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Workflow
I'm about to let you behind the curtain and into the world
of my own personal workflow. Not my Photoshop workflow,
mind you, but the workflow I use to find the names for
titles of chapter intros (it would be more useful to write a
chapter on my Photoshop CS6 workflow, though. Maybe
I'll do that after this page). Anyway, this has been a highly
guarded, super-secretive process, shrouded in mystery and
ensconced in velvet, but today, for you, I'm revealing it for
the first time ever. So, here's what I do: First, I choose which
word I want to search for (so, for a chapter on color correc-
tion, I can search for either color or correction), then I type
my first choice into Apple's iTunes Store, because it shows
movies, TV shows, and music. For the word “color,” you get
about a bazillion matches (especially songs), but depending
on the word you choose, it might not return any results at
all, in which case, I go to IMDb (Internet Movie Database;
www.imdb.com)
and type in the word there. So, for this
chapter, I figured I'd type in the word “work” and I'd get
lots of results (like “Workin' for a Livin'” by Huey Lewis &
The News, for example), but on a lark, I typed in “workflow”
and son-of-a-gun if one result didn't come up: the two-
song album “Workflow” by Ricky Ambilotti. In the world
of psychotic chapter intro writers, this is as good as it gets.
Now, you're probably thinking, “Wow, that's a surprisingly
easy process,” and to some extent it is, but there is some-
thing I didn't tell you that makes this process much, much
harder. I never learned to read. I know that sounds kind of
weird coming from someone who writes topics for a living,
but sadly, it's true. When I was in grade school, I skipped
the reading class, because back then I was much more
interested in hacking into the WOPR using my 300-baud
dial-up modem and playing chess with Dr. Falken.
