Description

In Lightroom Transformations, Martin applies this approach to a broad collection of images, showing you how to turn ordinary-looking photos into hero shots—without using fancy montage techniques or wacky effects. By giving each image his own interpretation and explaining the rationale behind the choices he makes, he shows how you can do the same when processing your photos.

Focusing primarily on techniques using Lightroom and Camera Raw—but also with Photoshop—Martin demonstrates how to manipulate the tones and composition of images to create photographs that correspond to your personal photographic vision. Filled with before-and-after shots with detailed explanations of how to go from an ordinary image to an extraordinary one, the book illustrates what you can achieve using Lightroom or Photoshop as a creative tool to enhance the natural beauty that lies within your images.

• Helps you pre-visualise the end result you would like for your photos, and provides easy-to-follow steps for simple edits to polish almost any image
• Includes tips on shooting technique to improve your images in-camera
• Demonstrates how to recompose existing shots to illustrate how a photograph could have been shot and composed better
• Includes short videos that demonstrate some of the techniques discussed in the book

Features

This new book from Lightroom expert and best-selling author Martin Evening will show students how to apply simple and advanced adjustments in Adobe Lightroom/Camera Raw

    • Teaches how to make regular photos shine and give each one his own personal 'Martin Evening' interpretation, explaining the rationale of why he made the choices he did and how students can do the same when processing their photos.
    • Demonstrates to students how to visualize the result they want and use simple as well as advanced techniques such as stitching to help them create photographs that can convey their vision of how they saw something when they photographed it.
    • Includes tips on shooting technique and also shows how to recompose existing shots to illustrate how a photograph could have been shot and composed better.
    • Focuses on editing in Lightroom/Camera Raw (about 10-20% of the techniques make use of Photoshop as well) to polish almost any image. 

Table of Contents

• 1. What makes a good photo?
• 2. Optimum image quality
• 3. Tone and color corrections
• 4. Dodging and burning
• 5. Recomposing photographs
• 6. Blending multiple images
• 7. Black and white conversions
• 8. Retouching