Make any digital image into a tattoo on a photo

Step 5 Utilization

Share the image with your friends and family or merely keep it for your own reference, the choice is yours.

If you are doing this as a prank (as I was in this particular instance) I recommend a smaller image size as the final product, as its less easily detected as a fraud. Email to prankee in the most nonchalant way you can manage.

Hope folks find this Instructable fun and useful! I recognize that this isn't the only way of doing this- so please feel free to post any suggestions in the comments!

Comments

[NightElectric]

I added a little red to make it look "fresh". I have a mild obsession for jackalopes so it was probably expected by my friends to get a "tattoo" of one.

Time to sit back and enjoy the chaos.

[curious youth]

HOW DID YOU DO THE RED ?! sorry im not a photoshop user looks good though :)

[jackowhacko97]

just download paint.NET. it is free and works well enough for this.

[bpickerill]

Wow! Thanks for sharing! I have to try this when I get my laptop back because I have the same program as you!

[bodiminjarvi666]

Any chance you'll post your mum's response? This is really useful, i think i'll do this to a pic of my girlfriend's back and tell her what happened when she got drunk, heheheh. Thanks mate!

[a grain of alt.]

Sure! I actually was surprised when she didn't call me until around a week later. She told me that she was so surprised, that she was taking some time to "get used to it."

When my mother found out it was an April Fools joke, she decided to show it to all of her co-workers, while telling them how much she loved and got some chuckles as they awkwardly tried to find nice things to say about it. After all, who is going to make fun of a co-worker's kid?

[capecodjewel]

Your mom obviously has your same sense of humor... lol

[Kelticpaddler]

Top mum...good sense of humor!

Good 'ible' mate.

[Jollyshi]

For a more realistic prank, consider adding red to emphasize the freshness of the tattoo? :3 I'm sure that's a little advanced and requires a little more artistic skill, but could really stump some people. Then again, I suppose it may be too much effort for a quickie prank. XD

[chicopluma]

april's fool huge win

[CrazySheep]

Ha! ^^ I've done this before, the results were almost ruefull!! XD
If you don't want to buy photoshop, there's a programe called PainttoolSAI. It's free and it has the 'multiply' and 'opasity' settings, but it's not as complicated as photoshop.

[retired2AZ]

Thanks for the PainttoolSAI suggestion. Any suggestions for Macs?

[pdub77]

Gimp is open source and has most of the features of photoshop. He mentions it in the instructable. I've used it. It's pretty cool.

[jimdkc]

GIMP works OK on Macs... Even better is Pixelmator which sells for just $59.