Final Result Preview:
Step 1:
First open the image with the girl in Photoshop. Duplicate the background and make the original one invisible.
The image looks ok as it is. Open the image with the tattoo, copy and paste it into the project. Place it like you see below :
Change the blend mode to
Multiply and lower the opacity to
87%.
Let's do this tattoo look more realistic !
Apply Gaussian Blur. Go to
Filter >
Blur >
Gaussian Blur and set for the
Radius 0,
3 pixels.
Click on the little box in front of the Preview and check and uncheck it to see the result of Gaussian Blur filter.
Now take the
Eraser Tool, set the Hardness to
25% and for Size choose
9 pixels and start erasing this parts form the tattoo :
And thats how you apply a tattoo on somebody's skin. :)
Step 2:
Open it and place it in the design. Grab the Pen Tool and select the dolphin. It's not necessary to select it's tail because you won't need it.
You have to inverse the selection, because if you press the Delete
key now you will delete the dolphin and you want to delete the sky and
the ocean around it. If you already pressed it, it's ok, you can always
come back to the previous move. Hold down
Ctrl key and press
Z key. If you want to undo more then one move, press
Ctrl +
Alt +
Z.
The default numbers of undo in Photoshop is six (if I remember correctly). You can increase this number going to
Edit >
Preference >
Performance and from here change History States to what number you want.
I usually set it to 100.
And now back to our design. Go to
Select >
Inverse (
Ctrl +
Shift +
I) and hit
Delete key on your keyboard. Press
Ctrl +
D to deselect.
Step 3:
Use
Free Transform (
Ctrl +
T) and place the dolphin above the one from the tattoo.
With the
Free Transform still on,
right-click on it and choose
Warp, in order to make the dolphin's tail to blend with the tattooed tail.
Press enter to apply the transformation.
Make the tattoo layer active and using
Eraser Tool, erase the dolphin underneath as you see below:
Step 4:
Make the dolphin layer invisible. Take the
Clone Tool and clone the areas from the tattooed dolphin to cover the wing above it.
Make sure you have Aligned Sample set to Current Layer, so the Clone Tool will use for sample only the active layer.
Step 5:
Activate the dolphin's layer and apply a mask to it.
Take the
Brush Tool, set Hardness to
0 and start erasing parts form the dolphin.
Use the image below for reference.
Now reduce the opacity and flow of the brush and erase again some
parts, just so you can see some of the tattoo through the dolphin.
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