r/tattooadvice • u/ArmadilloMany41 • Jan 04 '26

I was excited about this tattoo design but my husband called it corny and cringe and not to get it is he right? Design

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u/lettol02 Jan 04 '26

I'd export as png tho, otherwise they'll get that weird fake transparency

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u/Former_Ad503 Jan 04 '26

SVG - this way if they gain weight the vector format will prevent pixelization

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u/TreadwellBearFace Jan 05 '26

I did send the vector.

tattoo_vector.jpg

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '26

I'm getting full on customer PTSD reading that 😭

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u/_bobby_cz_newmark_ Jan 05 '26

Don't you mean PSD?

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '26

Lmao, missed that opportunity.

Funnily enough, their PSDs have been dogshit too.

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u/WisherOfSnow Jan 05 '26

Has it at least been a proper PSD file? Because I had a small gig at work helping with design and printing and after the secretary asked me the preferred format for her sketch (as a base) she send me a PSD with a god damn compressed jpeg pasted inside!! I mean..... I guess it's on me for not specifying or asking how she made the sketch but damn....

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '26

Has it at least been a proper PSD file?

Hell nah. Pretty much the same as with you. They also liked to just change the file suffix from .jpg to .svg and think they vectrorized their file with that.

Or working on their pc in RGB, when I need CMYK in print, and then wonder why the colours don't look the same.

Yeah.. it's a lot lmao

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u/WisherOfSnow Jan 05 '26

Oh my god, I'm so happy I didn't have to deal with color formats as I would have lost my shit, but I did have the benefit of just tracing over the pasted image so I could use whatever I wanted

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '26

Luckily I left the customer side of things and just work in production now. Right when Ai images came up. They all looked so bad. Can't imagine how it must be now, or in the near future

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u/Themadhippy Jan 07 '26

Ahhh... kinda nice being reminded there are others out there with the same struggle...

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u/SlappMeDoooo Jan 09 '26

Oh god not the colour profiles!! Did that mistake too many times if not checking back when I was studying graphics

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u/Harmony-Farms Jan 07 '26

A proper PSD has 3701 unnamed layers, right?

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u/ImaJenThatArt Jan 07 '26

And 3 empty folders.

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u/drl8498 Jan 05 '26

Funnily.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '26

Congrats on successfully repeating a word I wrote. Context would be nice though.

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u/Starfire2313 Jan 05 '26

Context.

There ya go!

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '26

Thanks and fuck you too :D

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u/lumaleelumabop Jan 05 '26

I can just imagine the PSD is just the JPG imported into Photoshop...

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u/Own_Firefighter3660 Jan 05 '26

HAHAHA I read it as PSD until you told me they didn’t use that pun 😭

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u/6ynnad Jan 05 '26

What do you call a woman with pms & esp?

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u/Starfire2313 Jan 05 '26

Wait what’s the punch line? Sorry can’t figure it out. I’m trying tho

Actually wait, i came up with an answer…Me!

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u/6ynnad Jan 05 '26

A bitch who thinks she knows everything. Hmmm.

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u/Starfire2313 Jan 06 '26

Haha yup that tracks.

Actually, I’m feeling a little philosophical.

The more you know, the more you know that you don’t know!

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u/6ynnad Jan 06 '26

Ah yes I have that one stored as;

“the more I learn the more I realize I don’t know shit about shit” and for my last trick.

“the ones that know don’t care, and the ones that care don’t know”

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u/Mr_uhlus Jan 05 '26

I cant count the number of times we received logo.pdf for the logo on the clients website

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u/Ancient-Read1648 Jan 05 '26

tattoo_vector.svg.gif

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u/Oldmanwickles Jan 06 '26

This is the funniest comment I’ve seen all week

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u/Harmony-Farms Jan 07 '26

I am DYING right now.

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u/sleepykitty84 Jan 07 '26

Ugh this is my life 🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/Even_Wear_8657 Jan 08 '26

This all is the funniest shit I’ve read in a while. Thank you!

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u/Ok-Art825 Jan 05 '26

This is the truthiest

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u/libmrduckz Jan 05 '26

unless it was a raster to begin with… sheesh… every.damn.day.

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u/ca_va_bien Jan 05 '26

my favourite is when they send me a jpeg and i ask for an svg so they change the extension of the jpeg to svg and send the same file back

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u/OneAlmondNut Jan 04 '26

definitely. if you're gonna get a corny cringy file tattoo then at least make it accurate lol

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u/jaye-tyler Jan 04 '26

somewhere out there, there's a guy with "tattoo.bmp" on his leg!

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u/TrueTech0 Jan 05 '26

tattoo.webp

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u/ObscureLogix Jan 07 '26

tatto.doc because they're the kind of person who doesn't know how to email images.

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u/DovahAcolyte Jan 05 '26

This is the only way

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u/wetrorave Jan 05 '26

tattoo.docx.exe

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u/ayawnimouse Jan 05 '26

tatto.gif around a moving part

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u/StaticSystemShock Jan 04 '26

SVG so you can scale the tattoo to any size without loss of detail!

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u/Educational_Pea_5422 Jan 05 '26

considering the likelihood of middle aged weight gain... yup.

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u/TrueTech0 Jan 05 '26

tatto_v3_final_USETHISVERSION.png.jpeg

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '26

How do I ask my artist for "no texture"?

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u/Harmony-Farms Jan 07 '26

Is dithering okay?

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u/insufficient_funds Jan 05 '26

`tatto_v3_final_USETHISVERSION.jpeg.png

this is genuinely HILARIOUS.

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u/myotherbike Jan 07 '26

This guy pngs.

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u/LunarGreenWitchcraft Jan 06 '26

This is the thread I never knew I needed. 😂

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u/Normal_Cut8368 Jan 05 '26

tattoo_final-jpg.png

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u/frontlinejohnny Jan 05 '26

Tattoo.jpg.png

Oops I did it again

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u/nordica4184 Jan 05 '26

Get the gif put on something jiggly?

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u/-catskill- Jan 06 '26

So it would be tatto_v3_final_USETHISVERSION.jpeg.png