Samsung Note 10.1 Tattoo Tutorial

Ok, so I'm trying to learn Photoshop Touch, which is supposed to be easier than Photoshop, but there is not a single help button to be found (at least not in any reasonably-accessible place). I started messing around with the tutorials, which were not quite so helpful themselves, either skipping steps, or forgetting to add buttons for other steps. But, despite all the hardship, I found one tutorial so far that's worked for me, so I thought I'd share it with you! Please please PLEASE excuse the horrible pink house-shoes I'm wearing!

I really want a new tattoo, and this time I'm thinking of Backwards Bill by Shel Silverstein. Backwards Bill means a lot to me, because he does everything backwards, yet somehow succeeds. I feel this reflects a bit on my own life, but also I love horses...so Backwards Bill it is!

For this assignment you need Photoshop Touch, preferably for Samsung Note 10.1. The opening screen looks like this:

There's a tiny little button on the bottom right, which is for adding pictures to work with. I've highlighted it in the picture above.

The next step is to take a picture of the body part you want your "tattoo" on. I chose my ankle.

Now you need to add a new layer, which is the small plus sign to the bottom right. Chose "Photo Layer", then chose the tattoo/drawing of your liking. This will transpose the tattoo image on top of your body. At this point you may resize and readjust the tattoo image to your liking. 

Here you can see the tattoo image is clearly too big for my ankle. Now it's simply to use the dots on the corners to scale the image to the right size. Don't forget to place your tattoo in the right spot now, also, as you won't be able to move it later. When you're all finished resizing and readjusting, click "Done".

Next we have to work on our tattoo image to make sure it looks all right after post-processing. Select the top-most picture on your right (in this case, the one above my leg, or the tattoo picture itself). This is the layer we're going to be working with. We're going to have to use the Effects setting, and use the sharpen function to make the lines more crisp. This makes for clearer lines on the final picture. The Effect settings are to be found here:

After you've sharpened the outline of your tattoo image, it's time to blend the white background in with your skin color. 

For this we need to press the button beside the plus sign on the bottom right, I have no idea what it's supposed to be, and neither does it have a name. In this mode you have two choices: Opacity, and Blend Mode. First, set Blend Mode to darken. Then, play around with the Opacity until the "tattoo" looks natural to you (usually around 70%, but I like it closer to 100%).

There you have it, instant tattoo!