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Tattoo Design Software
Whenever someone wants a tattoo on their skin, usually they would go online and look at other people’s tattoo or browse the thousands of online galleries and pick their favourite one. Usually a perfect tattoo is found but most of the time, there are just too many to choose from.
Usually the coolest one are already on the skins of hundreds of other people! Why do you want to be one of the hundreds sharing the same tattoo design?
So what do you do when you want a unique tatto but you have zero skills in drawing or photoshop? Then it is time to try your hand on designing the tattoo yourself using a tattoo designing software.
Here I will list out a few tattoo designing software that I found online. Hopefully it will help you in case you are wondering which one is perfect for you. This is not a “tattoo gallery” type where you browse designs and print your favourite. The software here have the ability to alter the design and make it unique to you!
Caution though, I have never used any of the software listed here so my reviews are based on the users testimonies, video demonstration and snapshots.
* The following are not in any order of preferences or ranking.
Tattoo Director
Site: http://www.tattoodirector.com
Price: US$29.95
Money-back: 30-day
This software is actually a basic image editing program, just like photoshop but you don’t need to be an expert to use it. It has a gallery of hundreds of line drawings which you can retrieve and modify.
You can color it, resize it, add text to it and combine more than 1 image to produce your own mashup of images. Then after you are satisfied with your design, you can then print them out as temporary tattoos or show them to the tattoo artist to have them inked on your skin.
Here’s the description from the site:
Tattoo Director can create: tattoo art, tattoo designs, temporary tattoos, skull tattoos,cross tattoos, text tattoos, lower back tattoos, dragon tattoos, animal tattoos, arm tattoos, Japanese tattoos, flower tattoos, tribal, and many more.
Choose From Hundreds Of Line Art Drawings, Add Tattoo Ink Colors From The Color Palette, Choose The Text From Our Font Library, Change The Text Color, Try It Out With Temporary Before The Real Thing, Add Multiple Tattoo Images To Create a Collage, Print or Save To Disc For Your Tattoo Artist.
You can order it online and the download link will be emailed to you after your payment is through. It is supported on Windows 2000, XP, Vista and the latest Windows 7. There is also a 30-day money back guarantee, so if it doesn’t work out for you, you can always get your money back.
See here a video demonstration:
Problem watching the video? Try to go to the video site here. Visit Tattoo Director here!
CreateATattoo.com
Site: http://www.createatattoo.com
Price: US$19.95 for 1-year access
Money-back : 90-days
One of the popular type of tattoos are tribal art design and this software helps you find your unique design. You just need to browse for the design that you fancy, modify it by resizing, stretching or making it more curvy and then print it out!
From the site description:
Just pick a design/template and modify it with ease using createatattoo V2 online tribal creating software. The same software used by professional tribal tattoo designers but now online with over 1000 + templates/designs to customize. That’s right 1000+ designs/templates that can be tweaked,modified, and printed inside with new designs added daily!!
This is an online or web-based application which means that you don’t have to download any programs and install on your PC. It will run within your browser so it doesn’t matter if you’re on a Mac or Windows but that means will only work when you are online (as oppose to an installed software).
When you subscribe, you are actually paying for a time-limited access to the site. You will be given a username and password to login. Visit createAtattoo.com for some video demonstration and more pictures.
Online Tattoo Maker
Site: http://www.tattoodesign.com
Price: US$39.95 (1 year)/ US$69.95 (Lifetime)
Money-back: 60 Days
This online-based software usage is very much like the Tattoo Director but it is web-based just like CreateATattoo. You can browse their 10,000 tattoo designs in their online gallery with an additional tattoo maker software. So with an arsenal like that you will never run out of ideas in coming out with your own unique design.
When you signup, you will also receive 3 ebooks worth almost US$100 containing quality tattoo design.
Site description: Make your own tattoo right here with our online tattoo creator! With our huge library of tattoo designs and clip art, you can use this tattoo generator to design and print your own tattoos!
Visit their site here which also has a video demonstration.
Hummingbird Tattoos
Among the most popular tattoos for ladies is the hummingbird. Well who doesn’t love hummingbirds? They are so cute and so small, yet so hardworking in their daily task of searching for food. They are among the smallest living bird in the world and they can flap their wings up to 90 times per second! In-flight their heart-beat has been recorded to beat up to 1260 beats per minute and has the highest burning metabolism in all of the animal kingdom.
Not bad for the small creatures huh?
In ancient culture especially among the Aztecs, the hummingbird represents vigor, energy, and propensity for work. Hummingbird talismans were prized as drawing sexual potency, energy, vigor, and skill at arms and warfare to the wearer. Even one of the mysterious Nazca lines in Peru depict the a hummingbird, that is the biggest “drawing” of a hummingbird.
In modern and popular culture, there are no known strong meaning attach to the hummingbird. However based on their physical ability and behaviour, a hummingbird can symbolise someone who is hardworking and yet still enjoy life, based on the colors that is displayed from their feathers.
There are more than 300 bird species within the hummingbird families all with their own colors and thus, tattoos depicting them tend to be colorful, fresh and vibrant.
As hummingbird like to suck the nectars from flowers, usually tattoos design will incorporate flowers with the hummingbird, adding some floral decoration to the already-beautiful hummingbird tattoos.
Here are some hummingbird tattoos design and tattoos pictures if you would like to get one;
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- © Tatoos-By-Design.co.uk
Hummingbird designs
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Make your own homemade tattoo machine
I stumbled upon this DIY video of creating your own home-made tattoo machine.
Not sure if this is safe or not, follow with caution! You will also need some good tools. There are 3 videos in all.
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Temporary Tattoo Stencils
A stencil is actually a hard paper which has black outlines following a design or pattern. Stencils for permanent tattoo design are used by tattoo artists where the black lines from the stencils is transferred to the skin by applying water while on top of the skin.
The artists then apply the tattoo following the outline transferred from the stencil. This is usually done so that the artist gets the design right and most importantly, the person getting the tattoo have already seen the design and agreeing to it, before getting them permanently inked on their skin. Usually when a tattoo artist start their work the person would not be able to see how the design looks like until the artist is finished.
So using a stencil would give the person a peace of mind, as he is already happy with the design in place.
But what about temporary tattoo stencils? Well a temporary tattoo stencils are similar to the stencils explained above but used for temporary tattoos, for which the tattoo artist does not use permanent ink or injecting any kind of ink under the skin.
One of the popular method of applying temporary tattoos is airbrushing. It is easy, non-toxic and have a multitude of designs available. However to help the artist airbrushing the correct design, a stencil is needed.
The stencils here is different from the permanent tattoo stencils, instead of black lines with the ability to be transferred to the skin, the stencils here has large holes or exposed area. This is where the artist will spray their paint, according to the general outline of the design.
Why is it temporary? The bottom part of the stencil is sticky and meant to be stuck to the skin while it is being sprayed on. This is to prevent the stencil from moving around. So as the stencil is being used multiple times, the bottom part will lose its stickiness.
Not to mention that the liquid from the spray action will soften the stencil. An average the stencil can be used between 4-6 times before they are discarded.
An airbrush temporary tattoos can produce stunning colors on design such as the full-colored hummingbird tattoos.
It is expected that temporary tattoos and the demand for stencils will only go higher as many would not want to endure the pain if they go under the tattoo machine. A sure hit are these temporary tattoo for kids, where not many parents would object to.