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INKHUNTER - AI Tattoo Design
Art Generator with AR viewer
The InkHunter app features a cool use of augmented reality that allows you to test-drive a tattoo on your body in real time.
The result is realistic enough that it might empower you to finally schedule that appointment—or go back to the drawing board.
You can start by browsing a gallery of designs from tattoo artists worldwide. Find one you like and tap “try”—the app will pull up your iOS device’s camera, with three lines superimposed, in a U shape (or “smile,” as InkHunter calls it).
Draw three similar lines on your body with a pen, at the approximate scale you think you’d like the tattoo to be. Position the camera view to roughly match the lines you’ve drawn and voilà: The tattoo appears onscreen, on your skin, as if you’d spent hours in the chair under the needle.
Here’s a handy tip: If you can’t quite reach the desired tattoo location with your iPhone camera (like your shoulder blade or the underside of your arm), use an existing photo of yourself as the model. The images will work like stickers that you can scale up or down. If your overlaid tattoo makes the ink seem sharper than it would in real life, a few simple tweaks will have it looking real. By tapping the pencil icon, you can edit your tattoo with a handful of filters that allow you to add texture (called skin structure here), blur it (to simulate how a tat will age), and adjust saturation and opacity, from bold to translucent.
Of course, you can experiment with your own designs too, either hand-drawn by you or your tattoo artist or found elsewhere. Simply take a picture with your iOS camera, then edit the image and mock it up on your skin. Now comes the fun part: feedback. After you’ve taken and edited your shot, you can send it to friends and family via iMessage or social media, or save it to your Camera Roll. For some entertainment, fire off the shot to Mom (without telling her that the tattoo isn’t quite real) and see what happens.