If you want to paint on your iPad or iPhone, Adobe Fresco offers an incredibly realistic experience. It’s also—like Adobe’s excellent Lightroom for iPad—very easy to use.

Fresco recently released for the iPhone and Lifewire spoke with Adobe's Bryan O'Neil Hughes and Kyle Webster via video chat to learn more about the app and painting on a glass screen.

“We believe the iPad is the best place to draw and paint,” said O’Neil Hughes, “but it’s not the device you have with you every minute of the day. That’s the phone.”

“Painting” on a screen is a strange experience for anyone used to real oil, acrylic, or watercolor. For starters, there’s no texture or feedback. The canvas doesn’t give, and scrubbing oil paint with a blunt, worn-out hog-hair brush feels like running watercolor off a smooth sable. More importantly, a painting on canvas or paper reflects light, while a painting on an iPad emits light.