Graphics Programs Reference
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CHAPTER 15
my step-by-step process from the shoot to the final print
If you've come to this chapter, you've either
already invested a lot of time and energy in
learning these techniques, or you just bought
the book, and flipped right to this chapter, in
which case you're one of those rabble-rousers
who flaunt the time-honored tradition of
book reading (where you start at Chapter 1
and work your way tirelessly through the
book), and instead just jump to where the
“good stuff ” is hidden in the back. I'm going
to assume you're not that person. Instead, I'll
pretend you worked hard to get here, and
therefore deserve a treat (Who's a good boy?
Who's a good boy?). Thus far, the book has
been one chapter on this topic, and another
on that—one on importing, and another on
editing; one on organizing, and another on
printing. But I thought it would be helpful for
you to see it all come together—to see the
entire process from beginning to end—and
I thought I would even include the details of
the photo shoot. Why? Because it takes up
more pages, and publishers love that, because
they think what readers want is more pages.
In fact, if you tell them, “I'm going to add a
page with just random words,” they get abso-
lutely giddy. If you tell them you're including a
few pages that say “This page intentionally left
blank,” they black out for a few moments, and
have to be revived with smelling salts—this is
the Holy Grail of book publishing. Now, I have
no idea if, when this book was printed, they
added some blank pages, but I can tell you
this: if they did, they added page numbers to
them, then ran around their offices high-fiving
everybody in sight. Welcome to their world.
