Front cover image for 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

Lee Varis
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
Print Book, English, 2006
Sybex/Wiley, Indianapolis, Ind., 2006
manuals (instructional materials)
xxi, 404 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.).
9780470047330, 047004733X
74273196
Digital imaging basics
Color management, workflow, and calibration
Lighting and photographing people
The color of skin
Tone and contrast: color and B+W
Retouching
Special effects
Preparing for print
Parting shots
Includes index
CD includes tutorials with before-and-after sample image files and technical reference materials--Cover p. [4]