Scott Kelby's Lightroom 7-Point System
Scott Kelby is the world's best-selling author of photographic technique books and the Editor and Publisher of Photoshop User magazine. Scott has written more than 60 books, including How Do I Do That in Lightroom?, How Do I Do That in Photoshop?, The Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers, The Digital Photography Book series, Professional Portrait Retouching Techniques for Photographers, and Light It, Shoot It, Retouch It.
Scott has condensed things down to just the seven major editing moves we need to master in order to enhance our photographs like a pro, so you're not learning Lightroom tools you'll never use. Then, and perhaps most significantly, he established when and how to employ the seven procedures that comprise this tried-and-true "Lightroom 7-Point System."
But the book's magic isn't just a list of the seven tactics and how they operate. It's how they're used together, and the learning experience you go through, that distinguishes this book. This isn't a book to "read about it." This is a "do it yourself" book. Each session begins with a RAW photo straight from the camera (you can download Scott's files to follow along). Then you'll apply the 7-Point System in a very specific way, and you'll do it over and over on a variety of different images, with varied obstacles and scenarios, until these seven points are completely second nature to you. You're going to do the entire edit each time, from beginning to end, leaving nothing out. Once you've mastered this approach, there will be no image on your screen that you can't enhance, fix, edit, and finish like a pro!
You'll be impressed as you go through the book at how well this approach works across such a diverse variety of images, from landscapes to portraits, architectural to sports photography, wedding photos to everything in between. Scott Kelby's Lightroom 7-Point System is divided into 21 short sessions (including two extra lessons in which you work with Lightroom and Photoshop simultaneously), and if you spend only 10 minutes a day doing that day's lesson, there won't be a photo you can't beat in three weeks! You'll know exactly what to do first, what to do next, and in what order to transform a drab, lifeless image into one you'd proudly post on your wall. Best of all, because you'll have to deal with whatever each image throws at you, you'll find extra strategies, shortcuts, and workarounds that will aid you in every element of your editing.
Author: Scott Kelby
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Kelbys-7-Point-System-Lightroom-Classic/dp/1681987279/
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