LUCI’S “BUT THE ORIGINAL IMAGE WAS WHITEWASHED IS A SHIT EXCUSE” PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL

Scrolling through photos of my OC’s faceclaim is really irritating. She’s somewhat light-skinned, but she is half Black, not that you would know it by looking at her in most of her pictures, except the ones where she’s not wearing makeup and skin editing is minimized, such as these ones where you can see her freckles.

I used to just get annoyed whenever I put the same PSD over one picture of her that didn’t leave her looking whitewashed and another that made her skin literally #ffffff white. But then I did some really quick googling and found some ways of editing skin tone, particularly for the sake of darkening skin tone. I’ve laid out the simple process here, under the cut, with the before and after shown here (note that she is still somewhat light skinned because she is not a dark skinned person and I am not trying to pretend she is, but as shown at the end of this tutorial, this does work on dark skinned people who have been whitewashed);

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