Photoshop Tutorial: Adding Tattoo to a Photograph
This tutorial will show you how you can insert a tattoo design to a photograph with only couple of simple steps in photoshop. So, here’s my before and after photo:
Step 1) Let’s working on the tattoo image first. Select your magic wand tool from your tool pallete, then select the white background on your tattoo design. Make sure you have selected every white on the image. After that, go to select>inverse (shift+ctrl+i)
Step 2) Drag your tattoo design to your portrait. Or you can copy it (ctrl+c) then paste it (ctrl+v) in your portrait.
Step 3) Now, you need to resize your tattoo by pressing ctrl+t so that it will fit nicely on the lady’s back.
Step 4) Done with resizing, your next step is to reshape the tatto like the body part using the warp feature (right click while you’re still in free transform mode)
Step 5) Now change the layer mode of the tatto design layer to multiply and play around with the opacity for the desired look. Mine is 54%
You’re done!
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this was real cool good looken out
you were using photoshop cs2 for this right? because my photoshop cs doesnt have warp option…
yup, that’s rite…
wow! Thanks for publishing this. So simple but yet so nicely done! Kudos.
mannnnnnnn
really thx
very good
instead of using the warp tool for those that don’t have acces to it, you can use a displace map
render the body, desaturate it, save it [preferably displace as a name]
open again the image, load your “tattoo” on the image . then go to “filters> distort>displace maps, look for your displace you just rendered and apply it to the tatto and gives you a really better looks
Thanks Neviral..
I don’t have that option : “WARP”!!! What can I do? I have a photo shop 7.0!!!
thanks eny way….
CheGandra.. read the Neviral’s comment above..
hey thanx man, great tutorial =)
I find a little video example.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/443994/tattooing_jolie/
Hi, I’ve tried this but it just doesnt looks how i want to =s could you help me out please?… im trying to do it but the zone where i want to put the tattoo is kinda inclined and the tattoo looks plane…
Hello there.. Thanks alot for this turtorial! Its was great!..
wow…this photoshop tutorial is so so great…it is so easy to follow…astigg
Hey, that tattoo looks okay; the problem is that it doesn’t look real: look at the fading. I have had a tattoo for 8 years and it has not aged like you have shown. This is clearly a fake…
can u use 7.0 for this?
if your tattoo looks like it’s sticked on, you can set the opacity of the layer tattoo, this did the trick for me.
that girl is sexy man, anyway thx 4 the tutorial, its awesome