Graphics Programs Reference
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CHAPTER 14
THE LAYOUT
Man, I just love it when you go searching for
a song or movie title with the word “layout”
in it, and the first album that pops up is “The
Layout” by Frankie Jones. That's a lot better
luck than I had when I searched for the chap-
ter on Rendering Intents (ya know, if I actually
had a chapter on that, and if I did, it would be
an incredibly short chapter. About a page or
two, and that's if I used a lot of big words, like
Rendering and Intents). Anyway, this chapter
is new to this book, but some of these layouts
were in the Lightroom 3 version, buried in the
Print chapter. I think that was a mistake. Mind
you, I'm not saying I made this mistake. I learned
long ago that, to be a successful author, a par-
ticular skill you need to master is the immediate
and indiscriminate assigning of blame to your
editor for anything that isn't 100% absolutely
perfect. One reason this works so consistently,
for authors across all genres of books, is that
editors say so many messed up things during the
course of producing a book that they honestly
have no idea what they really said or when they
said it. I talked to my editor Ted Waitt about
this, and he admitted what I had always suspect-
ed, which is that many editors today are hooked
on steroids (that explains why Ted is so freak-
ishly muscular). Anyway, most photographers
today don't actually make prints—their images
go straight to the web (for the most part), so
a lot of readers had no idea I put all these cool
layouts in the book that work perfectly for the
web, too (I use these on my blog, on Google+,
in photo galleries, and at steroid conventions),
so by putting these in their own separate chap-
ter (along with 24 bad @$! Lightroom presets
created by Lightroom guru Matt Kloskowski),
it distracts Olympic officials from administering
their monthly mandatory drug tests for book
editors. Well, at least that's what I've been told.
