fake tattoo in PS how?
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- georgietexan
I have a picture if an upclose shot of my arm. I also have created an illustrator file with an image. How can I add the illustrator file to the picture and make it look like a real tattoo? I have been at it for a few hours now and nothing it looking right.
yes I'm a want-to-be biker bad ass...really..
anybody tried this effect yet?
- dstlb0
Tattoo a pig with your design, photograph it and then comp the pig and arm together in Photoshop, easy.
- leaves0
copy the graphic directly from illustrator and paste in into your PS file.
then size it up, and play around with layer options to get a slightly more realistic look.
add some texture to it if it still doesnt look real. changing layer opacity might help some too.
in the end, the only answer is "fuck with it for a while".
- leaves0
yea. or you could just tattoo a pig.
- instantok0
a kid in my major tatooed pig skin for his thesis last year...he tried to get human skin from a local medical school...it was sort of ethically complex so he went with the pig
- georgietexan0
yeah texture is the key thing I'm missing.
- b_magallanes0
Try "Soft Light" or "Overlay" blending modes in photoshop...the texture should come through.
- rikcat0
First i would make the colors very basic and over saturated. Paste it in its own layer and then ffool with the layer settings "Multiply" might work...and loweer the opacity to bring through the texture of the skin
- dessalles0
another suggestion
bring the line art/tatoo into PS and scale/skew/bend it so that is fits on the arm properly.
select the layer of your arm and paste it as an alpha channel.
hide all the other channels except the alpha you just made and load the channel as a selection (the bottom left button in the channels tab)
go back to the layers and make sure that your tatoo layer is selected. then go to filter>render>lighting effects, and recteate the lighting scenario that your appears on your arm.
after that just play around with the blending options and opacity until it looks right.
*there's a few intermediary steps i didn't include - but you should be able to figure it out
hope this works
cheers
- dessalles0
one other thing
before you load your arm in as alpha channel you're going to half to play around with the contrast/levels in order to really bring out the texture of your arm
in a sense you're using your arm as a bump map (not sure if 'bump map' is the right term though)
but you get it
- xrusos0
i'd love to see a sample
- mayo0
didn't one of the Icy Hot Stuntaz do a "really good" job?
- Bio0
i've been wanting a tattoo for ages but can never come up with one i like.
ive been thru the process of superimposing my designs on my various body parts so often that i could almost write a photoshop action for it. hehehe.
i'll have to agree with the info these guys have given you already though.
it isn't hard. just keep messin' widdit.
maybe i need some more piercings first anyway. . . yeaaaaaaaah.
- Bio0
feel like posting a sample?
i'd like to see.
- DragKng0
I would also recommend using the "healing brush" on the tattoo if you have a new version of photoshop, it will not change the colour, just borrow the texture of your arm.
- blackspade0
when you bring the illustrator graphic into PS, make the layer its on a 'Multiply' layer
this will make it look more realistic on the skin, play with the opacity and skew it etc.
- letgo™0
You can also use displacement maps to good effect.
Create a displacement map of your arm, then apply that to the tattoo layer and it will add contour to the layer, shaping it to the arm.