Adding a Realistic Tattoo the Easy Way with Photoshop – Screencast

Sep 28th in Screencasts by Gavin Steele

"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

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Author: Gavin Steele

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

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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    Henry September 28th

    Thanks and I appreciate this Gavin! Cheers

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      Gavin September 30th

      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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    Marcus September 30th

    very good i like you’re tutorials

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    Stanley Parrish October 1st

    Pretty good technique!! I love it

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    rashmee October 9th

    wow love the technique

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    fadwa October 9th

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

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    jeff October 9th

    sorry but it dont look real at all…….

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    Rania October 11th

    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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      Ramesh November 5th

      log on to youtube.com and search for “fire in photoshop” you will find there… i’ve tried and satisfied..

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    chel October 19th

    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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    feras al-furaiji November 9th

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

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