Photoshop Impasto Direct

She rendered the 3D layer. It took a minute. When it finished, Elara gasped.

Now the red petal clung to the high peaks of the stroke. photoshop impasto

Her latest commission was for a book cover: a field of poppies under a stormy sky. It needed to feel tactile, desperate, alive. Her standard soft brushes rendered it smooth, plastic, and dead. She rendered the 3D layer