3-Fold question about L.I.E. placing a custom Tattoo and SSS

Mescalino

OK, here goes.

I have a character that i want to give a custom tattoo with a bit of a cyber theme. I found an image i liked from a game. Opened up photoshop and mate it into a transparent png.

I used the L.I.E. to place it on my arm and as you see in image 1 and 2 it turned out pretty good. The angle allignment is slightly off but not in a disturbing way so i may end up messing it up more. (hard determining the angle by guessing)

In image 3 you see the result. It does not look black. 

After some fiddeling i noticed 2 things: image 4, when i change the SSS Colour to white the tattoo is black but the skin looks bad.

Simple question was or rather is how do i fix this.

Then i noticed a second thing. I also have the bellatrix tattoo D on that one looks fine. So played the "look for differences" game and i noticed that in the L.I.E. the layer of teh arm skin has a mask.
 Now something tells me that this does something to override or correct what happens in image 4 (and therefore in 3).

Is this correct? and if so. How do i make such mask and apply it. 

 

Thanks in advance

 

EDIT : i tried to duplicate the belatrix tattoo settings but i am probably doing something wrong. as it is still not working.

FenixPhoenix

Try adding the tattoo to the translucency channel map as well. Most of the time, that fixes it.

Mescalino

Thanks i will give that a try tonight.

Mescalino

FenixPhoenix said:

Try adding the tattoo to the translucency channel map as well. Most of the time, that fixes it.

I saw the bellatrix tattoo was added there as well. And after putting my tattoo there as well. It was black!

Thanks a lot!!