YUP YUP, that's looking a lot like a tattoo!

I always thought a tiny butterfly on the small of the female's back was sexy. That was until I heard it was referred to as the tramp stamp! :unsure:

Bagginsbill, you did an outstanding job with your tutorial.  I tried it out with no complications whatsoever.  Your images alone are self-explanatory.  It is a neat trick to link the picture and mask together so that when you make changes to just one blender, like you stated,  affects everything.  Plutom

Quote - Tribal - slightly blurred - simple blend with a dark blue, 80%.

That's it.  Perfect for this type of single-toned tattoo.

A note: I don't have any tattoos, only piercings.  No amount of tattooing is going to make me look 'sexier'.  ;) But know many people with them.

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Blacksmith 3D Paint can do what you want, and the basic version is free. Here I opened up V3, and clicked my butterfly onto her back. Look on the right side at the resulting color map. You can see that the program took the image apart for me and rotated and scaled the butterfly in two pieces to make it work out seamlessly. You can do this across material zones, too, like head/neck/torso.

The program is a little tricky to learn, but very powerful. The free version will not do above 1K by 1K on a color map, though. For really high-res work, and also to enable all the tools, you should buy it.

I was wondering how you import this butterfly to the program... I keep trying to do it but it always appear as a nem map...

yeap, I did meant blacksmith

thanks ^^

I would have to admit, BB knows his stuff!! tried his work flow and was able to add a picture to a P4 shirt that did not have a texture map..... had to play around with the H and V position to get it to where I wanted it to be....but the final product was what I was looking for....

Thanks for the knowledge share....

cheers

vxg139

This is in response to BB's earlier posts, regarding the Butterfly.

Good but...

real tattoos tend to have slightly faded and blurry edges, even very new, very good ones.  I had one  a couple of weeks ago - my son's name - and even though it's sharp and clear by tattoo standards, it's definitely not print quality.  A new tattoo would also look a bit raised above the skin, since the skin swells slightly.  After all, it's been injured.

The other thing I noticed about the above image are the antennae.  I don't think it's possible to get such a fine line in a tattoo.

I also have a band around one arm - done about 12 years ago - which is very definitely blurred in places.  

I don't think we should lose sight that BB was simply suggesting a novel way of adding textures/images within the Poser.....Also, lets not forget, we are dealing with CGI, not real life.....

I would still take my hat off to BB for his skill sets and willingness to share his knowledge....

Cheers

vxg139

Definitely so.  Reading further on into the post, the results are very good.  The tribal tattoo is very impressive. 

Sorry for bringing up an old thread, but... since the value for diffuse color is turned off is there a way to use this with the SSS wacro in PP2012/P9? I thought maybe someone of you has tried it already - I did but it looked weirdly washed out putting the tattoo into the specular node and turning on diffuse wasn't much better, but it might be me?

Quote - The answer depends on whether or not you have a layer mask for the tattoo. If you don't have a layer mask, then the answer depends on whether the tattoo layer has a unique color for the "not tattoo" parts, such as black or white.

Also, as ashley9803 suggests, I can do it with nodes instead of Photoshop. I like the node approach because:

1. I can skip all that workflow associated with switching between Photoshop and Poser, saving the image and doing test renders. The material room preview will show me exactly what I'm going to get.
2. I can size, position, and rotate the tattoo in shaders.
3. I can easily layer many tatoos in the shader, giving more options for combinations.

How do you want to proceed? What's your scenario?

did you say you can rotate an image?

awesome thread.  thank you so much.

that looks fantastic bb :-) another point to metion for people attempting this,dont make the image too small, i.e really thin lines etc scale the image up to what would realistically be possible with a tattoo gun. ive seen tattoos with handwriting on them and its suprising how big the lines are,the subtle colours are done with very clever needle work on the artists part

Nice!

Hi

I am trying to get a simple black Text tattoo on an avatar, I am following the instructions BB has here, thank you, but for some reason my text is transparent and the background shows as a patch on the skin, I have tried black text and white text with transparnt background, black backdroundt et.c...

Anyone know what I am doign wrong?

thanks

a scrren shot of the node set up might help

Attached Link: http://img258.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=026344524_Capture_122_482lo.JPG

Image or text the body of the tatto looks white, im unsur ehow to get it to be black or colors as it show sin the image itself?

thanks for any help

I think you would set the input2 color in the blender node you plugged that tattoo into to black. I might be wrong though.

zenny1234, that link had some adult pop ups so I removed it.  (http://www.renderosity.com/tos.php)

Go to page one of this thread, towards the bottom you will find the solution.  You will need a mask to isolate the tatoo from the white background and input the mask into the blend attribute.  The actual tatoo will be connected to the input_2.

BagginsBill, are you still online? I'm trying to make sure I'm getting the right tool for the right job and I'm trying to do something very similar to what you did above with the butterfly across the model's back. Question is: does BS3D still do this kind of thing. I'm asking because I wanted to find out before I drop $90 on a solution that might be useless for me. Thanks in advance. 

I have no experience with BS3D. At the time of this thread I simply downloaded an evaluation copy and tried it. I never used it again after posting in this thread.