
Less successful is the transition of Adobe Fresco from iPad to the Surface. Matt was impressed with the natural texture of Fresco paints on the Wacom, finding his painting smooth with no lag to mention.Īs a major Photoshop user on PC and Mac, he adapted to Fresco easily, and felt his option was to perhaps start a piece on Fresco via its iPad version before completing it via desktop Photoshop on his Wacom Intuous at home (should Fresco ever come to that device.)įind more of Matt's Fresco work on the Wacom MobileStudio Pro below. While we were at the conference we grabbed some hands-on time with the app on both Wacom and Surface devices, getting thoughts from designer and illustrator Matt Bonham as he made the below illustration on a Wacom MSP. In this update we share what artists thought while reviewing the Windows version at Adobe MAX 2019.Īt Adobe's creative MAX conference Fresco made its Windows debut across ten devices, as listed below in update to this feature:Īt MAX it was also confirmed to us that there won't be a free version of Fresco for Windows as there is for iOS, but there is a six month trial version instead. But then Adobe pitched in with the big news – its highly feted new digital painting iPad app Fresco was making its debut on the Windows platform on the Surface. Released at in an event brimming with hot new reveals – mainly targeting consumers – the Surface Pro 7 added some much-needed tweaks to its familiar formula and little else.

Microsoft has been positioning its Surface Pro tablet PC as a drawing and painting tool for designers and artists since the Surface Pro 3, but at first glance the latest version – the Surface Pro 7, announced yesterday – is a little more than “another year, another iterative Surface Pro update.”

The first Windows version of Adobe's new digital painting app is out on Microsoft Surface devices - and we can now share what artists thought while getting hands-on with the app on the Surface and Wacom (read here or scroll below.)
