Scott Kelby's 7-Point System for Lightroom Classic

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• Scott shows you an optional technical that tweaks the RAW image before you actually start the 7-point-system to bring back some of the vibrance, sharpness, contrast, etc., that you would have had you shot in JPEG mode.
• How to apply the Color Profile, then save it as a preset you can apply with one click, or have it automatically applied as you import the images in the Import dialog box.
• Here’s how to set your white balance using three different methods (and then Scott shows you his favorite of the three).
• Scott shows how to incorporate a gray card, along with Auto Sync, to instantly and accurately fix the white balance for a large group of images at once. He also shows how to use a gray card when tethering.
• Here’s the three sliders you need to set your Exposure where you want it, and the trick for having Lightroom automatically expand your tonal range by setting the White and Black points for you.
• These are mostly problems caused by the fact that our sensor isn’t as awesome as our eyes are in capturing the scene in front of of. That’s why we have backlit photos, and clipped highlights and other problems, and this lesson shows how to deal with them.
• This is one of the most critical of the 7-points, and one Scott calls his “Secret Sauce” - there’s more to Contrast than you might thing (there are four different ways to add it), and Scott shows you which ones to use when, and how to use them together.
• You’ll see how being able to selectively brighten and darken parts of your image (basically, dodging and burning) can make a dramatic change in how your image appears as it enables you to “paint with light.”
• Here we cover two tools that work very much like the Adjustment Brush: The Graduated Filter tool (and why it may be better than an actual graduated filter you put on your lens), and one of Scott’s favorite tools — the Radial Gradient, which lets you add a soft spotlight anywhere in your image.
• This is where you learn a three-click process to removing barrel distortion, lens vignetting in the corners, and all sorts of distortion caused by your lenses. This is a more important fix that you might think.
• These are things you would do after the essential edits to finishing off the image. Things like Sharpening; increasing the vibrance of the colors; adding a barely noticeable darkening of the edges all the way around your photos, etc.
• Scott wraps up the class by showing a couple of start to finish projects, taking the images straight from the camera all the way through to the final image.

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