Elara had always been jealous of oil painters. She worked in pixels, in the flat, infinite grid of a digital canvas. She could mimic the color of a thick swipe of cadmium red, but never its shadow —the tiny cliff of paint that catches the light, the physical thereness of a real stroke.
The magic happened.
But it was just a gray, metallic-looking object. To make it impasto , she needed to wrap her color around the texture. photoshop impasto