The invention relates to a method for operating a full-body image capturing and image processing system (02),comprising at least the method steps of:capturing digital images (B1-B12) of a body to be examined；creating at least one combined image (B14, B58) from at least two different images (B1-B4, B5-B8)；identifying skin surface (I) of the body to be examined in the images and/or combined images；identifying predefined segments of the identified skin surface (H) in the images and/or combined images；identifying skin regions that show reddening or scabbing in the images and/or combined images；calculating the proportional area of the identified skin region per segment；determining a degree of reddening of the skin surface, the degree of scabbing of the skin surface and a degree of curvature of the skin surface in the identified skin regions per segment；calculating one segment value each；calculating a weighted total value；outputting the total value and/or the segment values.
