There’s finally a photo filtering app that won’t whitewash people of color
When Alesha Randolph wants to post a selfie on Instagram, she knows there’s only one filter that is flattering to her skin tone: Sierra. Yes, Instagram filters can work against people of color. But Randolph, a senior designer at Vox, and her fellow designers and engineers were tired of accepting it as a given. So they developed Tonr, a photo-editing desktop app built to enhance and affirm nonwhite skin tones.
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@wolvensnothere remember the talk from Vancouver on this sort of thing?
Yes! This is amazing!
If you’re interested in the talk @unknownbinaries means, my breakdown of it is here: http://tinyletter.com/Technoccult/letters/technoccult-news-preying-with-trickster-gods
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