Excellent and Challenging -- This Could Really Improve Your Photos!

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	• Skin: The Complete Guide to Digitally Lighting, Photographing, and Retouching Faces and Bodies Lee Varis Sybex, 2006 - 432 pages average customer review:based on 53 reviews view larger image
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Excellent and Challenging -- This Could Really Improve Your Photos!

I'm an amateur, but an avid one. Quick conclusion: this is one of the most rewarding books I've read in the past year. As a result of reading this book, my new year's resolution is to be a LOT more careful with lighting, colors, tones and sharpening. We'll see if I follow through!

Suggestion: skim the book first to understand the flow, then go through it again with the sample images (or some of your own) in detail a 2nd time.

Caveats: after you get through the nice section on lighting, this book is very specific to Photoshop CS2. Lots of us are playing with the beta of CS3, so we'll hope there's an update coming soon. (Happy to be a beta tester, Mr. Varis!)

The main audience of the book should be folks who both own CS2, and are willing to invest the time and sweat to improve their images.

Funny story: I was on a Southwest plane this week, and the flight attendant was quite intrigued by the book's cover. She finally worked up the nerve to ask me what it was about, and looked relieved when she found out it was a (very) technical book on image calibration and post-processing.

Regards,

Richard Kaufmann

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Unique

I have quite a few Photoshop/Digital Photography books as I am a commercial photographer. For me to buy another before CS3 comes out the book it would have to be unique. This one is.

For those of us who make our living out of photographing people, getting good skin tone is critical. If you want the only book that addresses this as its main focus, buy this one. If I get two or three new skills out of a Pshop book I consider it a success. This book was full of ideas for not only post processing, but calibration and shooting.

Highly recommended.

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A must-have for people photography

I have just finished my third (I think) reading of Skin and it has been a delight. First because the illustrative pictures and screen shots were large enough for my tired old eyes to see, secondly because now I can throw away all those notes on similar techniques, tricks, and shortcuts that I
have been collecting, and thirdly because of all the new (at least to me) techniques, tricks, and shortcuts that Varis has explained very well.

A most valuable book for anyone engaged in portraiture or other photography of people.

Dick Sallee

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Amazing Book

Not only is this book well written and easy to follow, it will take your photos to the next level. I can not believe how great these techniques are! Great book for the people who are really ready to step up their pictures!

One of the four best Photoshop books I know of

Lee Varis has written a superb treatise - and that's what it is - on "digitally lighting, photographing, and retouching faces and bodies". He joins a short list of Katrin Eismann and Steve Caplain as the best teachers of Photoshop I am aware of.

Eismann has written books on retouching and masking that are absolutely essential. Caplain has written the bible on Photoshop montage. Varis has written the last word on on photographing people in the digital age.

One aside: all three of these authors are to be thanked for not attempting to be comedians along the lines of Scott Kelby, Deke McClelland and Russell Brown. Where this business of Photoshop authors trying to be "funny" started is unknown, but it is a ghastly thing when the author truly isn't funny.

Anyway, Varis covers the waterfront here, when it comes to photographing people. Everything. Color. Lighting. Correction. Retouching. Printing. In all, this book is about making the most of the people you photograph.

Profusely illustrated, Varis takes the reader step-by-step through each and every process.

There are a lot of Photoshop books out there, but few truly great ones. This is one of the few.

Jerry

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