442 Adding Emboss to give your painting depth

- In this very brief movie,…I'll show you how to emboss your pointillism photo…to produce the effect of thick gooey dollops of paint.…I'll go ahead and switch over…to the image I created in the previous movie.…And I'll make sure that this photo layer is selected,…which as you may recall,…is a non-destructive Smart Object.…And then I'll go up to the Filter menu…choose Stylize and choose Emboss.…Now the specific values you apply…are really up to you.…But I came up with an angle of 45 degrees…and a height of three pixels,…and then an amount of 200 percent.…

But if you want to come up with thicker edges,…then you could raise that height value…to something along the lines of six pixels for example.…It's really your call.…Anyway I'm going to take…that guy back down to three.…And then I'll click OK…in order to accept that effect.…And you can see that one of the downsides…of emboss is that it leaves the image looking…extremely gray.…So I'll go ahead and zoom in…on this champagne bottle here.…And notice that while we have colorful edges,…