Your arm · The design in a sentence · Seconds to a preview
Tattoo Try On
A design on paper and the same design on a forearm are two different objects. Upload the photo, describe the piece, and see it where it will actually live — at the size, on the curve, under your own light.
Tattoo Try On
A real edit made with this tool — drag your own photo in on the left, the prompt is already written, then press Generate.
One forearm, one sentence, ink
Our own run on this site's engines. Drag the divider and check the boring things first: the same hand position, the same veins, the same shadow under the wrist. Then look at how the lines dim slightly as the arm curves. Every output is AI-generated; yours will follow your photo and your description.
Drag to compare before and after
What a virtual tattoo try on actually does
You give it a photo of the bare skin and a sentence describing the piece. It renders that piece onto that skin: right scale, following the curve of the limb, shaded to your photo's own light.
The searches here come from a very specific moment. Someone has already chosen roughly what they want — a crescent moon, a swallow, their grandmother's handwriting — and has stalled on the question no reference image answers: what does it look like on ME. Studios solve this with a paper transfer at the appointment, which is the last possible second to change your mind and the most awkward moment to do it.
Previewing on your own photo moves that decision weeks earlier, into a room where changing your mind costs nothing.
The demo on this page is our own run, and it is worth reading as evidence rather than decoration. The before is a bare inner forearm; the after is the same arm, the same palm-up angle, the same grey surface, with a fine-line crescent and three small stars added a third of the way up from the wrist.
Nothing else moved. That is the whole test — an edit that repaints your arm is not a preview of anything, and if you drag the slider and the hand has changed shape, you are looking at a new picture, not your own.
One limit we will not paper over: in-place add-object edits sometimes re-imagine the base photo instead of editing it. We hit that three times on the sibling AI tattoo generator page during batch testing, which is why the pairs here use a dedicated edit endpoint rather than a general image model. It still misses occasionally. Rerun, and keep the run where you recognise your own veins.
Creative engine
How the preview runs
Photograph the bare skin, describe the piece in one sentence, generate.
Your skin, not a mannequin
The point is your arm's shape, tone and hair — a rendering on a stock forearm answers nobody's question.
Cheaper than regret
Laser removal runs to thousands and hurts more than the tattoo. An afternoon of previews is the cheapest insurance in the whole process.
Three steps to ink you can judge
The photo does most of the work. Shoot it like a fitting, not a snapshot.
Photograph the bare skin
Daylight, no flash, the whole area you are considering in frame with a little room around it. Hold the limb the way you would want to look at the finished piece — the angle you shoot is the angle you will judge.
Say the design and the size
Style, subject, placement, and centimetres: "fine-line crescent moon with three small stars, about six centimetres, inner forearm a third up from the wrist". Vague briefs come back enormous, because nothing told the model not to.
Change one thing and rerun
Same photo, thinner lines. Same photo, moved to the wrist. Comparing two previews of your own arm settles arguments that a hundred saved reference pins never will.
Who previews ink on a photo
Three people, three decisions worth getting right the first time.
The first-timer
No ink yet, and the deliberation has run for years. Seeing a modest piece on your own arm is usually what converts "someday" into a booked consultation — or into the realisation that you wanted the idea more than the tattoo.
The placement-arguer
You and the artist disagree about where it goes. Bring three previews of the same design on the same arm instead of a description, and the conversation takes two minutes.
The collector planning a gap
Filling a space between existing pieces means matching weight and style, not just picking a design. Preview the candidate in the gap — and if you are working around ink you no longer want, see what could cover it before you commit to filling around it.
Tattoo try on FAQ
The things people ask before the deposit.
Yes — add the drawing alongside your skin photo and ask for that design placed at your chosen spot. A clean, high-contrast scan on white transfers best. If the artwork is a photo of a sketchbook page with shadows across it, flatten it first or the model will render the shadows as part of the design.
No. It shows a fresh, well-executed rendering. Real ink spreads slightly over the years, fine lines thicken, and colour shifts — an effect no preview models. Ask your artist how the piece will age at that size; it is the single most useful question in the consultation.
Yes, and it is worth doing precisely because most flash is photographed on pale arms. Black and bold linework read very differently across skin tones, and previewing on your own photo is a far more honest answer than a portfolio shot of someone else.
You can, and the wider the area the more the model improvises. Full sleeves are best previewed in sections against a photo that shows the whole arm, and treated as a mood check rather than a plan. Small and mid-size pieces are where this is genuinely accurate.
It is uploaded over HTTPS for the edit and kept in your own history until you delete it. It is never used to advertise. Every output is AI-generated.
The model re-imagined the photo instead of editing it — the known weak spot of add-an-object edits. Rerun the same photo; the runs that hold the base come back within a few tries, and the only one worth keeping is the one where the skin is unmistakably yours.
Kavel pricing — pay only for what you generate
One credit pool covers Nano Banana images and Seedance and Veo video. The cost shows before every run, and failed jobs are not charged. Use a subscription for ongoing work, or a one-time pack when you just need to top up.
Starter
What's included
- 33,500 credits per year
- Works with Nano Banana images and Seedance and Veo video
- Cost preview before you generate
- Generation history
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Creator
What's included
- 89,700 credits per year
- Access to Seedance 2.0, Fast, and Mini
- Nano Banana 2 generation and editing
- Priority credit top-ups
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Studio
What's included
- 166,800 credits per year
- Built for high-volume Kavel generation
- Plenty of room for 4K rendering
- Available across the supported models
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Credit packs
One-time top-ups — buy extra credits any time you run low.
Credit Pack 1500
What's included
- 1,500 credits
- No ongoing subscription
- Available across the supported models
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Credit Pack 3600
What's included
- 3,600 credits
- No ongoing subscription
- Available across the supported models
- Use for both video and image generation
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Credit Pack 9000
What's included
- 9,000 credits
- No ongoing subscription
- Handy for Seedance 2.0 final renders
- Valid for 365 days
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Use one balance across the supported image and video models (Nano Banana 2 / Nano Banana Pro / Seedance 2 / Veo 3.1), and check the credit cost before each request.
Video models
Image models
Model credit guide
What each model costs in credits
You're only charged for successful generations. The exact estimate in the generator varies by model, length, resolution, audio, and number of images.
| Type | Model | Credit cost |
|---|---|---|
| Video | Seedance 2.0 | 5s 720p image-to-video ≈ 188 credits; text-to-video ≈ 308 credits. Scales with resolution and length. |
| Video | Seedance 2 Fast | Faster and lower cost. 5s 720p text-to-video ≈ 248 credits. Mini is cheaper still. |
| Video | Veo 3.1 | Billed per video (Lite). About 34 credits at 1080p, about 23 at 720p. |
| Image | Nano Banana 2 | Generate or edit from text and images. About 8 credits per 1K image, 12 at 2K, 18 at 4K. |
| Image | Nano Banana Pro | Consistent run times across generations. About 12 credits per 1K or 2K image, 21 at 4K. |
| Image | Nano Banana 2 Lite | Faster, simpler variant. About 8 credits per image. Start here to test. |
The rest of the tattoo bench
Design it, stencil it, or cover the one you regret.
See it on your own skin first
One photo, one sentence, and the design stops being a pin on a board — then [turn the winner into a stencil](/image/tattoo-stencil-maker) for the appointment.