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Adobe is bringing Creative Cloud to the ARM-powered Surface Pro X, starting with Fresco

Adobe is bringing Creative Cloud to the ARM-powered Surface Pro X, starting with Fresco

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Announced alongside Microsoft’s new ARM-based Surface

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Adobe’s Fresco sketching app will be available on the ARM-powered Microsoft Surface Pro X, the company announced at its Surface hardware event today. Announcing the arrival of Adobe’s app on the ARM-powered Surface Pro X, Adobe’s Scott Belsky said that creativity “must not be constrained to the desktop,” and added that the company is “working hard to bring other key parts of Creative Cloud to the Surface Pro X as soon as possible.”

As part of the announcement we were treated to a demonstration of Adobe Fresco onstage. Fresco is Adobe’s painting and drawing app which was recently released for the iPad. We saw how the Surface Pro X’s new Surface Slim Pen can be used to sketch on the 2-in-1 device, including using oil brushes which blend and smear like real oils. The pen can be flipped around as you would do with a pencil to quickly erase any mistakes, or tilted on its side to achieve a different brush effect.

Unfortunately, Belsky didn’t offer any more details about which Adobe Creative Cloud apps could be coming to the Surface Pro X next, but the company is already hard at work on bringing “real Photoshop” to another ARM-based device, the iPad. This version of the software will include all the features of its traditional Windows and macOS versions. The iPadOS version of the app is yet to be officially released, but Adobe clearly sees ARM-based devices as an important part of its future.

Belsky said that Fresco will be coming to the Surface “very soon,” but didn’t offer an exact release date.