Procreate vs Adobe Fresco

[Monet]

Just a survey. For those who are using these apps, which do you prefer? And why? Any pros and cons? 

[Alissanos · Accepted solution]

Honestly I am torn between the two, procreate is more user friendly and easier to get the hang of but with fresco I can draw and paint with vector brushes and the live paint brushes are so nice to work with.

There are way more tutorials, add ons and brushes for procreate but fresco feels more like painting if that's what you like.

Also procreate is limited on canvas size and layers depending on the ipad you have, mine is a budget one so to create a 4000 Px square canvas I'm limited to about 20 layers at 300 dpi.

Fresco is great but the interface is not very intuitive 

Not much help I'm afraid, I like both for different projects, they are both very good at what they do but there are some cons to both too. It's too hard to choose between them so I use both!

[Monet]

Do you use your ipad for zazzle? As in all the editing and store settings?

Thank you for the insights! Appreciate it! 

[Alissanos]

At the moment, I do and funnily enough I have only just switched from full time using my pc to using an ipad. So I am just learning what I can and can’t do with the ipad compared to my pc. I generally make my designs in other programs, like procreate or illustrator and then upload the image to zazzle, so I don’t have to do a ton of editing in the zazzle design tool. So I can’t really say as I don’t make a lot of designs with text.

So far, for most of what I do, the ipad has been enough, I haven’t yet come across something that I need to do that I can’t if that makes sense although I’m sure things will come up that I will want to use my pc for, they just haven’t yet. Other more experienced ipad users here would probably have a better idea.

I can publish my designs easily, although I did get a keyboard cover because I just prefer to type on an actual keyboard. As for procreate, you can design transparent pngs and make seamless patterns and even basic mockups, for me that eliminates using photoshop, and I hate photoshop ( could never get the hang of it but I love illustrator) so its saving me money each month.

I got a cheap ipad ( the cheapest one) and an Apple Pencil and so far I’m very happy with it and how it’s working for zazzle, hope this helps!