IMPASTO PAINT EFFECTS ON FILESILO
Start by choosing the photo that your painting will be
based on. Make sure the photo is not too detailed,
impasto paintings focus less on detail and more on the
colour and feeling of an image. Use the Surface Blur
filter to further remove details from the photo. Open
the impasto textures and isolate them from their solid
white background. Use a Hue/Saturation adjustment
to fully desaturate the texture images. Layer the
textures to build up an impasto base that spans the
entire painting. Move the original photo layer to the top
of the layer stack and change the blending mode to
Overlay to allow the paint textures to show through.DIGITAL IMPASTO PAINTING
USE YOUR TEXTURES TO CREATE A DIGITAL IMPASTO PAINTING
Add in another layer with a Bevel & Emboss layer style
and use the Impasto brushes to add in specific brush
strokes along the image contours where it would
make sense to have a visible paint stroke. Check out
the video tutorial in this issue for a more detailed
demonstration of this whole process.