I love the book Skin, by Lee Varis

BaldyBaldy Registered Users, Super Moderators Posts: 2,853 moderator
edited June 30, 2007 in Finishing School
I've seen some great comments from Dogwood and others about Lee Varis's book, Skin. It has a technique for fixing red, blotchy skin—which is way too common in digital photography—that has revolutionized the way we correct photos at SmugMug when we have to do it by hand.

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We wrote a tutorial about it for our customers. Lee Varis for president. :bow:bow:bow

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  • BinaryFxBinaryFx Registered Users Posts: 707 Major grins
    edited June 21, 2007
  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited June 21, 2007
    Baldy wrote:
    I've seen some great comments from Dogwood and others about Lee Varis's book, Skin. It has a technique for fixing red, blotchy skin—which is way too common in digital photography—that has revolutionized the way we correct photos at SmugMug when we have to do it by hand.

    We wrote a tutorial about it for our customers. Lee Varis for president. bowdown.gifbowbowdown.gif

    Excellent Mr Baldy clap.gif thank you for taking the time to get the post together ...... man I love this forum and people's willingness to share their knowledge thumb.gif .... Skippy
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  • BaldyBaldy Registered Users, Super Moderators Posts: 2,853 moderator
    edited June 22, 2007
    BinaryFx wrote:
    Baldy, Lee is a member of the Dan Margulis list and also has a couple of good tutorials on his website (among others).

    http://www.varis.com/ColorTheorySuccess/index.htm
    http://www.varis.com/ColorTheorySuccess2/index.htm


    Regards,

    Stephen Marsh
    http://members.ozemail.com.au/~binaryfx/
    Yeah, I linked to his site and a tutorial on the red blotch issue from our help section on SmugMug. He just sent me a new expanded tutorial in PDF form that I'll make available.
  • dogwooddogwood Registered Users Posts: 2,572 Major grins
    edited June 22, 2007
    Yeah, it's a fantastic book. I created an action for his skin smoothing method on page 204 and it's become my #1 skin smoothing method. The extra touch of "emboss" for texture is the icing on the cake.

    The great thing is the book is about so much more than skin-- there is loads of good stuff on lighting too.

    That book inspired me to try out a water type photo like Varis does on page 102-- but my results-- well-- they kind of suck. Probably would help if I had a pool deeper than a kiddie pool! :D See for yourself:
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  • mwgricemwgrice Registered Users Posts: 383 Major grins
    edited June 24, 2007
    Does he cover what to do with reptilian green skin? I get that with so many of my subjects.:D

    Ahem. This looks very interesting--my skin does that (nuclear, not reptilian green) on those rare occasions when I do a self-portrait.
  • MartynMartyn Registered Users Posts: 112 Major grins
    edited June 30, 2007
    Although the book is very good, and I now use Lee's techniques, I do wish I bought it before the Margulis ones (and the Light Science & Magic one). After the hard work I put in to understanding (and remembering) Dan's techniques I felt a little disappointed with the Skin book, it seemed a little too tame. When I first picked it up I thought I was in for another marathon task of reading and re-reading which I perversly got excited about. This turned out not to be the case. The book was easy to read, easy to understand and worth every penny.

    Martyn
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