Adding a Tattoo…

Today I am going to show you how to add a tattoo to a photo. So let us begin by finding an image that we want to apply the tattoo effect to. I found this image from skins.be, but you can use any other image that you may have. So open Photoshop and drag your image on to a blank canvas. Next look for the tattoo that you want to apply to the image I found this tattoo image simply by using Google’s image search. Once you have the tattoo image pasted on the canvas on a separate layer we are ready to begin.

Original State

  1. With the tattoo layer selected go to edit, transform, warp, and proportion the tattoo to the angles of the area where you are applying the tattoo.
  2. Then with the tattoo layer still selected change the layer property to multiply, and finally change the opacity to about 65% or so depending on your images.
  3. View the images below to see if you had a similar turn out.

Transform Warp

Layer Style

Final Result

It doesn’t get any easier than that.