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PUNK YOURSELF UP - How to add tattoos and piercings in Photoshop.
Maybe you're thinking about mutilating your own flesh, but you aren't sure what it's going to look like, or maybe you want to send your photo to friends and family and show them how tough you are, but you're a bit of a scaredy-cat. Whatever the reason, Photoshop can come in real handy for adding tattoos and piercings. The best thing is, of course, is that it's easy to do, cheaper and (relatively) pain-free.
requirements:
Adobe Photoshop 6 or higher
target result:

step 1
I'm going to use this image, mainly because she looks as if she needs some ink and metal. When choosing your image, pay attention to the lighting, as this can change the final outcome. Ok, let's get punked up.


step 2
Press SHIFT+M and cycle through the marquee tools until you come to the circle (alright, elliptical marquee tool) . Once that's selected, you'll see some options at the top of the canvas. In the drop down list next to Style, choose 'Fixed Aspect Ratio'. This of course gives us a perfectly round circle selection every time. Go ahead and drag one out now. Not too big, though.


step 3
Good. Now we need to go Select->Modify->Border. A screen pops up asking you how many pixels wide you want it to be. I put 3 here.


step 4
Now we need to put something in it. Stop! Before we fill it with color, we have to make a new layer (CRTL+SHIFT+N). Now press SHIFT +F5 to bring up the Fill screen, and from the drop down menu choose '50% grey'.


step 5
We don't need the selection now, so CRTL+D to deselect. Now a round circle isn't going to be very realistic. What we need to do now is distort it a bit. Press CRTL+T to enter transform mode, then right-click and choose 'Distort' from the menu. Now play around moving the handlebars around the square:


step 6
Good. We could now just take the eraser tool and get rid of that bit in the middle. A better way, though, is to use a mask. At hte bottom of the layers panel you'll see a little grey rectangle with a white circle in it. Click it and our layer gets a brother. The foreground/background colors also change to black and white. Now if we paint black, it will take away the ring, and if we then paint white, it will bring back what we painted black.


step 7
Just to the left of the mask icon on the layers panel, you will see as well the Layer Style icon. Click it now and from the list that springs down, choose 'Bevel and Emboss'. This is pops up another screen with lots of options on it. We don't need to change anything for now, though. You will also see that our ring is updated in real time, so we can see the results straight away.


step 8
To give it more highlights and make it shinier, hit the 'Gloss Contour' box. Another screen pops up where you can alter the mapping. Just click and drag the black line until it is like the example.




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