A Spanking That Wasn't

I'm always on the lookout for new post ideas. Just when I think I have written everything there is to say about consensual adult spankings, along comes inspiration in the form of a curious reader named Caleb.

Here's Caleb's question:

I have recently taken to photoshopping spanking pics. That is to say I have been trying to take pics of women in bikinis or thongs or whatever, and make it look like they have been spanked when they really haven't. To be honest, I am not that impressed with my own work so far lol. Could you ask your fanbase if anyone knows how to photoshop a woman to the point where it looks like she's been spanked realistically?

I love a challenge. As I told Caleb, I have no need for pictures of simulated spankings. We are very fortunate to have the real thing. But this is a legitimate question and I would like to help.

My husband Randy, a red bottom gourmand, was intrigued as well. He sent me a photo of a bared but unspanked woman in a bent over position. He says she looks just like me and I will take his word. Then he found a picture of me in a similar postion immediately following a hard spanking with a solid wooden hairbrush. My mission was to make the former bottom resemble the latter.

I tried a couple of different techniques with mixed results. I learned that a spanked bottom is not uniformly red, nor are the marks symmetrical. The center of each lower bottom cheek is (hopefully) hit harder, more directly, and more frequently than outer areas. The marking reflects this pattern.

Through experimentation, I found a technique that worked pretty well. I placed a series of small, dark red dots in the two spanking zones, denser in the center, more sparse outside. Then I selected each spanking zone and used a blur function that averages colors within a small area. I did this several times before achieving the right color and coverage on each side. I used a few darker dots to add a hint of bruising. I took into account that a right handed spanker, due to leverage and swing radius, will deliver harder swats to the spankee's right cheek. I think the result looks pretty authentic.

Here is my fake. What do you think?