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poc friendly psd hub

[blissfulsummer]

welcome to blissfulsummer! a blog made to collect poc friendly psds for editors to find easily + use! i'm also open to giving advice on how to make your psd more poc friendly! any criticism given is coming from me geniunely trying to help. apologies if i come off as rude. ran by @myuumei, he/she!! psd used by canarysage

[koebi]

₊˚ ⋅ STARDUST PSD!

download | check pinned post for rules. 𓆝༄

[ffashiion]

‿̩͙𝄞 gingerbread race — psd coloring | click here so very kindly!

↻/interact and credit to use、id/f/o/kin tags ok ( rather not have any familial f/o tags )、day 1 of genshin xmas psd’s | give me character suggestions、do not mix/claim as your own. self indulgent

boost/taglist: dm to be removed or added! @rwbylove @bandagewastern @eyelessraven @taintedsong @dearestluka @ruitime @bunayasu @nyotsuba @cyupidkisswr @jeevas-chr @haresarerad67 + anyone else!

[impatiently]

RED VELVET — A CUTIEFUL PSD that sports BEAUTIFUL pinks, browns, and YELLOWS. SHOULD BE DARKSKIN FRIENDLY AS WELL! RB2USE—Credits appreciated but not exactly required. Adjusting OK! Don’t adjust it until it’s unrecognizable.

[colordrown]

Fire Sleeps in Water. ☆ credit to use. read my terms.

[myuumei]

merry holidays… i will get back to posting…. soon! when im not working and in everything ever. anyways. send me nice messages to my tree!!

[nyotsuba]

psd collab with the wonderful @burgerwebp !!! credit solar too when using.

if you agree to my tos, download here.

♡ && ↺ to use. pngs by vera printing/photocopy on telegram.

taglist: @everlovings @chrysteria @imbermagnvs @ethereabun @abbyslian @rwbylove @biscults @hyarice (ask to be added/removed.)

*under the cut you can find an extra tester showcasing the coloring on several more characters used with additional adjustments, so actual results may vary.

[ungodlylike-deactivated20260304]

SLIGHT DANDELION — psd by ungodlylike! — ★ self-indulgent darkskin-friendly psd ☆ focuses on yellow/gold & blueish-purple. Slight adjustments may be needed — ★ completely free to use, credit is appreciated but not required for this specific psd — ★ notes: I don’t like this psd, I’ve made better, that’s why I’m not requiring credit

boost?: ( sorry if you didn’t want to be tagged, just tagging ppl I tagged in my promo & ppl who reblogged. ask to be removed! ) @blissfulsummer @inoulaced @rwbylove @cuisinekuga @burgerwebp @taintedsong

[voidgasm]

✶ BOTTOM FEEDER. / rp psd, by voidgasm.

poc friendly psd. credit is mandatory. do not claim as your own. do not use this psd to whitewash. like / reblog if using. download psd here / here.

[thatsgonnaleaveatwain]

@llocket & @lavendergalactic’s event day 1: an edit based off your most looped song

This is the version for dark skin! Feel free to adjust it as much as you need.

🍓 ⠄⁺ ₊ Melt bitter by Mark! F2U Here

Character is Minori Hanasato

[naileadevoras]

citrine_oasis.psd

✨ GREETINGS , LUV'D 1S . this week's content is a bright & colourful psd that gives your images a very vibrant and saturated aesthetic . i always make sure that my colourings are poc friendly , so feel free to adjust the layers / opacity to fit your vibe — just don't edit & redistribute or claim as your own . as always , a like + reblog would be greatly appreciated 🌞🍹

click the source link to download this colouring.

[cinnasgfx]

* 20. [ 𝑛𝑜𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎 ] - psd coloring ( paid )

NOCTURNA. A psd coloring focused on purple colors. magenta, pink and dark blue colors get turned into purple, while light blue and green colors get muted. Poc friendly and should be able to work with all, if not, most skintones without any problem. Adjust layers where needed.

credit: credit @cinnasgfx if using this resource

don'ts: don't claim as your own, resell, copy, redistribute, etc.

usage: for personal use only; do not use in commissions

share: reblog this post if sharing, using or saving for future use

price: 2€. ( pay what you want )

☀︎ available on: ko-fi ✩ payhip ✩ da

[blissfulsummer]

How do I make my graduation maps more poc friendly?

tl;dr: you want to be mindful of your shades when making a gradient map.

(on photopea) the left side is what’s replacing the dark colors, while the right side is what’s replacing the light colors. make sure they stay consistent, with dark colors replacing dark colors to avoid skin lightening. if you’re reversing the gradient map, then reverse the direction.

make sure your colors are within reason, either via the map itself, through changing blending modes, or fixing colors in future layers (if salvageable)

or… you could diversify your layers and coloring methods.

essential readings:

colorfloat’s poc friendly psd tutorial

canarysage’s dark skin friendly psd tutorial

canarysage’s blending mode guide

canarysage’s adjustment layers guide

my post on how to see if a coloring’s poc friendly

lumieron’s gradient maps, contract and more

cutesiplushi’s whitewashing. don’t do it.

[colordrown]

A Guide on making POC-Friendly PSDs, from my own experience.

Before we start, I also recommend canarysage's tutorial, it is much helpful and contains lots of insight.

I am not completely experienced and I may make mistakes here, but I encourage you to point them out so I can fix them. Now, let's begin!

I. Important Keywords

※ PSD stands for Photoshop Document. It is a type of file that saves all the layers of what you are working on so you can open it later. In this case, people make a bunch of color filters and save them as a PSD so others can download and use those color filters.

※ POC, People/Person of Color, in this case refers to characters/people that are not completely white and contain at least an ounce of Melanin.

II. Starting

First, let's get a showcase to test our PSD on. I and others commonly use the one below, made by @/amemcth, as it includes characters of various media. You can refer to their post for more versions.

You may also make one of your own, as long as it contains POC. It important to note that you do not use sprite edits.

Testing your progress on swatches is also important. Here's a swatch down below, it's best you keep another one side-by-side above the PSD folder so you can check what your PSD does

III. What is the Problem?

Here, I have put a two PSDs on the showcase. I need you to take a good look at them and point out the difference, and which one isn't POC friendly.

If you haven't figured it out by now, the first one isn't POC-friendly.

Why? The first one lightens the red far too much. An important tip is that you never saturate the red too much, or make it too light. It gets rid of the brown tones of skin.

How do we fix this? Let's make a new Hue/Saturation layer. You will now see 3 sliders on your screen. Get the 'lightness' slider and reduce it until it seems okay.

If your reds are too BRIGHT/saturated, then get the 'saturation' slider and reduce that, too. If your reds are too ASHY/desaturated, (basically looks too grey) than increase the saturation.

This is what I could salvage of the PSD, using our Hue/Saturation layer. You can also use Selective Color, tick the 'absolute' box, select red, and increase the 'black' slider. But it won't fix the saturation, so it's better you either use both Selective Color & Hue/Sat in pairs, or just Hue/Sat.

Now, Let's take a look at another PSD below.

The problem here, obviously, is that it makes skintones green. ANYTHING that makes skintones a color that is NOT red-brown, is not POC friendly.

How do we fix this? It's better you go through your layers and check which one does this, though it's very likely a Hue/Saturation layer. There's two solutions:

Delete that layer

Adjust that layer by the 'hue' slider, increase or decrease the slider until the skintones are red again.

And thus, we have now fixed the problem.

This problem is very common in PSDs, and I want to make something very important clear:

PSDs changing red to pink or purple are also not POC friendly.

And now, our final problem.

The issue here, is that everything's too bright. This is mostly caused by the following layers: Exposure, Brightness/Contrast, Levels & Curves.

To fix this, we find the layer causing this problem and adjust it accordingly. Or, we delete it.

Another solution, is that we get a Hue/Sat layer, set it to red, and tone the lightness down. This is if you really want to keep the brightness of the PSD without it completely butchering skintones. You can also get a Selective Color layer, tick the 'absolute button', select red, and increase the 'black' slider. I recommend you just delete the layer though, personally.

IV. Other Mistakes

※ Excessive Threshold: When you use too much threshold in your PSDs. This is when you set the slider too high and it makes darker skintones completely pitch-black. To fix this, you set the threshold low enough until on the showcase, not a single character's skin is black.

In some cases, you just can't make it POC friendly no matter how hard you try the methods above. That's okay, you just restart the PSD-making process from scratch. Nothing is too much to ensure your PSDs are accessible and POC-friendly.

If you don't want to change your PSD that much, you can always create an optional POC folder inside that contains adjustments to turn it skintone friendly, when toggled on.

Again, please inform me if there were any mistakes made in here. I am open to suggestions and critique as long as it isn't abrupt harassment, and I am open to learning more and improving this guide as best as I can. I honestly get really upset when I see that there are lots of non-POC-friendly PSDs in this community, and figured I'd take action as we as a whole, genuinely need to become more inclusive with our PSDs.

Thank you for reading! I appreciate it a ton!

[canarysage]

general PSA: if your gradient map, psd coloring, ibis paint coloring, et cetera makes dark skin characters blue, or purple, or green, or pink, or white, or yellow, or so on:

That’s Racist!

especially but not limited to if it only does that to dark skin characters. i do not care if you disagree, argue with the wall, good night.

sincerely, a black editor, who is sick of this shit.

[imbermagnvs]

hello! enoch here, your local indigenous editor: redwashing (turning a dark skin character/character of color red) is still bad even if not done to indigenous characters! thank you :-)

[minoricutie]

— future strike (download) ♡

interact && credit for usage. please dont mix or use as a base. adjustments to better suit allowed and encouraged.