| Tattoo tutorial. Have you ever had the overwhelming urge to put a tattoo on someone? Well this is your lucky day. Here is how it's done (using Photoshop). I used the following images for example purposes.
1) Open the photo of a person you want to put the tattoo on.
2) Open the image of the tattoo you want to place on the person. (go to google then enter "tattoo + flash" to find some tattoos). (Make sure it has a white background and is well defined).
3)Using the move tool......drag the tattoo onto the image of the person. This forms a layer which contains the tattoo and places it directly over the person about to be tattooed.
4) Lower the opacity of the tattoo layer to about 30% so you can clearly see the image of the person under it.
5) Edit > Free transform.
6) On the top toolbar Click the "chain" icon between the W and the H.
7) Click and hold any corner of the free transformed box and pull it inward which makes the tattoo smaller in size and then place it right where you want it and hit the enter key when you are happy with it's position.
8) Increase the opacity back to 100%.
9) In the layers palette change the blending mode to "Multiply".
10) You're done.
For extra tweaking purposes......I like to then lower the opacity to 75% and add a Gaussian blur of .3 pixels and then follow with another Gaussian blur of .2 pixels.......but that's just me.
There is another method which features displacements maps....but....that's for another day.
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| Awesome tutorial!
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 JrmntrPremium
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Vancouver, BC | reply to Edit This
Wow, I never knew it would be so simple! thanks! |
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 pogPremium
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Nice write up!
Just wanted to reinforce the importance of the white background...
For those that haven't thought about, in "multiplication", pure white translates to 1...and 1x whatever = whatever... meaning those pixels do not affect the layer underneath. This makes for really nice, clean blending. |
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 aloneworld'nother day, 'nother goofPremium
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HHV, NY | reply to Edit This
There is a way to wrap it around the arm that makes it not as flat as this (she's got quite a skinny shoulder.
A bit of image wrap (Edit/Transform/Wrap) should do the trick.
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 34140721Small Block Chevys Never Die..Premium
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Awesome tutorial...(and knock out gal by the way)....
Many thanks... |
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Somewhere | said by 34140721:(and knock out gal by the way).... Yeah, that'd be Charlize!  |
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Staten Island, NY | reply to 34140721
said by 34140721:Awesome tutorial...(and knock out gal by the way).... Many thanks... ditto, but I"d really like to feed her a couple of donuts before a stiff wind comes along and blows her over. |
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 jaykaykay4 Ever YoungPremium,MVM
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Wow! I think that I learned a lot in this thread. |
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 TexasGuy49 States And TexasPremium
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EditThis, you got to control color of the tatoo, yours is way to dark for it to be looking like real ink under the skin. Way too dark. |
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| said by TexasGuy:EditThis, you got to control color of the tattoo, yours is way to dark for it to be looking like real ink under the skin. Way too dark. It's just my preference to have it look that way. If you want you can always lower the opacity a bit more. Plus....the source image has to be a good quality.
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TexasGuy49 States And TexasPremium
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1 edit | Here is how it should be. |
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| That's a big friggin tattoo. |
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TexasGuy49 States And TexasPremium
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Houston, TX | reply to Edit This
Here is the transparent skull so you could do more than just MULTIPLY the layer onto another. |
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| Awesome work TexasGuy  . Can you give a brief how to? It looks like you used Edit > Transform > Warp to bend it around her shoulder. Do you not use Multiply in Layers as a a blending mode?
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TexasGuy49 States And TexasPremium
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1 edit | With Multiply you can't do much because the effect depends on another layer and thus, you can't manupulate the tattoo layer independently.
I quickly removed all white from the skull to make it black/transparent, see the file above.
Then I pasted it directly onto the girl and rotated so the skull axis would be the same with the axis of the hand. Then I used Liquefy, it is much easier to use Liquefy than the separate effects for bending. I used a big brush and touched the tattoo with the side of the brush, not center. Thus, I shaped the tattoo as if it was curving around. More curve I need, smaller the brush (like where the tattoo seems to go off the hand). Then I erased the part that was sticking out.
The rest was selecting the tattoo by its dark color and making a new layer on top, filling directly the selected area with a blue color. Then some fading and I combined the layers to do hue. You can't do hue on B&W, thus, I needed to give it some color. I hued it to the blue tint I thought would represent an ink under the skin. Some curves...
Basically, you do it till it seem to look right.
EDIT: Forgot, I also did some lighting effect on the skin where the tattoo is, thus, where the light strikes, it gives the skin and the tattoo lighter shade. Thus, it created a better 3D illusion. If your tattoo color is uniform, it would look flat. If it has shades which change along with the skin's shade, it looks as if it is really on the skin.
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San Luis Obispo, CA | said by TexasGuy:. . .Then I used Liquefy, it is much easier to use Liquefy than the separate effects for bending. I used a big brush and touched the tattoo with the side of the brush, not center. Thus, I shaped the tattoo as if it was curving around. More curve I need, smaller the brush (like where the tattoo seems to go off the hand). Then I erased the part that was sticking out. . . . I've never thought of using Liquefy like this but now that you point it out, with a little tweaking, it could be used quite effectively to shape the selection to body contours, if the area was muscular for instance.
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Superb method TexasGuy . I'm going to give it a try now and post back as soon as I am done. Thank you very much for the instructions.
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