{"id":8718,"date":"2016-07-10T10:51:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T10:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8718"},"modified":"2023-07-02T14:14:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T14:14:13","slug":"sky-rocket-editing-lightroom-grad-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/sky-rocket-editing-lightroom-grad-tool\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Sky-Rocket Your Editing With LIGHTROOM GRAD Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Want great results\u00a0FAST?<\/h2>\n<h2>Need to prep some preview images but don&#8217;t have time to go to town?<\/h2>\n<p>With most landscape photos, you&#8217;ve got the sky and the foreground &#8211; and other great elements like foreground interest boulders, trees, water&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So editing that lot individually can take a long time.<\/p>\n<p>How about splitting your shot into 2 areas :-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Sky<\/li>\n<li>The Foreground<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you could quickly make an amazing sky, then use the same technique to edit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/creating-depth-understanding-the-importance-of-foreground-middleground-and-background\/\" target=\"_blank\">foreground<\/a>, would that speed your workflow up? 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