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Skin: The Complete Guide to Digitally Lighting, Photographing, and Retouching Faces and Bodies
 
 

Skin: The Complete Guide to Digitally Lighting, Photographing, and Retouching Faces and Bodies (Paperback)

by Lee Varis (Author)
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A Hollywood photoillustrator with 30 years of experience, Varis has been published in "National Geographic," "Newsweek," and "Fortune" magazines. Far from a manual on fashion or nude photography, this is a comprehensive tutorial on how to photograph all types of people: young, old, and dozens of ethnic varieties. Varis supplements the book with a CD of numerous before-and-after sample image files and technical reference materials. He begins with a discussion of the right hardware and software and how to configure them, then teaches digital color management and lighting techniques as they apply to portraiture. He also provides in-depth chapters on retouching and special effects, including such techniques as skin smoothing, beauty retouching, screen diffusion, and depth of field effects. Highly recommended for serious students. ("Library Journal," March 15, 2007)

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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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Simply amazing, 12 May 2007
By A. Papushoy (England, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is a book that unveils a lot of the secrets of professional photography retouching with a strong focus on Photoshop. Also includes various studio lighting set-ups and tips. It also shows you how to do that realistic yet strong retouching of skin that you always wanted to know how to do. Recommended for anyone who does post-processing in Photoshop and would like to make the best use of it.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Missing The Point, 22 Nov 2008
By D. Harty (Coventry, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is really a book that tries to be a digital photography book, and then a photoshop book, and finally adds a few comments about skin. I wanted to know about skin tones in RGB, CMYK and Lab colour. I wanted to know about skin tones for different races. I wanted to know how photoshop plugins like Imagenomic Portraiture actually work. I wanted to know all the stuff I know that I don't know about skin tones. This book could have been all those things, but isn't. I learned much, much more about it all in the "Canyon Conundrum" book - this book gave me very little considering how many pages of it there are.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Ultimate skin, 17 Nov 2007
By R. Benson (South West UK) - See all my reviews
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Let's face it taking a good photograph is now only part of the story, to make a great image now requires a good grasp of retouching techniques. Skin is an incredible book full of sensible advice & professional techniques on making great images from your photographs. If you take portrait/people shots regularly, and retouch them this book is a good investment.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Overcomplicated post-processing
Having read quite a few books and articles on how to improve the appearance of skin, this book describes some new approaches that work well, but equally describes some very... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Andrew Beach

1.0 out of 5 stars Overkill
Too much photoshop and not enough technique. Is it not better to get the shot right in camera and not need to over process the shot. Why make a silk purse out of a sows ear?
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