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Adding a Realistic Tattoo the Easy Way with Photoshop – Screencast

on Sep 28th 2009 with 14 comments

“The end goal of a good retoucher is to make their work appear invisible while creating some alternative reality. In this case we’re going to look at one method I use for adding a tattoo to an image while making it look like it’s really a part of the original photo. This method involves placing an Illustrator file (the tattoo source image) as a Smart Object, using the Free Transform/Warp Tool, adding a Gaussian Blur (to adjust the ‘Focus’) and then finishing it all off with a lighting effect created from a Channel Pull. Ready to begin?” Dennis Dunbar

Here is a link to the written version of the tutorial Adding a Realistic Tattoo the Easy Way with Photoshop and the video version is below.

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Gavin is from Douglas, Isle of Man and currently teaches ICT in a secondary school in London. He compiles screencasts for Psdtuts+!  

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Discussion 14 Comments

  1. Henry says:
    September 28, 2009 at 7:45 pm

    Thanks and I appreciate this Gavin! Cheers

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    • Gavin says:
      September 30, 2009 at 12:17 pm
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      Thanks Henry, I like the effect and the tutorial is really simple to follow. I am sure people will be able to take this further with cool designs and concepts.

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  2. Marcus says:
    September 30, 2009 at 2:03 pm

    very good i like you’re tutorials

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  3. Stanley Parrish says:
    October 1, 2009 at 10:39 pm

    Pretty good technique!! I love it

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  4. rashmee says:
    October 9, 2009 at 12:05 pm

    wow love the technique

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  5. fadwa says:
    October 9, 2009 at 12:23 pm

    i loooooooove it ………. thnx for this :)

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  6. jeff says:
    October 9, 2009 at 6:22 pm

    sorry but it dont look real at all…….

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  7. Rania says:
    October 11, 2009 at 7:14 am

    hi.. my name is Rania i work on the photoshop but i want to ask Qu: how i can make fire on the photoshop plz ste by step .

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  8. chel says:
    October 19, 2009 at 1:08 pm

    i want to ask… i already buy CD to install ADOBE CS3… but its so weird coz the register password already expired … so how?

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  9. feras al-furaiji says:
    November 9, 2009 at 11:57 am

    Thanks ^^
    it is so easy
    i say thank you to tomorow ^^

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  10. avn.rocky says:
    November 27, 2009 at 5:34 am

    Thanks for Sharing, Great Tutorial – avn

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  11. yumi says:
    December 22, 2009 at 11:20 pm

    Thank you so much^^

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  12. Creed says:
    January 1, 2010 at 1:44 pm

    Very nice! Thank you!

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