really quickly so let's say we just want to use a watercolor soft wash okay and let's go with maybe I don't know let's go with like a pretty red so as I start to brush you'll notice the media and I can kind of layer on top of it right so as I just hold down my brush like or my pencil and kind of wiggle it about you can see how it's acting just like a watercolor which is really really cool I mean the fact that they have done this it's pretty remarkable it's almost like it's activated like um you're pushing paint on the screen it feels just like the real thing it's pretty trippy um and then a cool thing that you can also o do is this little circle thing right here if you double tap that it's your touch modifier and you see over here on the right this little blue icon popping up that says pure water so let's say that I maybe made this blot like too dark or something and we didn't want to make it so dark I can literally paint with just pure water and I can also come in here if I tap this little this little touch bar over here if I tap the water button I can change my water flow you guys this is this is unreal like this is crazy that we have this at our disposal you can have a full-blown Art Studio the amount of tools available to you in this program is unfreaking believable it's unreal okay so we can change our water flow if we wanted which is just super cool and then if I want to go back to just painting with just paint I just double tap that touch modifier and uh can do that but let's say we want to like mix in maybe some blue or something so as I mix in blue and layer it on top you'll see that it almost like Blends the colors like purple which is naturally what blue and red create so I'll show you over here in the corner this is what the blue looks like just naturally and then if I start sort of merging it in to this red I'm getting this really beautiful like deep magenta almost like a fuchsia color stunning if you're a traditional watercolorist you've got to play around with this because this is so cool I um I'm not a huge watercolor artist I typically worked with acrylics but this is pretty remarkable okay so let's back out of the watercolors and of course to do that you're going to touch your undo button let's get out of the watercolor and let's do some oil so let's go with the oil paint round so as I'm painting this this is freaking crazy you guys as I'm painting this you can see the thickness of the paint like let's kind of zoom in here a little bit do you sort of see this like let me get uh do you sort of see this right in here well let's see this right in here the thickness of the paint the oil paint this is so cool how they did this okay so what you can do is you can change your paint mix right here you want 100% paint mix um you can make it a little bit thicker you can also change your flow so let's say that we wanted like let's move to a different part here let's say we didn't want to use that thick oil paint we maybe we like to work in layers and we like to kind of build those layers with our painting you can change your flow here so that you're just creating a super easy texture and as you want to maybe lay down that first layer and then let's say that you wanted possibly some yellow and make it a little bit thicker you can kind of come in here and make it a little bit thicker and again with these live brushes as you're laying down paint you are blending the paint so it's going to stay a wet media and you can see I'm over here in this left side you can see that I have the yellow as my current color and so as I'm this is it just without contamination from the blue and as I'm pushing this into the blue you can see that I'm creating this beautiful uh like green like blue green color and this is how you can make crazy crazy palettes and I have a completely separate video on blending colors and creating your own palette here in Fresco so if that's something you're interested in definitely check out the link in the description we won't go too much into that in here um because I could spend a lot of time just talking through these live brushes and these oil brushes but it's really it's really pretty remarkable what um Fresco has done here and if again again if we wanted to cake it on really thick we could do that and you can just see just the the texture here um we also can make the brushes bigger and then of course we can change brushes if we wanted like a short brush um maybe we wanted like a big sort of chunky brush you know you can change that as you need let's back out of those okay I want to touch really quickly on something it's pretty fantastic um back on the live brushes so let's grab ourselves the oil paint round and let's paint with we don't want that big of a brush let's just paint here with some of this red I think that red is really pretty and this is what's pretty incredible with these live brushes so here I have an oil paint and now I'm going to go with a basic watercolor and I'm going to pick this bright yellow I can actually come in here with a watercolor my yellow is my watercolor my red is my oil and blend watercolors and oils this absolutely cannot happen in real life um which is is just crazy like the fact that you can do this and again we can change our water flow and we can change the actual flow of the pigment like if we wanted it to be lighter maybe that yellow I call it loading the brush like maybe it's too loaded it's got too much pigment and you want to slowly build your layers you can start with a really soft pigment look at this as I'm touching these live edges over here it's just filling out and especially up in here as I'm working and just sort of twisting my brush here let me zoom in on this you can see the colors just sort of mixing and if I wanted to go back to my oil brush um I think it was just oil paint round we're going to grab our red you know I can blend right in with this watercolor and create this really beautiful orange red orange like that's you cannot do this in real life you cannot take oil paint and like mix it with water it just it doesn't work like that so this is what makes Fresco truly magical and the options are absolutely unlimited as an artist um and even if you don't consider yourself an artist maybe you're just crafty and you just like to sort of like puts around on these different programs and you like to push yourself and you like to learn and this is so much fun to go in here and play with this it's so much fun um yeah just absolutely freaking incredible another thing worth mentioning when you do have your live brushes pulled up you get a feature down here that um you don't necessarily get when you're working with a pixel brush so in a pixel brush if you go over here to your brush settings you can kind of see I mean you can this is a little bit more advanced for beginners um but you can really play with like the pressure and the shape Dynamics and the pretty much build your own brush if you wanted but in the live brush the um you'll notice a few things change here and you have different textures so you can have canvas texture or no texture while you're utilizing with um the oil paints and you can kind of see the best way to do it is if I change my flow to not very much or better yet like my paint mix you can see here that that creates a canvas-like texture and if I wanted to turn that off I could just say texture none and then when I come in here you can tell the difference between these two Blues right here I prefer to keep the texture on uh the canvas texture I just think it's so beautiful that you can mimic that the last of our brush set is going to be the vector brushes the first brush set is a pixel brush or a raster brush and just to show you the difference in the pixel or raster brush and let's use maybe um I've got oops so this is going to be our raster brush and this is a brush that has a little bit more of um a texture to it so with the raster or pixel brushes you can see that as I'm zooming in you're getting a lot of pixelation right like you can see those pixels and it is clear this is pixel art if you prefer to work in so let's just draw that like that if you prefer to work in Vector you can see that as I'm zooming in the difference is I can zoom in infinitely on this brush and the lines are going to stay super crispy super clean so if you need work to be vectorized you can utilize that here in Fresco and you'll see up here that um obviously that is raster now one thing you'll notice and we are going to get to layers but it's worth mentioning over over here is the vector layer you can see is a vector by the Little Bullseye number that it has on it and that coincides over here with the brush that also has the Little Bullseye on it the pixel brush which is this layer sort of has almost like um checker board pattern to represent the pixels which also connects perfectly with the pixel brush up here and if we were just to show you guys to use a live brush that's going to stay on your pixel layer because those are pixel brushes so the cool thing with Fresco is you can interchangeably go from a pixel or rasler layer to vector layer and work with it all in the same uh piece of art but it will automatically segregate the layers between your pixel layer and your vector layer which is super cool okay moving on um we have the Eraser which I don't use the Eraser a whole whole bunch um let's say let's get like let's get some better colors in here um let's do maybe this orange so with your eraser it's going to default to whatever their default pixel ER erasers are which isn't bad but when you're working with something sometimes you want to to maintain like this particular brush that I'm using True Grit texture supplyco um crispy incor that's one of my favorite brushes on here and you'll see that it kind of has this texture to it almost like a Sharpie or like a felt some type of felt pen or something and I really like that opposed to just like a clean line like for example um their hard round brush is just going to be a typical hard round so let's say that I've created artwork with this hard round and I want to erase with the hard round I just take my little touch modifier and double tap and then you'll see up here in the left it says erase with brush so I'm now erasing with the current brush that I have been creating my art artwork with and let's say that I didn't have the uh let's say that I had the crispy inor right and I wanted to erase with that you can see that as I'm erasing here on this Edge right here it looks identical to the opposite Edge over here so if you want to maintain texture you double tap this little touch modifier and this thing floats around the screen so you can move this wherever you want and then you're erasing with the current brush that you have one thing I wanted to note while you have pixel brushes you have all these favorites that you can favorite so let's say you like a certain lettering brush like the chunk you've got an option here for a star you can just favorite that and then anytime that you come into these pixel brushes and you hit favorites you're going to see down here at the bottom now I have my chunk brush another really cool feature with brushes that Fresco does is within your artwork it creates a database and a library for all of the brushes that you've utilized in a session and so for this particular session with pixel brushes you can see that as I go over here to the recent it's got a list of the pencil that we started out with the hard round and the True Grit texture Supply Company crispy inchor really really cool moving down the line we have the finger which is a smudge tool you can see that Fresco defaults this to just a graphite smudger this is something that's really cool with the smudge tool so if we go to smudge and we change our brush to if we go to FX and we go to spatter 2 for example if we we have our really thick juicy paint here if we start to tap on our paint look at what happens here we can create actual indentations in our paint and texturize with this so maybe let's go back to the oil let's make sure we're on oil here um live brush yep we at the oil paint and let's make this maybe um let's go with like this really pretty blue mix in some of that red give it that like nice purple color okay and then maybe we want to make it even bigger cuz we are just going for it so we go back to smudge and spatter we make this size pretty big and we just kind of tap in here and you can just see this crazy cool spatter texture that can leave these almost indentations in your paint so while you're smudging you can smudge as we as I showed you with any type of like effects but let's just say you want like a basic hard round opacity and you want to smudge with that so you can come in here and just as you would smudge anything with a finger you can smudge around and you can blend things you can I'm just taking the pencil and just sort of twirling in a circle there to sort of blend this really good but you can totally go crazy with this and your heart's desire and uh smudge and blend things as needed where this is really helpful is really any type of art you're doing but especially like dry media like charcoal um I always say that weird charcoal or pencils or something like that and you want to smudge um here while we're here let me just show you sketching and let's just do coal pencil and let's come in here and smudge and you can sort of see how that looks and then if we wanted to let's do the coal pencil and then let's smudge with an actual graphite like dry media now you're getting a true and that that brush is a little bit large so maybe we pull that back a little bit but now you're getting a true smudging of pencil um so you can really go crazy with shading and values and things like that so you know and that's just a smudge this was just a smudge with um something basic yeah hard round opacity or soft round opacity and that's how it smudged so any brush that you do have on here you can erase with that brush or you can smudge with that brush and that takes your brush options and just doubles triples quadruples their abilities and how you can use them it's really quite Remarkable Moving down you have the transform tool which is uh really useful it automatically defaults to select your entire artwork or at least whatever is on your layer so you can move it up and down by just just dragging any of the corners you can rotate as necessary you can do minor bumps or uh movements over here with this almost secondary touch modifier that gives you sort of arrow keys to move up and down um as you wish and you have natural skew and perspective so if you wanted to draw something on perspective or what have you you can transform those things and then over here you've got a really cool liquefy tool so this is cool um if you first off let me back out of the smudging really quickly so if we wanted to go down here to liquefy you've got warp reconstruct smooth twirl pucker bloat and push left so if you wanted to warp something you can just come in here and make this as funky as you want and obviously your brush settings are down here so you can make the size as big or as small as you'd like and then adjust your um pressure sensitivities and whatnot and let's say you came in and warped something and you wanted to undo it you can just reconstruct by just taking the reconstruct tool and brushing right back over what you just warped and it puts it right back in place there's also a smooth tool um there's a twirl tool which is really cool if you tap around this um it essentially just creates a Whirlpool so the center of your brush becomes like a whirlpool and or like a tornado type of thing and it just continues to keep spinning and if you keep tapping it just continues to twirl and twirl and twirl which is really cool pucker is neat um let's draw like let's draw a smiley face really quickly oops um just so that you can see like how this actually works this is a big program and um anyways we're trying to not like be overwhelmed here because we're trying to get started for beginners so let's kind of keep moving down the line here so underneath your so so far we've gone over pixel brushes live brushes um Vector brushes the erase tool the smudge tool the transform tool and now we are moving to the lasso if you're familiar with a lasso tool you can come in here and rope off items and either down here in the bottom you can click erase to erase that um you can transform so you can lasso something pull it out transform it around kind of go to town with it you can also tap once you have that lassoed tap over here on the layer and say copy selection and let's say that you wanted to move this on a different layer you just tap back and you say paste selection and it automatically moves this over onto its own layer cuz you're copying and pasting um so it's keeping what you had originally there and obviously creating the new layer which is really neat you also have a magic wand tool where you can come in and change the color margin and tapping on certain items that you want to magic wand and then you have a paint selection tool which if you just wanted to paint over something to select it you can do that and then you have your standard rectangle ellipse polygon Etc um one thing that's really cool is let's say that you're doing like really articulate work you're having to really be finite with your selection but then you accidentally you know bumped the screen or something and you lost what you had just spent like 5 minutes tracing you can use this last or load last selection button and it'll automatically load your last selection which is very handy um okay so I'm going to create a new layer really quickly so we can demonstrate um the Paint Bucket so let's say that we had our smiley face again and um the Paint Bucket here is very simple it's similar to procreate how you kind of drag and you drop except with this you actually utilize a tapping so let's say that we want to turn this guy green you literally just hit your paint bucket selection and you pick your color that you would like and then you just tap the area now if you'll notice when I tapped here again the whole face went blue so maybe I didn't want to do that maybe I only wanted to paint the inside well you'll notice this little color margin button over here that pops up so this you can either turn all the way up and make everything within the selection painted or all the way down um so let's show like a good example of that let's let's drag it really far down and you can see if I zoom in here really closely if you look let me get a different uh brush color here just to show you if you look here along the edges you can kind of see that white that's showing up so you're not filling his face all the way so if we really wanted to fill his face we would go back to the paint bucket we'd turn this color margin up and then tap and then if you zoom in you can see obviously it's pixelated because this is a pixel brush but you can then see that we fully filled in the structure so that's your paint bucket tool um we also have shapes over here which I don't use a ton of but cool things like boom and these pretty like leaves and um you know comics and all different kinds of stuff like that you can download a bunch of free shapes from Fresco that might be useful or helpful I'm just not a big shaped girl but I mean if that's you knock yourself out so then we have our text option you have two Fresco provides two different text options they provide a horizontal type and a vertical type and there's two ways that you can put this onto your screen you can either tap and then drag or you can let me zoom in here you can take your pencil and just drag like so and then just you know keep moving things around until you're comfortable with it Fresco also gives you the option here you can move text around you can come over here to your right side of your screen and change the type of font that you have uh make it more bold you know really go crazy with it change your alignment make it all caps lower caps I mean change your spacing like you can do all types of fun stuff here with the text so moving on to the eyedropper you can tap this eye dropper when you do you'll see right here on this little floating screen you have a solid Circle which is just going to be your single color so I can come in here and grab that let's say I let's put a couple colors on the board um obviously I can come in here and just press and hold one finger and if you notice it will load that as my current color which is pretty sweet um but then you also have this multi color swatch here so if you tap that then what you can do is you if you watch over here in the corner underneath the eye dropper as I'm moving this around let me zoom in a little as I'm moving this around you can see that it's changing what I'm picking up and I can zoom in and out so that it'll totally change that so let's say that like this is my selection and then I want to come over here and use that that's what my swatch is going to look like so you can do some really cool and funky um patterns here let's get uh maybe like a blue and then I don't know let's just do a yellow here okay so we've got all these colors chunked up here let's take our smudge tool and just kind of smudge them around a little bit and create this little twister effect and then let's go back to our eye dropper make sure that our multi Swatch is selected zoom out a little bit until we can kind of see all the different colors showing up on our color grid and then now we have a brush that we can color with hey or better yet we change it to Let's say hard round maybe that's a good brush for um multicolor hello so you get to kind of create this really cool like 3D type of text all from like we just we just made this that's freaking incredible um which we'll come back to that so then last but not least you have this picture button over here so a few things that you can do here that that are really cool let's say that you have a photo of maybe a piece of artwork that you really love and you want to utilize that as a reference photo and let's say in my case it's this what I can do with this photograph is pull this off screen and I can obviously make it as big or as small as I want let's say I want it really big and move it off of my artboard once I hit done over here you'll notice that this layer this image layer if I could kind of zoom in you don't see anything on the layer but if I turn over here in this corner my eye off and on it turns that image off and on so as long as you keep this as an image layer you can have this off your artboard as a reference as you're you know making Doodles or whatever it is that you're doing this particular piece of reference material let's say that we wanted this to be on the artboard maybe we were going to this was a sketch and we wanted to like um use maybe we wanted to sketch this wolf or something so you can come in here tap the layer the image layer okay let me take a step back let's say that you wanted this to be within your artwork you just tap on the image and you can say convert to pixel layer so you tap on your layer and say convert to pixel layer now you have the option if you want to erase something within the photo or select something in particular you can do that it's no longer an image that's like sitting on top of your art so let's say that we wanted to trace this you can come over here and turn down your layer opacity over here and if that's not open you just tap your layer and tap the sliders and then this little plus button over here adds a new layer and then you could oops you could come in here with your black and maybe you are using your crispy incor and oh goodness golly that's way too big and maybe you are coming in and you are just tracing that's a terrible tracing job but you get the gist let's say that we wanted to make our little Moon and uh here's our little Moon dude maybe we wanted to match the colors verbatim so we turn back the opacity we grab the color remember just withholding our finger we take our Paint Bucket and uhoh something something's going on why the color margin's at zero but the whole screen is is up so the issue with that is I have not closed my lines here so let's go back and maybe make these a little bit thicker darker what have you and there we have our moon okay so on these layers let's say that we had a bunch of layers and we wanted to maybe we had this little Moon and this text and we wanted to group these these two things together um you can just take one layer drag it on top of the other and turn the layers off and on lower their opacity you can do whatever you want um but once you double tap into that layer group you still have each individual layer so you're not working in a deconstructive way if I was to flatten those onto the same layer which you can do by just saying merge down now they're on the same layer there's really I mean no point of them being necessarily in a layer group because it's just one it's just one layer okay you can delete layers by just hitting delete layer group so moving over on the left side of the screen you have your layer stack right here which hides and kind of is a drawer to tuck away your layers then underneath that that you have your layer properties and this is where you can change your blend mode if you wanted to you know alternate that you can change your low layer opacity underneath that is going to be your Precision so that's your snapping and your grids and any kind of perspective grid that you can do in Fresco and then beneath that is going to be comment so back to the point of having collaborative work if you wanted to make a comment on a particular layer like hey we like the curvature of this o or whatever little ni nitpicky thing um that's where that would go and then underneath that the box with the plus sign is just to create a new layer the box with the arrow is a clipping layer and so what that means is let's say that we had all this crazy stuff underneath our hello and um we only wanted to affect the hello we can come in here with our clipping layer and maybe we wanted to add texture to this particular um painting so let's do maybe like ink let's do ink roller and let's do black so I can come in here as long as this little box is pointing on top of the hello I can come in and totally alter this hello and it even if I'm brushing well you can't see in the video but if I'm brushing over the entire artboard it's not going to affect anything down here besides the hello let's say I turn this clipping mask off you'll notice that it covers the entire artboard but if I clip it just to what's above you can see that it it's not covering the entire artboard it's just covering the art and so I can come in here and alter it as I need I mean that's way too big first off to like do any kind of cool texture but let's say that I wanted to kind of have like a gritty type of texture situation there um I could do that make it make the hello look dirty and then uh another really cool feature down here is this like biohazard looking multi Circle if you click on that you can create different adjustment layers so let's say that we wanted to change maybe the hello here and we just really wanted to check out the the spectrum of what we could do here you just slide your Hues your saturations make it really ugly or make it kind of black and white these are pretty incredible and again you can clip this just to the hello or you can turn that off and make your entire artboard change colors which is just super funky and super crazy and then last but not least you have these little layer actions which you can also achieve if you tap on um certain layers okay so now let's look at motion let's pretend that we just want this little guy on his own little layer because we're going to do something special with him so we're going to select him with the lasso tool we're going to say copy selection and paste selection and now we have him on his own little layer okay so maybe we'll hide everything else and we just have hello and we have our little buddy here so as you'll notice he's he's purple and green but remember that's because we have this Hue that's changed okay so down here in the bottom right you have two features you have first off you have your ruler which you can come in here and use as um a ruler guide that's a terrible brush to test that with you can come in here and use this ruler guide twist it around you know draw up against it you can utilize different shape if you press and hold down on that you'll open up like a circle where you can use this as a drawing guide for a perfect circle and then if you needed to kind of move that or change that um you can do so and to to set your circle you get the size that you want and then you just hit this little box down here to remove the moving Triggers on it and there you go it's pretty cool and then to get rid of it you just tap it again but we want to mess with motion so these three little arrow these three little circles with the arrow is what creates Motion in Fresco and we're going to animate or create motion for our little happy face here so this is where Fresco in my opinion completely blows create totally out of the water so with this guy you can add a bunch of different frames here and you know move him around with frame by frame animation and the way we would do that would be let's just duplicate him and let's transform him down a little bit and then we'll duplicate this layer and transform him and move him down a little bit and so then if we press play you can see that he's moving up and down just like we drew him but let's say that we we don't want to do frame byf frame animation because we have a lot going on and we really just want to animate this particular guy using motion paths this is where Fresco really shines so we have a motion path let's say we want him to fall from the sky it's as easy as that but wait what if we want to have more of them fall from the sky okay that's great but we don't want it to look like a giant centipede so maybe we scatter them and maybe we don't want as many we've decided we only just want a few you can then turn on this grow and shrink and you can make them sort of literally grow and Shrink either getting bigger and then smaller or smaller and then bigger you can make them sway which is really cool and you can draw as many of these as you want so let's say we wanted like multiples well let's say that we didn't want we just wanted him to kind of hover can do like so or have them going across the screen it's pretty remarkable what you can do with motion and fresco and again the options are just absolutely unlimited let's say we wanted to animate the hello with motion path well we just have it saying hello or we want it to just kind of flow in and out like this so let's say at the end of this you're a social media influencer and you want to share your work so if you click on this top button up here that there's your collaboration if you wanted to collaborate you can also come up here and change your artboard settings you can you know flip rotate whatever but let's say you wanted your social media influencer and you want to do a time lapse export of your work so you can come over here and you can drag this duration down to make it super fast or drag it all the way up and do the full length which is 36 seconds but let's say we want 15 seconds we're going to preview that Fresco is going to generate a preview for you and then we want to watch our really incredible time lapse of everything that we did and you can just watch which is which is pretty sweet you also can come in here and do um only export your motion although we got rid of the motion but let's let's bring it back in there if we wanted it and so you could come in here publish an export and do a motion export and generate the frames for your motion and Export like so so there's tons of different settings you can utilize hope this gets you started in Fresco I would love to see what you guys are creating as you play around with the app and you start making some work be sure to tag me if you're making anything on social media I'd love to see your work and just cheer you on because I think this is such an incredible program that I don't see a lot of people utilizing um and if they are I'm at least not seeing it out on the interweb so have a blast hopefully you create something cool all right thanks for watching