Tattoo Photo Effect

Today I want to show you other Photoshop technique, it is tattoo effect.
I hope you found this tutorial on how to design and add tattoos to your photos in Photoshop useful.

1. Open your photo in Photoshop (Ctrl+O or File->Open…)

2. Open your tattoo image as well. I will show example with different tattoo, it will let you understand better.

3. Now Select all (Ctrl+A) on your tattoo image and Copy (Ctrl+C):

Tattoo

4. Now go to your photo workspace and paste it there (Ctrl+V):

5. Select the tattoo layer by left-clicking on it:

Select Layer

Now we need to remove all the white from the tattoo image.

6. Select the Magic Wand tool by pressing W on your keyboard or select from Tools menu:

Magic Wand

7. Just below the Main menu you will see options for the Magic Wand Tool. Set as below:

8. Now left-click on the white area on your tattoo image:

9. Press Delete. Here’s the result:

10. Now deselect (Ctrl+D) and with the Move Tool (M) place the tattoo where you want it.

If the tattoo is too large, you’ll need to resize it.

11. Select the tattoo layer. Press Ctrl+T. Now you’re in Free Transform mode. Resize and rotate it:

12. While still in Free Transform mode, right-click on the tattoo and select Warp:

13. Stretch it and distort it just enough to make it look like it’s really on your skin:

14. Apply changes by pressing Enter. You should come up with this:

15. Now in the Layers window set properties of your tattoo layer as below:

Here’s the result:

You can add some text as well using almost the same technique. The only different step will be rasterizing your text layer before Free Transforming it.

Source

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-make-a-tattoo-in-photoshop-add-it-to-pictures/