Graphics Programs Reference
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CHAPTER 2
LIBRARY
It's been a tradition in all my books to name
each chapter with either a song title, TV show
title, or movie title. For example, in one of
my books on Photoshop, I have a chapter on
sharp
that people who buy books 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 numb-
ingly 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 15-year-old son would still be giggling.
ening, 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 have a chapter called “Super Size Me”
(from the movie of the same name), about
how to resize your images. But for the previ-
ous editions of this book, I dispensed with
those titles and just gave each chapter a regu-
lar boring ol' name, and now that I'm writing
the Lightroom 4 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
