Yesterday I added a post about painting with an impasto effect while building a new piece of artwork. Today’s challenge was to see if I could take a painting I already completed and ADD the impasto brush strokes on top. This would require me to find a way to build a “transparent brush” that had the 3D effect that would add on top of the original paint layer but not mix any color or shift any of the original pixels in the finished painting.
Reduce the Fill setting on the layer to 0% and magic… your brush is transparent for color but the layer style of the emboss comes through with the brush stroke. So any brush, in the normal mode, with the layer in the {normal blend} mode is fine. The magic is to reduce the fill on the layer to zero.
Terri Butler Photography: https://terributlerphotography.com/adding-transparent-brush-strokes-for-impasto-effect/
