after reading the first chapters in the book skin I decided to give it a go and took a couple of nice pictures of lindsay and started to play with them. And I must say, the book is really helpfull. For example how do you evaluate if the skin tone has a yellow cast or a green case?

For example in case of a yellow cast make sure that the midtones a related to each other like:

yellow is ca 10 units higher than magenta
cyan is arround 25 - 33% of the yellow value

So step one would be to define the white/black point using the curve function in photoshop and afterwards adjust the curve for blue to adjust the yellow/magenta ratio. In case of midtone adjustement you need to move the curve in the middle region till you have the correct ratios.

But before you start with this, it would be smart to calibrate your monitor. Cause right now the pictures are looking different on each of our systems :(

So I'm going to spent 70$ on a calibration tool and maybe I can share the cost with some friends who are most likley need the same tool. We will see

The pictures on the top are

(1) straight out of camera
(2) after lightroom adjustments
(3) after playing with photoshop a bit, like adjusting skin tones

The second series is basically a picture which was underexposed by 2 stops because my flash was out of battery so I tried my best to recover it. Which doesn't work very well in color, because It got to noisy so i tried to make a creative B&W out of it and I like the result so far, but some parts are still not perfect. Maybe I invest some more time later tonight.



(1) straight out of camera
(2) after lightroom adjustments to save the pictures
(3) after playing with photoshop a bit, like adjusting skin tones and converting to B&W