Follow the steps outlined below to save Impasto on Transparency to PhotoShop
- Create a Layer containing Color and Transparency.
- Paint with an Impasto brush on it.
- Duplicate the Layer and name it ‘Impasto’. Move it bellow the original.
- With the New layer selected, go to menu>effects>Tonal Control> Adjust Colors
- Reduce the Saturation slider all the way.
- Increase the Value slider all the way.
- Click ‘OK’
- Create a New Layer underneath the new ‘Impasto’ layer and name it ‘Impasto Grey’.
- Using the Paint Bucket tool, fill the ‘Impasto Grey’ layer with Grey (128,128,128).
- Highlight both the ‘Impasto’ and ‘Impasto grey’ layers and collapse them together. (ctrl+e or CMD+e)
- Set the merge mode on this new layer to ‘Hard light’
- Adjust Opacity to taste.
- Save as .PSD
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