FAQ

What is InkOnThis?

InkOnThis is The World's Largest Digital Scrapbook for Tatto & Body Art.

InkOnThis lets you collect, organize and share amazing tattoo’s and body art from both your personal collection as well as from the web. People use pinboards to bookmark and organize all their favorite tattoo videos & pictures. With just one click, you can pin from anywhere on the web and add it to your pinboards.

What is a pin?

A pin is an image or a video added to InkOnThis. A pin can be added from any website or personal collection using the "InkOnThis" button or the "+Add" function, or you can upload images or videos from your computer. Each pin added using the "InkOnThis" button or the "+Add" function links back to the original site it came from.

What is a board?

A board is a set of pins. A board can be created for any niche, subject or topic, such as Henna, Airbrush, Ancient Thai, or Modern. You can add as many pins as you want to a board. You can also create as many boards as you want.

What is following?

You can follow boards from other users. By following a board, all the pins added to this board will be displayed on your InkOnThis home page in real-time.

"Following All" means you'll have all of a user's pins on all their boards shown to you in real-time on InkOnThis.

You can unfollow boards any time: they will not be notified.

How do I sign up for InkOnThis?

Sign up here!

How do I change my email address?

To change your email address, you first need to be logged in to InkOnThis. Once you are logged in, click your username at the top-right of the page and click "Edit Profile". Enter your new email address in the "Email" field and click "Save Profile" at the bottom of the page to complete the procedure.

How do I change my username?

To change your username, you first need to be logged in to InkOnThis. Click your username at the top-right of the page and then click "Edit Profile". Enter a new username in the "Username" field and click "Save Profile" at the bottom of the page to complete the procedure.

How do I change my bio?

To change your bio, you first need to be logged in to InkOnThis. Click your username at the top-right of the page, then click "Edit Profile". Type your new bio in the "About" field, and click "Save Profile" at the bottom of the page to complete the procedure.

How do I change my profile picture?

To change your profile picture, you first need to be logged in to InkOnThis. Click your username at the top-right of the page and then click "Edit Profile". Then click "Change Image" and upload a new picture. A thumbnail preview of your new image profile image will be displayed. Make sure to click "Save Profile" at the bottom of the page to complete the procedure.

How do I change my email notification preferences?

To change your email notification preferences, you first need to be logged in to InkOnThis. Click your username at the top-right of the page and then click "Edit Profile". Then click "Change Email Settings". On this page, you can select which emails you would like to receive from us. Click "Save" at the bottom of the page to complete the procedure.

How to I deactivate my account?

To completely deactivate your account, please contact us at: hello@inkonthis.com

We will delete all your boards and pin. Note that this operation can't be reversed.

Pinning and Re-pinning

What is a "good" pin?

A pin is an image or a video added to InkOnThis. A pin can be added from any website using the "InkOnThis" button or the "Add+" function, or you can upload images or videos from your computer. Each pin added using the "InkOnThis" button or the "Add+" function links back to the original site it came from.

How do I pin with the "InkOnThis" button?

Once installed in your browser bar, the "InkOnThis" button lets you grab an image or video from a site and add it to one of your pinboards. Vist the "How it Works" section to learn how to install it on your browser.

When you see an image you want to pin on a site, simply click the "InkOnThis" button on your browser. This will open a pop-up box that will show all the images you can pin from the page. Select the image you want to pin, select which board the image will go to and enter a description. When you're done, click the "InkOnThis" button. The image will now be available on the selected board.

What is a repin?

A repin is adding an image from another user you like while browsing InkOnThis to your own board. When you repin an image, the user who first pinned the image will be displayed on top right of the image. Repins keep the original link to the source of the image no matter how many times it is repinned.

How do I repin?

To repin an image from InkOnThis, simply click the "Repin" button at the top-left corner of the image.

After you click the "Repin" button, select a board to add the repin. You will also have the option to edit or keep the original description.

Once you are done, click the "Repin" button.

How to edit a pin?

There are two ways to edit one of your pins:

1. When you are viewing the thumbnail of one of your pins, mouse-over it and then click the "Edit" button. Make your changes and then click the "Save" button.

2. When you are viewing a pin in full-size view, click the "Edit" button at the top-left corner of the image. After you make your changes, click the "Save" button.

What is the difference between "Repin" and "Like" a pin?

If you "Like" a pin, the image will be added to the "Likes" section of your profile, but will not be added to one of your boards.

If you "repin" an image, you will be allowed to categorize and add it onto one of your boards. You can always change the description of a "repin", but the source link to the image will always be the same no matter how many times the image is repinned.

Managing and Creating your Boards

What is a board?

A board is a set of pins. A board can be created on any niche, subject or topic such as Tribal, Full Sleeve, New Style, Japanese. You can add as many pins as you want to a board. You can also create as many boards as you want.

How do I create a board?

To create a new board, click the "Add+" button on the top right of the page and select the "Create a Board" function. Enter a board title, select a category and then click the "Create" button.

How do I edit the name of a board?

To edit the name of a board, go to that board and click the "Edit" button. Once you have made the changes, click the "Save Board Settings" button.

How do I delete a board?

To delete a board, go to that board and click the "Edit" button located in the top right corner. Then click the "Delete Board" button. This function will also delete all the pins in that board.

Commenting

How do I to comment on a pin?

There are two ways to comment on a pin:

1. When you are looking at the pin in thumbnail view, do a mouse-over and click the "Comment" button. Then enter your comment in the box and click the "Comment" button under the box to publish it.

2. When you are viewing a full size pin, you can simply type in the comment in the box below the image. Then click the "Post Comment" button to publish it.

Copyright

How do I report copyright infrigment?

To report a copyright infrigment, send an email to: legal@inkonthis.com

What if I don't want images from my site to be pinned on InkOnThis?

Simply add this small piece of code to the head of any page on your site you want to block pinning from InkOnThis:

<meta name="InkOnThis" content="nopin" />


When one of our users tries to pin from your site, he/she will receive the following message:

"The owner from this site doesn't allow pinning to InkOnThis from this page. Please contact the owner with any questions."