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Digital Brushwork for Photos & Beyond

teacher avatar Leah McLean, Floral Inspired

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      ntroduction to Fresco's Brush Tools

      1:03

    • 2.

      Navigating Fresco's Brush Panel

      2:38

    • 3.

      Mastering Basic Brush Settings

      2:31

    • 4.

      Creating Art with Pixel Brushes

      4:55

    • 5.

      Exploring Live Brushes for Painterly Effects

      7:08

    • 6.

      Adding Bold Lines with Vector Brushes

      3:59

    • 7.

      Customizing Brushes for Unique Effects

      1:59

    • 8.

      Adobe Fresco Class Project

      2:33

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Class Overview: Unlock the full potential of Adobe Fresco to transform your photos into stunning works of digital art! In this class, you’ll discover how to use Fresco's powerful brush tools to create painterly effects directly on your photos. Whether you're a photographer looking to add a creative twist to your images or an artist interested in digital painting, this course will guide you through the essentials and beyond.

What You Will Learn:

  • How to navigate Adobe Fresco's interface with ease.
  • The basics of using Pixel, Vector, and Live Brushes to enhance your photos.
  • Techniques for creating realistic watercolor and oil paint effects.
  • Customizing brush settings to match your unique artistic style.
  • Blending, layering, and managing your work efficiently for professional results.
  • Tips for finalizing and exporting your artwork for print, social media, or your digital portfolio.

Why You Should Take This Class: This class is perfect for anyone looking to expand their creative toolkit with Adobe Fresco. Whether you're a beginner or have some experience with digital art, you'll learn practical skills that you can immediately apply to your own projects. By the end of this class, you’ll be able to confidently use Fresco’s brushes to transform your photos into beautiful, painterly masterpieces.

Who This Class is For: This class is designed for photographers, digital artists, and creatives of all levels who are interested in exploring the intersection of photography and digital painting. No prior experience with Adobe Fresco is required—just a willingness to experiment and create.

Materials/Resources:

  • An iPad or tablet with Adobe Fresco installed.
  • A stylus (like the Apple Pencil) is recommended for precise control.
  • Access to a few of your favorite photos to use as a base for your artwork.
  • I’ll also provide you with a set of custom brushes and textures to help you get started.

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Leah McLean

Floral Inspired

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Hello, I'm Leah.

I am a fine art portrait and still life photography that is obsessed with all things off-camera-flash, floral, and art related. 

I'm originally from the wonderland of the Pacific Northwest, but I have called several other countries and states home. As much as I love the adventure of travel, my heart yearns for the beaches and mountains of my native state and I dream of settling there for good.

I have had the incredible experience to be published in a photography magazine and was selected as one of the "Top 100 Female Photographers to Watch". I have been a working photographer for over 15 years and license my images through an art agent. I lead a Fine-Art-Photography community, The Salted Collective, where we talk Off-Camera-Flash, Still Li... See full profile

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1. ntroduction to Fresco's Brush Tools: Hi, I'm Lea with assaulted image, and welcome to my class. I'm using Adobe Fresco Brushes to transform your artwork into stunning images. I've been working with Fresco for a few years. I love its ability to turn photos into creative and pinkerly mixed media art. In this course, you're going to learn how to use Fresco's powerful brush tools to enhance your floral and sli photography and artwork. Class is going to focus on using brushes, and it is not an in depth look into Adobe Fresco, although I do think any beginner can use this class. By the end of this course, you're going to be able to apply the various brush techniques to create beautiful, unique artwork from your photos and art. If you would like to use art that is created with a traditional medium instead of photography, all the same principles will still apply. However, all of my examples will be using photographs. So in our class project, you'll apply the techniques you have learned on your own images and share your results with the class. So let's go ahead and get started and play with some brushes. 2. Navigating Fresco's Brush Panel: So first, let's go ahead and take a look at the Adobe Fresco interface. When you open Fresco, you'll see your main workspace in the very center. This is where all the magic happens, and that is where we are going to put our photos and work on them. To the left, you have your tool bar with the essential tools, like the brush, eraser, and the selection tools. To the right, you're going to see your layers panel. This is where you'll manage and organize the different elements of your artwork. But for this course, we're going to be focusing mainly on the brush panel. Brush panel is where you're going to find all the brushes we'll be using, including pixel brushes, vector brushes, and my favorite, the live brushes. Each brush type has its unique abilities and settings, and we're going to explore all of that in detail. Before we start exploring brushes, let's go ahead and import a photo or a piece of artwork to work on. So import a photo, you're going to tap on the photo icon on the toolbar on the left. You'll have the option to choose a photo from your device, the Adobe Cloud, or whatever other connected storage you have. Select the photo that you'd like to use. Once imported, your photo is going to appear in the center of your workspace as a new layer. You can resize or reposition it using the transformation handles if needed. Recommend that you lock this layer to keep your original photo intact while you work on it. To do this, tap on the layer in the layers panel, and then tap the lock icon. This ensures that any edits you make will be on the new layers keeping your original safe. So now that our photo is ready and waiting, let's go ahead and jump into our first brush type, which is the pixel brush. Looking over in your left toolbar, you'll see the brushes at the very top. Go ahead and select that top one, which is the pixel brush. So there are so many types of different pixel brushes, and they are great for adding. Texture, shading, and details to your photos. These brushes behave a lot like your traditional brushes and other digital art programs, creating raster based images. So if you use photoshop or procreate, these brushes will work the same as in those programs. Underneath the pixel brush option, you will find the live brush. These brushes are unique to Adope fresco, and they simulate real paint. They allow you to apply watercolor or oil paint effects directly onto your photo, blending and interacting with colors as you paint. These brushes are perfect for creating painterly effects that look natural and organic. So next, we have your vector brushes. To access the vector brushes, tap on the vector brush icon in the brush panel. These brushes create clean, sharp lines that are infinitely scalable without losing quality, making them perfect for adding precise outlines and graphic elements. This selection here is smaller, but it is still very powerful. Now that you're familiar with the different brush types, let's go over how you can change your basic brush settings. 3. Mastering Basic Brush Settings: Now that you're familiar with the different brush types, let's go over how you can change your basic brush settings. You can find the basic brush settings on the left side of the screen. Right here at the top is the pixel brush icon. Below that, you have the live brush, and below that is your vector brush. Presco comes fully loaded with a variety of brushes for you to try out. So you'll find brush. Sketching, inking, painting, you name it, and there's probably a brush in your library for it. I definitely recommend that you go through and just try each of the brushes to see what kind of lines you get. If you would like to give yourself more working room within the frame, you can always grab that gray line at the top of the brush panel, move it somewhere else onto the screen, that is a little bit easier for you to work around. Now, if I select one of those brushes and begin to use it, that panel disappears. Say, I know that I'm going to be using a number of these brushes in my illustration. An option that I have to work faster is by grabbing that gray line at the top of that panel and just moving that brush panel somewhere else. Now I can select any brush, and when I draw with it, my panel stays open. So that way, I can move quickly between brushes. You have two setting options that are in common with all three of the brush types. Those are color and size, and let's go over those first. So let's talk about color. This one's pretty straightforward. Color you want to use for your brush. Inside the color panel, you'll see a color wheel where you can adjust hue, saturation, and brightness. You can also use the color picker to select a color already on your Canvas. For this image that I have already opened in Fresco, if I click right down on here on the colors, you will see a palette that has been pre made by Fresco when I imported that picture. Now, I could have a variety of pictures opened up, and each of them would have their own palette. This is great because you can quickly access colors from your imported images. So to choose a color, go ahead and tap your color wheel icon in the toolbar. If you prefer, you can use the HSB sliders. That's your hue, saturation and value instead of the color wheel. This is especially useful if you're working on web or print projects, and you need precise color control. Next setting that all three of your different brush types have in common is your brush size. Adjusting the brush size is simple, use the size slider located in the brush settings. This controls the width of your strokes, whether you need fine details or broad strokes. Each brush type has its unique strengths and creative possibilities, especially when you combine them with photography. Let's take a closer look at just our pixel brushes. 4. Creating Art with Pixel Brushes: The pixel brushes are raster based. This means that your image is going to be created by combining tiny squares of colors, which we probably all know are called pixels. These can create very detailed and complicated images, but they will begin to pixelate as you increase the image size. They are really great for creating photo realistic textures, which merges perfectly when you are actually using photos. It allows for a very diverse techniques, such as stamp styled strokes, which you can see right here. And it makes pixel brushes ideal for getting texture and color in your art. One of the ways that you can blend your pixel brushes is by utilizing the mixer brushes. You can find these in your library, and they come automatically with the Adobe Fresco app. You can use these brushes to blend and mix multiple colors on the canvas, and it will provide a very natural blending effect, similar to what you would get with a traditional paint medium. If you're using an apple pencil or a pressure sensitive stylus, then you can use that pressure sensitivity to get kind of the perfect blending of colors that you would like. This makes pixel brushes very useful for artists who are aiming to achieve depth and soft transitions in their artwork. Of course, you can change your color and your size settings, but you also have an option for smoothing. Smoothing is available for both pixel and vector brushes, but not for your live brushes. It's a great tool for refining your brush strokes. Increasing the smoothing value helps you create more clean controlled lines by reducing basically the wobble in the strokes. This really helps if you have shaky hands like I do and when you're drawing free hand. Each brush allows you to use a touch shortcut. And that is this little circle right here. So when you hold down this touch shortcut while you're using a pixel brush, it will turn your brush into an eraser that will match the edges of your brush, and it will give it a more cohesive look. If you double tap on that same circle, it will switch between the brush and the eraser. So go ahead and open up your photo in Fresco. Feel free to use any image of any subject that There's two main ways that I tend to work with photos. One is using a non destructive edit where I'm going to create a new layer that's on top of the photo. So I'm not making any changes to the photo itself. But you also have the choice of working right on your photo layer. And that's great for when you want to mix the actual pixels of your photo with the pixels from your brush. First, we're just going to start off with a layer over our photo layer. So go ahead and create a new layer on top of your photo. Go to your Pixel brush library and select a pixel brush of your choice. I'm going to go ahead and start with a soft round brush because I feel like these work really well for smooth blending. You can also experiment with other brushes later, but for now, let's just keep it simple. With the brush selected, let's focus on adding some subtle shading or highlights. Tehan the depth photo. So first, I'm going to lower my brush opacity to around 30 to 40%. That way, the effect is very soft and gradual. After that, choose a color that's slightly darker than the tones in your photo. I'm going to add a bit of shadow to the underside of this flower petal to give it more depths. If you feel like the effect is too intense, you could try lowering your opacity and building up your layers more gradually. Let's go ahead and switch things up. I'm going to select a more textured brush from my pixel library. You could try a charcoal or a dry media brush. Use the eye dropper tool to pick a color from your photo to match the tones. This works well for adding grain to a flower or adding roughness to a smooth background. If you feel like any of the strokes are too harsh, you can always blend them in using the smudge tool. You can find your smudge tool in the tool panel. Now go ahead and just lightly blend the edges of your strokes to create a smoother transition between your photo and the brushwork. Let's go ahead and experiment with blending modes. You can play around with overlay, multiply, or soft light to see how your brushtokes blend with the photo in different ways. You want a more subtle effect, you can always adjust the opacity of the pixel layer. Now, let's go ahead and do all of this over again. But this time, let's work directly on our photo. In order to do that, you'll need to click on your photo layer so that a drop down menu opens up. From that menu, you're going to go down to the very bottom where it will say to convert to pixel layer. Go ahead and select that, and that will allow you to work directly on your photo. I am trying to blend my brush strokes with my photo. I really like to use one of the mixer brushes as it allows those pixels from the photo to mix in with the pixels from my brush. This can lead to a very painterly quality and gives you so many options. Go ahead and experiment to see how those brush strokes affect the photo. It's going to be very dependent on the brush that you have chosen. So for this last example, I'm going to switch to a more textured brush, and I am just going to add some texture into my backgrounds. I like to use this technique when I have photographed flowers on very dark backgrounds as it adds some visual interest to the back. Feel free to experiment with different brushes and blending modes until you get the look you're going to. Now, let's go ahead and talk about the unique strengths and creative possibilities that you have with the live brush. 5. Exploring Live Brushes for Painterly Effects: These brushes simulate real paint, so you can get effects like watercolors, blending and oils mixing all on your screen. Live brushes are perfect if you want to add a painterly effect to your photos. Let's go ahead and try that out. When you select the live brush in fresco, you are going to be given an option between the watercolor brush and the oil brush. Let me go ahead and talk about the watercolor brush first. The watercolor brush is all about creating a fluid transparent effect that mimics the real behavior of watercolor paint. These brushes blend and they spread colors naturally just like actual waters wood on paper, and they are so fun to use. The watercolor brush is great for an artist who wants to replicate a traditional watercolor feel. Digital painters who want to add a soft organic feel to their work can use these brushes to blend with their photography for creating soft backgrounds or subtle gradients over your photos. I like to just do a gentle wash of color to add a dreamy atmosphere. They're also great for adding abstract details like soft splashes or blooms of color. Go ahead and experiment with each of the options that you have within the watercolor brush as each one of them excels for a different effect. Instead of smoothing, you'll find a water flow option. Water flow controls how much water is mixed with the paint. This influences how they blend on the canvas. Lower flow settings create lighter, more translucent strokes, while higher flow settings result in bolder, more opaque lines. If you want more control over how much the paint bleeds, you can adjust the flow settings, and when you're happy with your blend, you can dry the layer, which means no further blending happens. To find the dry layer option, look at the right side of your screen at the very bottom of the tool panel. See a little icon. This is lock transparency. Go ahead and click on that to freeze any additional blending. This is great when you want to lock in in an effect. We're going to try to create a soft flowing effect. I've got my flower photo open, and I'm going to add a new live brush layer on top of that image. Remember that the water flow controls how much your color is going to spread. Let's go ahead and start with a water flow of 50% for a soft blended effect, and a paint load to 30% for a subtle touch of color. The cool things about the live brush is how they mix. When you overlap brush strokes, the colors blend just like real paint. I'm going to use a slightly different shade to paint over this area of the photo and to blend it into the existing stroke. You can use this for creating a dreamy, abstract background behind your subject, or you can go right over your subject for a gradual change of color. If you want to tone down the effect, you can play with the opacity of the brush or layer. Now, let's go ahead and use our watercolor brush to paint directly on our photo layer. If your photo layer has not been converted to a pixel layer, that's the first thing you'll need to do. Go ahead. Click on that photo layer. Go down to convert to pixel layer and select that. Now you'll be able to work directly on your photo. So now when you use the brush strokes, you are going to be combining whatever color you have selected with the colors of your photo. And now you can watch how it blends into the edges of this petal as I apply the brush. Generally, when I am using my watercolor brushes on a photo layer, I am using it with clear water. I'm going to double click on my shortcuts, and you'll see it has turned blue, and now I'm painting with clear waters. So the colors on my photo are going to be the colors that are mixing together. Go ahead and try out different blending modes like overlay or multiply to see how the paint interacts with the photo. This can give you all sorts of different looks. Now, let's go ahead and talk about the oil brush. The oil brush is probably one of my favorite are designed to mimic the thick textured fuel of oil paints. These brushes allow for rich layered strokes that can be built up to create depth and dimension. Again, go ahead and experiment with all of the different brushes that are in the oil brush library, and you'll see that each of them has their own unique strength and play around with them so you can discover what is going to work best for you and your art. You can use brushes to add texture to your photographs or even just to paint in an element like petals or leaves or even an insect. You can give your image a very tactile almost three d quality with these brushes. So right now, I have a layer opened up on top of my photo layer, and I am just going to paint using a oil paint glaze. It's going to go right over here with this yellow. So you can see it gives this oil paint look and even has a texture to it. I am going to go ahead and increase my brush size, and I'm going to increase the flow. If I come down low, it will make a very subtle effect. You will barely see any color. But if I come up to 100%, it's going to be much more intense. I like to keep my flow lower because I would rather build up my layers gradually than all at once. Let's go ahead and talk about the paint mix option, which is unique to your oil live brush. The paint mix option controls how much your colors blend together on the canvas. This works in three main ways. First is blending colors on a separate layer. When you paint on a separate layer, the colors on that layer blend together. For example, if I start with yellow, it will gradually mix with the nearby pink as I paint. If I lift the brush off the screen, it reloads that paint brush, and I will start fresh with the original yellow again. If I want to adjust the paint mix setting here, it's going to change how much the colors blend together. Let's take it to a very high and that's going to give it a much smoother transition between the colors. If I take it to a low paint mix setting, it's going to give me much more distinct edges. The way I tend to use it the most is by blending it on a photo layer. So you have two options in using the paint mix on your photo layer. First is just with color. If I have color on a brush, then I will be mixing that color into the photos pixels. I didn't want to use any color, and I just wanted to mix the existing pixels together. Then I can use a dry brush. Just like the watercolor brush, you can choose to use your oil brush as a clear paint. You can get that dry brush option by selecting that small circle so that it has that blue around it. This option is going to mix only the colors already in the photo, so it won't add any new colors. To use this, you have to convert your photo layer to a pixel layer first. When using the dry brush, if I want more pink, I'll need to pick up paint from a pink. I want to add the white, then I would need to go ahead and drag my brush to that white area. The color you first touch is what is going to spread across the canvas. So let's talk quickly about the smudge brush and how you can use it with your oil brush. Using the smudge brush is a great way to seamlessly blend the edges of your paint with your photo. You can create a smoother transition between the two. Try gently dragging the smudge brush along the boundary where the paint meets the photo. Going to soften those harsh lines and blur the colors together, which will give a much more natural and cohesive look. You can adjust the strength of the smudge brush, which will help you to control how much blending will occur. Lower the settings, to give a subtle blend and give it higher settings, to create a more pronounced painterly effect. This technique is going to help those painted elements feel more cohesive with your original photo. So I really love the oil brush. It is definitely one of my favorite brush types and I love the painterly quality it creates. I encourage you to experiment with all the live brush options, both watercolor and oil, to explore the different looks that you can achieve. Now let's move on to the vector brush and see how we can incorporate it into our photography. 6. Adding Bold Lines with Vector Brushes : Next, we have your vector brushes. These brushes create sharp lines that are infinitely scalable without losing quality. Vector brushes are ideal for creating clean shapes or even graphic style art on top of your photos. To access those brushes, go ahead and tap on the vector brush icon that is in your brush panel. The Vector brush offers a straightforward set of options with the color and the size and the smoothing. Now, the great thing about vector brushes is that you will never get pixelation because they are not raster based. So you can just keep making it to larger and larger and larger, you will never see a pixel. Now, there is a drawback to this, and that is that you cannot blend colors with a vector brush. If you really want to get detailed complex colors, you will be better off using the live or pixel brushes. Now, I admit that I don't use vector brushes as much when I am combining my photos with a digital medium. But I do like to use them to trace over elements within my photo to create very bold and clean outlines. I think this works especially well with subjects like flowers and leaves because there are so many tiny little lines and details. You can adjust the brush size to control the thickness of your outlines, and you can use different colors to add contrast or to highlight specific parts of really love to outline parts of my image to create a graphic and more illustrative look. First, go ahead and select the vector brush tool from the toolbar. When you are using the vector brush, it will automatically create a vector layer for you. You do not have the option to mix your vector brush with a pixel layer. This means it will always stay on its own vector layer, and you will not be able to merge it with a photo or brush strokes from your pixel or your live brushes. Let's begin by outlining a section of this flower. Notice how the lines are perfectly smooth and sharp as I draw around the petals. This is perfect for adding stylized details or creating illustrations on top of photos. If I zoom in, you can see just how sharp those lines are. If you want smoother lines, Fresco has a smoothing option. You can adjust the setting to automatically refine any shakiness or uneven strokes in your drawing. Let me turn up the smoothing to about 50% and see what the line looks like. Now I'm going to go ahead and take it to a 100%. And now down to 0%. You can see a clear difference between those three marks. With a higher smoothing percentage, you'll notice how much cleaner and fluid my lines are. This is perfect for making sleek curves of those petals. Now let's take it a little bit further and use some bold graphic shapes to compliment the photo. I'm going to use the vector fill option to drop solid colors into the background. I'll also adjust the brush size to create different line weights. See how the thinner lines add detail while the thicker ones create a stronger focal point. You can really get creative with the shapes and line variations. Could also use the vector brushes to draw patterns, designs, or shapes directly onto your photo. One of the tools that comes with the vector brush is the vector trimming shortcut. This allows you to quickly clean up or adjust your artwork without switching to a separate tool. To use it, you'll want to double tap your shortcut button. Tap it one more time so that you have the blue circle around the outside edges. Once you do that, it will switch to the vector trimming From there, you can swipe across any unwanted lines or overlapping shapes to erase them neatly. Now, when you do this, the lines will need to overlap or intersect with each other. The trimming function only removes the parts of the line that cross. Make sure your paths intersect where you want them trimmed. If the line you're trimming has very few anchor points or it's made up of just one long continuous stroke, then the tool may erase a larger section than you want. To avoid this, try adding more anchor points by picking your pen up while you're using it and creating smaller segments. If you want to trim multiple lines at once, just go over all of them in one stroke like you see here. Is our look into vector, pixel, and live brushes, and how you can use them to transform your photography. Each brush type serves a different purpose, whether you want graphic, painterly, or highly detailed effects, you can mix and match to suit your vision. 7. Customizing Brushes for Unique Effects: So now that we've used all the different types of brushes, let's take a look at how we can customize them to our own nee. You really like a look of one of the brushes that you've made some changes to. You could have been working with a pixel brush and could have adjusted the smoothing or the flow, and you know that you would like to reuse that specific brush. You have the ability to save that brush. Just go down to the bottom of your brush panel and click the icon with the paint brush. We'll open up another panel called Brush Settings. At this point, you could go ahead and save this brush as is by pressing the three dots across from the brush name. Save as New Brush. Choose if you want to save the color or not, and then pick the destination from where you want to save it. If you want to create a new destination library for that specific brush, go ahead and press that top option, new library with the plus sign. You can enter the name for the new library and press Save. Now it has saved that brush to my library. We have this panel open, you could actually make even more custom changes to that brush. If you're working on a pixel brush, then you can change your spacing and your angle. As you slide those sliders, you will see the changes it would make to your brush stroke and the sample stroke at the top of that panel. If you open up the shape dynamics, we'll see even more changes that you can make, including jitter and diameter and stylus pressure. You could go through an experiment and get the brush how you want. I recommend that you go ahead and open up that brush panel in all your different types of brushes, pixel, and the vector and the live to see just how drastically you can change the look of your brushes. Would like to do a bonus project. I do have a mini challenge for you where you can create your own custom brush. Use it in a quick illustration or even just a single brush stroke across your screen. Save that image and drop it into the project area and tell us what brush it originally was and what changes you made. Even if you choose not to do that challenge, I recommend that you still go and experiment to see what kind of brushes you can create. So now is time to put all of this into practice to create our class project. 8. Adobe Fresco Class Project : Congratulations. You have made it to the final lesson of our Adobe Fresco course on Brushes. I hope you've enjoyed learning how to use these brushes for your photographs and art. Now it is time to finally put everything you have learned into practice on your final project. I'd love for you to go ahead and take one of your own photos or pieces of art, and it could be any subject that you would like. And transform it using at least two of the different brush types, so you could pick a pixel brush and a vector brush or a live brush and a vector, whatever you choose. Go ahead and get creative with at least two different brush types. Here's a breakdown of what you'll need to do. If you're going to use a pixel brush, I recommend that you start with that before the live or the vector brush. Texture or painterly effects, enhance the photo. Play with your brush and try blending not just the brush marks, but the brush marks with your actual photo pixels. From there, you can move onto the live brushes or the vector brushes. Feel free to mix and match the different brush types on the same piece. You can blend pixel textures with clean vector shapes or let the live brushes flow seamlessly into the photos existing textures. You're using the live brushes, you could try adding realistic paint strokes or watercolors. Try blending them into your photo to create a very vibrant fluid background. If you're going to use the vector brushes, I recommend you use those to create bold outlines, graphic shapes or Cris details. Try blending brushes in unexpected ways, using masking tools or even just adjusting the opacity to get the look you want. Ahead and try whatever you would like. You're not getting graded on these. It's okay. If you make bad art, I make it all the time, and it's a wonderful part of the creative process. Remember, this is your chance to experiment and have fun. The magic happens when you play with the different tools and you push the limits of what they can do. Once you've completed your project, I would love to see it, so please be sure to share it in the Skill Share project gallery. It's a great way to showcase your own progress and and you'll also get to see how other students approach their own project. Let's inspire each other. Whether you're a photographer, illustrator, or just someone who loves experimenting with art. You now have some powerful tools to bring your creative visions to life. I just want to take a moment to thank you for taking this class, and I hope you walk away feeling more confident in using Adobe Fresco in your own creative process. I'm always here to help so feel free to leave comments or questions. And of course, if you've enjoyed the class, I would really appreciate it if you could leave a review. It will help other people in the Skillshare community to find this video. Thank you again, and I cannot wait to see what you create. Until next time, keep creating and stay inspired.