Skin: The Complete Guide to Digitally Lighting, Photographing, and Retouching Faces and Bodies
What is the color of skin?You may think you know, until you try to reproduce what you see. Differences in software, hardware, lighting, calibration—everything has an impact on color. And that's all before you confront the differences between people: young, old, male, female, different ethnicities, wearing makeup or not, wrinkled or tattooed—even their notions about what looks good!In this new edition of his hot-selling guide, top Hollywood photo-illustrator Lee Varis guides you step by step through the maze. Find out how he lights, captures, color-corrects, and retouches images of people in all their variety—using the very latest Photoshop and Lightroom tools—and discover his secrets to making people look compelling in their own skin.topics include:Understanding the basics of digital capture and workflowStarting with the right hardware and software settingsDeveloping your digital color "chops"Mastering Rembrandt lighting, natural lighting, and other lighting techniquesOvercoming common digital skin problems, such as too much redComposing shots, posing models, and taking formal portraits or candid shotsTrimming the fat, lighting up the eyes, and filling in wrinklesUsing new blur filters, creating a grunge look, and adding dazzling effectsSharpening, soft proofing, and simulating, so you can print with successDiscovering what can and what can't be done in post-processLearn new camera calibration techniquesUnderstand lighting for many different effectsDiscover color-correction techniques for every type of skinLearn new special effects like HDR Toning in Photoshop CS5