Comments on: Going Bold: Your Input Makes a Difference

By: Louis

Louis — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:06:25 +0000

Hi Scott,

Can’t get enough of your stuff or Matt Klowkoski. Just great stuff, either in books or videos. Just bought your latest LT2 book and Digital Photography 2 book. How come you we never have to chance to host your Photoshop (or Lightroom) tour in Canada (or Montreal for that matter) ?

By: Dave L

Dave L — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:12:08 +0000

Spiral binding would be ideal for me- no more trying to keep a book open on a page when you are following instructions

As an aside, if you do a cardboard sleeve/cover or some such thing to show the spine that the spiral bound book fits into/is covered with, then why not print the tear out cards on that? Best of both worlds.

By: David Leatherwood

David Leatherwood — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:19:32 +0000

Not my idea but, it rocks! Go to the pixsylated.com web site to see how he “pimped” Joe McNally’s “The Moment it Clicks” book. I did it to Joe’s book and Scott’s Lightroom 2 book. Makes the book a very good reference book that you don’t slowly destroy by bending, folding, taking notes on, spilling coffee on, etc. The laminated pages and cover just add to the spiral binderidea by making the book that much more durable.

David Leatherwood

By: Sean McCormack

Sean McCormack — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:09:51 +0000

Donna up top has a very valid point, and it’s not just true for cookbooks. There are plenty of spiral bound books with printed spines. Most useful.

Personally I’ve even printed and spiral bound PDF manuals, such as the Lightroom SDK. Much more useful than on the computer.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:55:47 +0000

Are you going to finally do the Photoshop CS4 Down & Dirty Tricks book this time around? It’s been a very long time since the last edition.

By: T Giibson

T Giibson — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:49:31 +0000

keyboard shortcut tear-out…. just a thought but why not make a reference in the book on where to download it from. Just like the extra chapters and photo downloads you provided for The Adobe Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers. This will keep publishing costs down and folks who do not mind printing on plain paper or want thicker stock can print out their own preference. It would also save those of us who spill the morning coffee across the papers on our desk. lol … Whatever you decide I’m sure it will be great and well thoughout, cause your just such a thoughtful guy Scott.

All the best

By: John

John — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:02:23 +0000

I found a copy of the shortcuts somewhere on the internet, I printed them out 8X10 on photo paper. walla instant stand up short cuts guide.

By: Boone

Boone — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:23:42 +0000

Another option on the spine is one used for some programming reference books. The back cover and the hard spine cover isn’t glued to the spine of the individual pages, allowing the book to lay flat when open. Spiral would be the supreme option, but this works well for a table-top reference guide. These images are taken of the first edition of “Perl in a Nutshell” published by O’Reilly.

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By: Dr. Roy L. Rasmussen

Dr. Roy L. Rasmussen — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:32:26 +0000

I like the cpiral binding idea. I alway;s do this with ‘e-books’. It is cheap to do and effective. Whne your publisher prints your books, if you were to leave more white space on the left side of the page, it would be no problem for ’staples’ or other, to slice of a quarter inch of the book and then “spiral bind the printed book. Here in Canada it would cost less than $5.00 . Then anyone who wants a spiral bound boo;k could do it very simply indeed.
Even though I am 84 years old I enjoy your books and your blog and CS3, and so on. Cheers.. Roy.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:11:58 +0000

I’ll vote for a covered spiral binding!!! best of both worlds!

By: Jeff Borden

Jeff Borden — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:42:28 +0000

“Tear out Card” GREAT idea! I had to laugh when I read that because I am in the middle of making my own as I read the book. Do it Scott!

By: Jim Helwig

Jim Helwig — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:18:29 +0000

Sorry, my fingers stuttered.
I meant “redo/revise your” not “redo your redo/revise your”.
I must be about quart low on the caffine.
Thanks for being such a great teacher and photographer.