No matter which you choose, an the iPad Air or an iPad Pro, both will be able to take full advantage of Fresco. The average person might not notice, but a pro likely will. Essentially, the iPad Air's 60Hz display means there will be more lag when drawing. That high refresh rate enables the iPad Pro to be more responsive and have smoother motion, which has a big impact when scrolling as well as drawing with the Apple Pencil. The iPad Pro has a Face ID and a superior rear camera system, but the biggest thing that will impact artists is the display, a 120Hz refresh rate panel (which Apple calls its 'ProMotion' technology), while the iPad Air only has a display with a 60Hz refresh rate, same as all the new iPhones. While the new iPad Air does bring some more advanced features to more people at a lower price, there are still places where the iPad Pro is king. But the result, which even includes actual height, in the form of layers of emulated paint, is something I have to say I'm fairly proud of.Ībove: This is a photo of sunset that I turned into a oil painting with Fresco. It wasn't simple I had to really work hard to get the brush strokes correct, especially in the more detailed sections.

One of the smaller projects that I had the most success (and the most fun) with was turning a photo that I'd taken into a painting by using Fresco's live brushes to play with the colors of a photo I'd already taken. Now, I'm not going to try to convince you that using the new iPad Air turned me into some kind of real artist, and in my two weeks of testing I didn't come close to unlocking the full potential of Adobe Fresco - but I can see the how much potential there'd be if I really applied myself. It combines a nearly infinite selection of emulated pencils and pens with all the various paint brushes from Photoshop plus a new class of brushes called live brushes, which emulate oil paint or real watercolor you can see the paints bleed in real time, just like real watercolors on paper.

The new iPad Air brings more advanced features to more people at a lower priceĪdobe Fresco is one of the apps taking full advantage of this.

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