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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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Revised and thoroughly updated, this practical guide to photographing people is better than ever!
What is the color of skin? You may think you know, until you enter the world of digital photography and try to reproduce what you see. Differences in software, lighting, computer calibration—everything has an impact on color. And that’s all before you get into differences between people in terms of skin types, ethnicities, age, gender, and more! Hollywood–based photo–illustrator Lee Varis guides you step–by–step through the maze.
This new edition covers the very newest trends and techniques in photographing, lighting, and editing skin—and offers plenty of tips, examples, and valuable advice from the author’s own professional experience in the field.
- Shows you how to digitally capture all skin types: male, female, young, old, different skin tones and ethnicities, with makeup or without, wrinkled, tattooed, and more
- Covers a wealth of topics in addition to photo editing, such as how to obtain model releases and compose shots, how to shoot groups, and how to create promotional headshots
- Incorporates the latest on working with Photoshop and Lightroom
- Showcases exceptional work from a variety of photographers and artists
If you′re photographing people, you’ll want this valuable and unique guide on your shelf.
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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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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 on 17 Mar 2008 by Andrew Beach
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?
Published on 16 Feb 2008 by C. Duffin
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