Ok, after a few "hit and miss" moments watching youtube videos of creating a tattoo for my avi, I am now stumped to converting it to a practical tat. The videos I found show a how to create but not to convert and save (if that makes sense). I used a template to locate and size it via Avatar UV Templates, using Gimp and uploaded it to inventory as a png file. I expect I will have to move and adjust on the body, it's getting over the hump that I'm having trouble with, the hump being after upload and telling the platform this is a tattoo and to treat it as such. For the record, I created an avi alt strictly for this kind of playing so as not to interfer with my main character. If I can get it onto my alt with success, I will share it with the main one. Thank you Rolig! That was the hump and I cleared it.... Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!