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Library
It's been a tradition in all my topics to
name each chapter with either a song title,
TV show title, or movie title. For example,
in one of my topics on Photoshop, I had a
chapter on Sharpening, and I called it
“Sharp Dressed Man” (a nod to the 1983 hit
of the same name from the Texas-based
rock band ZZ Top). Under the chapter
name, I would put a subhead that explains
what the chapter is actually about, because
sometimes from the name it wasn't quite
as obvious. For example, in another book, I
had a chapter called “Super Size Me” (from
the movie of the same name), about how
to resize your images. But for the previous
edition of this topic, I dispensed with those
titles and just gave each chapter a regular
boring ol' name, and now that I'm writing
the Lightroom 3 version, I'm kinda wishing
I hadn't done away with it (even though I
guess this way does make it easier). See, I
was thinking that people who buy topics
on Lightroom are photographers, and that
means they're creative people, which to me
means that if I named the chapters after
things that in themselves are creative (like
songs, TV shows, and movies…well…songs
and movies anyway), they'd totally dig it.
Well, as luck would have it, I just checked
on the iTunes Store and there actually is a
song named “Library” by a band called Final
Fantasy from their album
Has a Good Home
.
Anyway, I listened to the song and I have to
say, it was mind numbingly bad—bad on a
level I haven't heard in years, yet the album
has 12 five-star reviews, so either these
people are criminally insane, or they were
basing their review on their general love of
one of Final Fantasy's other songs, titled “He
Poos Clouds.” Man, I wish I could have used
that name for a chapter. My 13-year-old son
would still be giggling.
