Custom designs

Test Your Own Tattoo Design Before the Appointment

From sketch to skin, before the needle

The riskiest moment of a custom tattoo is the gap between the drawing you approved and the reality on your body. Designs are approved on paper or a screen — flat, white background, no anatomy. Then the stencil goes on and you're deciding under time pressure in the studio.

Closing that gap is simple: photograph the placement, import the design file into the app, and fit it to your body. Now you're approving the tattoo the way you'll actually wear it. If the proportions fight the muscle, if the detail is too dense for the size, if it needs to shift two centimeters — you'll see it days before the appointment, when changes are free.

This works with anything you can save as an image: your artist's draft (most will happily send a PNG), a design you commissioned online, a photo of existing flash, or your own drawing photographed on white paper. Designs on clean backgrounds blend best, and the eraser cleans up whatever's left.

Make the preview your artist brief

A preview photo is the clearest brief you can hand a tattoo artist: exact design, exact placement, exact size, on your actual body. It kills the ambiguity of "about this big, somewhere here".

Bring two or three saved variants (sizes or positions) to the consultation and let the artist react — they'll flag what won't age well and adjust the stencil to match the winner. You save studio time, and studios notice clients who show up this prepared.

Step by step in the app

1. Get the design as an image — Ask your artist for the draft, or photograph your sketch flat on white paper in good light.
2. Photograph the placement — Shoot the body part where the piece will go, from the angle it's most often seen.
3. Import the design — In the editor, add your own design from the gallery — it drops onto the photo as a layer.
4. Fit and blend it — Scale, rotate, skew; erase background remnants and edge overlaps; nudge transparency for realism.
5. Save variants for the consult — Export 2–3 sizes/positions and bring them to your artist — decide together from previews, not guesses.