Category: Photo Effects
Grade Of Difficult: Advanced
Quick Realistic Tattoo Montage Tutorial
What's Up Photoshop People! surfing on the web we have seen a LOT of Tattoo Montage tutorials, but most of them are TOO large, TOO difficult or just got an unrealistic result, so we are going to create the shortest, quickest and more realistic Tattoo Montage, let's begin.
First of all we need the Tattoo design, we are giving one brush to download for free HERE, and a very useful link to Devianart.com, so you can pick other if you want.
(If you don't now how to load the brush follow this steps)
Loading Brush:
Now that you have download the Brush and placed it in your chosen directory just select your Brush Tool.

Then click on the down arrow on the Brush Options bar...

Now click the little right arrow and select the Load Brushes Option, and now just browse for your Brush on your Hard Drive.

And.Voila, with your new brush installed we can start the Quick Realistic Tattoo Montage.
Step 1:
Choose a photo, any size, any quality, it can be a Color photo, or a Black & White photo.
We choose a character who already have tattoos, so you can se how real is going to be the result.

Step 2:
Select the brush tool, and choose the brush that you want to use, it can be the brush you downloaded here, or one of the Devianart set.

Use your Master Diameter to make the tattoo fit in the arm, or in the part of the body that you want to montage it.
Step 3:
Now make a new layer (CTRL + SHIFT + N) and call it "tattoo".

Now put the tattoo in the arm like this:

Step 4:
Select your eraser tool and erase all the Tattoo outside of the body or in clothes, hair , etc.

Step 5:
Change your Tattoo's layer Opacity, put it in 90% or 85%...


And It's done, now you can have any tattoos you want without having the painful Tattoo session.
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