Your Digital Tattoo Portfolio: What Matters on the Page

A digital tattoo portfolio is the page a client opens before they email you. Instagram is where they find the work. It is a poor place to leave your prices, your books, and a link you still control next year.

The Portfolio Template in Tattoo Studio Pro help is the free version of that page. The rest of this post is what that template includes, and the hosting line people skip.

What the free portfolio includes

Help describes a single page with six sections. You edit it in an admin panel: name, bio, specialties, contact, and a gallery. Dark and light themes are in there. You do not write HTML.

Two ways out of the editor. Download a ZIP and host the files wherever you want. Or publish to a portfolio.ink address.

The download is the $0 path. Publishing to portfolio.ink uses Tattoo Studio Pro hosting. A subscriber claims hosting with the subscription, and help says there is nothing to pay. If you do not subscribe, the hosting article is $10 a month or $100 a year. “The template is free” does not make that publish line $0.

Subscribers can connect their Tattoo Studio Pro portfolio or booking form. The gallery and contact details you typed in are static files in the ZIP. If the exported site uses that connected portfolio or booking form, those features load live from Tattoo Studio Pro and need an internet connection.

The longer setup is on the free tattoo portfolio page.

A full site, if one page is too small

The Artist template is $99 one-time, and the Studio template is $199 one-time. Help puts 7 pages on each: Home, About, Portfolio, Services, Aftercare, Policies, and Contact. Studio adds a team page and more than one gallery, so each artist is not squeezed into a single grid. Booking sits outside those seven: switch it on and paste an embed.

Those prices were on the template pages in this repo on November 8, 2026. You can build before you buy. A subscriber publishes that paid template without a separate license, after claiming the included website. A ZIP of the Artist or Studio template still needs a license. The free portfolio ZIP above is a different file.

Deposits and consent forms are not in the template file. Consent forms are in the app. Parent or guardian fields show on the in-studio form when the client is under 18. The public online check-in cannot capture that consent.

If someone else should build the $99 or $199 site, setup is $799 or $999 one-time. The first year of hosting is included, then $100 a year unless your subscription includes hosting. The price split is on custom tattoo shop websites.

What to check before you upload a hundred photos

Ask whether you can download the files. The Portfolio Template’s ZIP is the answer for this tool. For any other builder, ask them. This post did not open their export screens.

Look at the page on your phone before you send the link to a client. The help article builds the portfolio as a single scrolling page with a lightbox. If the photos are unreadable on a phone, fix the photos. The template will not crop a dark snapshot into a clean healed shot.

Say the domain out loud. portfolio.ink is the hostname when you publish with us. A name you already bought connects from the Hosting page, and SSL is on that connection. Email forwarding and DNS sit on the same hosting plan. The registrar still bills you for the name.

Photos, briefly

Healed work reads more clearly than a photo taken while the skin is still red. Phone cameras are enough if the light is even. A row of flash and a row of custom work is easier to scan than one mixed grid. What to put in the gallery is covered on tattoo artist portfolio.

FAQs

Is a digital tattoo portfolio free?

The Portfolio Template is free. Hosting on portfolio.ink is included with a Tattoo Studio Pro subscription. Otherwise hosting is $10 a month or $100 a year. The ZIP download is the path that does not use that hosting plan.

What is the difference between the free portfolio and the $99 site?

The free portfolio is one page. The Artist template is $99 one-time. Help lists 7 pages: Home, About, Portfolio, Services, Aftercare, Policies, and Contact. Booking is a separate switch, plus an embed slot. The Studio template is $199 one-time and adds a team page.

Can clients book from the portfolio?

Subscribers can show a booking form with the portfolio, from the app. The template file is not a deposit page. Card payments for the studio go through the studio’s Stripe account.

Can I download the portfolio later?

Yes. Help has a ZIP download. That is the copy you can move to another host.

Does the portfolio include a consent form?

No. Consent forms are in Tattoo Studio Pro, not in the portfolio ZIP. The in-studio form adds parent or guardian fields when the client is under 18.

Do I need tattoo portfolio software beyond the page?

You need a place for the photos and a way to answer a booking request. The free page covers the photos. Booking, deposits, and the consent record are the studio subscription, priced on the pricing page. Solo there is $29 a month or $239 a year for 1 team member, and hosting is included.