Sounds interesting Ruz... Dou you have any example pics at hand? And what about different emboss levels? Dou you create like, 3 layers for light, medium and high bump? Wanna know!
Isn't that a similar technique to Dave King's old tutorial where you have a layer for base colour and a layer on top (set to hard light and filled with grey) for 'shading', adding light and dark tones (or painting with a mid grey brush set to bevel-emboss)? Can you give us an example? I tried to find Mr.King's tutorial…
I created 3 layers for detail levels, although you could lots fo different layers for different effects. So for a broad cheek area I would increase emboss size, for brow furrows, decrease emboss size. i also used actions to avoid having to keep setting it up every time. I will try and post some examples soon. Just a few…