Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Customizing
A great name for this chapter would have been
“Pimp My Ride” (after the popular MTV show
of the same name), seeing as this chapter is
all about customizing Lightroom 3 to your
own personal tastes. Kids these days call this
“pimping” (by the way, I just checked with
a nearby kid to confirm this and apparently
that is correct. I said, “Hey, what does it
mean if something is pimped?” and he said,
“It means it's been customized.” But then
I called my older brother Jeff, who had spent
a number of years in the U.S. Navy, and asked
him what it means if something is pimped
and, surprisingly enough, he had an entirely
different answer, but I'm not so sure our
mom would be pleased with him for telling
this to his impressionable younger brother).
So, at this point, I wasn't sure if using the
word “pimped” would be really appropriate,
so I did a Google search for the word “pimped”
and it returned (I'm not making this up) more
than 2,700,000 pages that reference the word
“pimped.” I thought I would go ahead and
randomly click on one of those search result
links, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that
it took me to a page of totally customized cars.
So, at that point, I felt pretty safe, but I realized
that using the term “pimped” was kind of kind
of “past tense,” so I removed the “ed” and got
a totally different result, which led me to a
webpage with a “Pimp Name Generator” and,
of course, I couldn't leave without finding out
what my pimp name would be (just in case
I ever wrote a book about customizing cars
or my brother's life), and it turned out to be
“Golden Brown Scott Slither” (though per-
sonally I was hoping for something more like
“Snoop Scotty Scott”).
