Editing a published post
What you can change on a post after publishing — the description, the people tagged in it, and the order of your carousel photos — plus the extra things you can change on a flash design, and why a tattoo post's style, placement, and size details are locked.
You can edit a post after it's published. On any post you can change the description, who's tagged, and the order of your photos. On a flash post you can also change the design tags — the style, elements, colour, size and placement — and mark individual designs as taken once someone has claimed them.
Everything you change is saved together when you tap Save. On every other kind of post, the style, placement, size, and other details you picked when posting are locked once the post goes live (more on why below).
Step by step
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Open the editor
Open your own post, tap the three-dots menu, and choose Edit post. The edit screen opens with your current description, photos, and tags.
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Edit the description
Tap the description box and rewrite it however you like. Nothing is sent anywhere until you tap Save.
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Reorder your photos
If your post has more than one photo, drag them into any order you want. The first photo becomes the cover shown on your profile grid — so this is how you swap which image leads. You can't add or remove photos here, only reorder the ones already on the post.
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Add or remove tagged people
Search for someone to tag, or tap the ✕ next to a current tag to remove them. Which people you can tag depends on the post — the same rules as when you first published (for example, only tattoo and flash posts let you tag fellow artists). Tag changes are staged with a "Will be added / removed on Save" note, so nothing happens until you Save.
When you Save, anyone you added receives a request to be tagged and only appears as a credit once they accept — exactly like tagging at posting time. See Tagging and reposting for how that approval works.
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Flash only: mark a design as taken
On a flash post, each design in the list has an Available / Taken switch. Tap it when someone claims that design. The design stays on your sheet with a Taken label on it — it isn't hidden or deleted, because a sheet full of claimed pieces is good evidence your work moves.
Clients who turn on Available designs only in the flash filters won't see sheets where every single design is taken. A sheet with one design still free keeps showing.
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Flash only: edit the design tags
On a flash post, tap Edit design tags to change the style, elements, colour, size and placement. You get the same four pickers you used when posting, and the same limits apply — three colours, five placements, four sizes.
Editing tags doesn't move your design in the feed and doesn't change its score. It's the same design at the same age, just described differently.
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Save
Tap Save to apply everything at once. If you leave without saving, nothing changes.
Frequently asked questions
- Why can I edit the tags on a flash design but not on a tattoo post?
Because they're two different kinds of thing. A tattoo post is a record of work you've already done — its details are a statement of fact about a finished piece, and changing them afterwards would either be a correction or a fib. A flash design is an offer that hasn't happened yet, and offers genuinely change. You might decide a piece would sit just as well on a forearm as a thigh, or that you'd happily do it in colour. Making the offer more accurate shouldn't cost you the post.
- Can I edit flash tags to get more views?
No — that's why it's allowed. Editing tags doesn't touch when the post was published or its score, so it can't push your design back up the feed or buy it any extra reach. All it does is change which searches find it.
- Why can't I change the style, placement, or size on my tattoo post?
Those details are locked once a tattoo post is published. They're what powers search and filtering, so letting people keep changing them after seeing how a post performs would be unfair and would muddy search for everyone. If a detail is genuinely wrong, the clean fix is to delete the post and post it again with the right details.
- Can I mark a design as available again after marking it taken?
Yes. The switch works both ways, as many times as you need — if a claim falls through, flip it back.
- Does marking a design as taken remove it from the app?
No. It stays visible on your sheet with a Taken label, so people can still see what you draw. It only disappears from the results of people who've asked to see available designs only, and even then only once every design on that sheet is taken.
- I removed someone who had reposted my work — what happens to their repost?
When you remove a tag from someone who reposted, the app asks whether to also take down their repost. Choose Keep their repost to just remove your credit, or Remove repost too to take their copy down as well. If they never reposted, removal is silent. See Tagging and reposting for how reposts work.
- Does editing the description notify anyone?
No. Only adding a new tag sends a notification — and only when you tap Save, not the moment you pick the person.
- Can I add a new photo to a post I already published?
No — you can only reorder the photos already on the post. To change the photos themselves, you'd delete the post and post again.
- Can I change the studio or city on a flash design?
No. The location on a flash design follows wherever you're currently working, and it updates itself — so there's nothing to edit by hand.
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