Adobe's latest Lightroom presets are optimized for dark skin, but can they correct photography's historic ethnic biases?
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Like "neutral" algorithms programmed by white computer programmers, photography has long favored white skin over black. In 2020, Twitter's auto-crop tool was stuck ignoring non-white faces, but it goes back much further than that.
The photographic film itself was optimized for pale skin tones. Digital cameras are much better, but a lot of that can be attributed to how they work rather than an attempt to capture dark skin better. So why has it taken so long to correctly register non-white faces in photographs?
"Probably, in the days of film, it was very different, and shooting dark and light skin tones was a big difference. But these days, the perception that there's a big difference just isn't there anymore," headshot photographer Rafael Larin told Lifewire via E-mail.
