Skin: The Complete Guide to Digitally Lighting, Photographing, and Retouching Faces and Bodies
by: Lee Varis
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Achieving accurate skin tones is one of the most challenging tasks in digital photography. Master this challenge with professional photographer Lee Varis as he covers a range of skin: women and men, young and old, various tones, in-studio and outdoors, tattoos, and more. His step-by-step tutorials and before-and-after illustrations demonstrate various techniques for topics such as digital-specific lighting challenges and what can and cannot be done in post-process.
A free CD-ROM accompanies the book and contains sample image files to use while following the tutorials, plus equipment recommendations and technical reference materials that enhance and reinforce the instruction.
Order your copy of this practical guide today and get a complete start-to-finish approach to integrating everything from posing models to shooting and retouching candid scenes.
Achieving accurate skin tones is one of the most challenging tasks in digital photography. Master this challenge with professional photographer Lee Varis as he covers a range of skin: women and men, young and old, various tones, in-studio and outdoors, tattoos, and more. His step-by-step tutorials and before-and-after illustrations demonstrate various techniques for topics such as digital-specific lighting challenges and what can and cannot be done in post-process.
A free CD-ROM accompanies the book and contains sample image files to use while following the tutorials, plus equipment recommendations and technical reference materials that enhance and reinforce the instruction.
Order your copy of this practical guide today and get a complete start-to-finish approach to integrating everything from posing models to shooting and retouching candid scenes.
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Customer Reviews
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- Heavy-handed Retouching Techniques
Introductory chapters cover topics discussed ad nauseam and better in other digital imaging texts, while the retouching techniques are so heavy-handed as to be ludicrous--in one example, a battery of retouching and smudging operations make a man's face look as if his skin has melted!
Rating: - technical over-kill?
This approach seems to be too technical, too scientific. I think you can just use your eyes to tell good color balance, because it's an esthetic thing anyway. For example, Joe McNally takes liberties with lighting his models by putting down gold reflector cloth and flashing with tungsten conversion filters on. Is this realistic skin tones? No. Does it work esthetically? You bet. Just use your eyes and esthetic sense - you'll be way ahead rather than get into your head too much over calibration, etc. ... Read More
Rating: 
- Heavy Stuff
This a serious work on color, posing, and lighting. it is not for the faint of heart. If you are willing to put in the time, it will be well worth it.
Rating: 
- Some pretty bad advice
This book has a chapter in which it details some good benchmarks for skin tones. (Not to match, but as a general idea.) These are numbers any professional retoucher would know off the top of their head, and he's in the ballpark. However, this was about the only useful aspect of the book. A much better discussion about numbers for skin tones, as well as basically everything else can be found in "Professional Photoshop: The Classic Guide to Color Correction" by Dan Margulis, which I, and every other professional ... Read More
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- Not as described
The book I ordered was listed as "new" on amazon.com, but when it arrived it had a crease on the front cover, similare to if the cover had been dog-eared.I kept the book because, after a string of bad experiences just like this one, I was sick of mailing things back, not being refunded the shipping cost, and essentially wasting money.Their shipping time was very quick, so that is a plus, but ultimatley, the book was not in the condition it was described as.
- Heavy-handed Retouching TechniquesIntroductory chapters cover topics discussed ad nauseam and better in other digital imaging texts, while the retouching techniques are so heavy-handed as to be ludicrous--in one example, a battery of retouching and smudging operations make a man's face look as if his skin has melted!
- technical over-kill?This approach seems to be too technical, too scientific. I think you can just use your eyes to tell good color balance, because it's an esthetic thing anyway. For example, Joe McNally takes liberties with lighting his models by putting down gold reflector cloth and flashing with tungsten conversion filters on. Is this realistic skin tones? No. Does it work esthetically? You bet. Just use your eyes and esthetic sense - you'll be way ahead rather than get into your head too much over calibration, etc. ... Read More
- Heavy StuffThis a serious work on color, posing, and lighting. it is not for the faint of heart. If you are willing to put in the time, it will be well worth it.
- Some pretty bad adviceThis book has a chapter in which it details some good benchmarks for skin tones. (Not to match, but as a general idea.) These are numbers any professional retoucher would know off the top of their head, and he's in the ballpark. However, this was about the only useful aspect of the book. A much better discussion about numbers for skin tones, as well as basically everything else can be found in "Professional Photoshop: The Classic Guide to Color Correction" by Dan Margulis, which I, and every other professional ... Read More
- Not as describedThe book I ordered was listed as "new" on amazon.com, but when it arrived it had a crease on the front cover, similare to if the cover had been dog-eared.I kept the book because, after a string of bad experiences just like this one, I was sick of mailing things back, not being refunded the shipping cost, and essentially wasting money.Their shipping time was very quick, so that is a plus, but ultimatley, the book was not in the condition it was described as.
