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This link ( http://www.kitguitarmanuals.com/ ) showed up recently on another forum and might be of interest. .... a downloadable PDF manual on photographing guitars. (I found online you only could move between pages by R & L clicking, but if you "save as " a normal PDF doc and open with adobe, then it acts like a regular PDF ...ie zoom etc.)

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Dave
Milton, ON

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PMoMC

Yo, Dave,
I was glad to see the link you shared in this thread. I had no trouble scrolling it normally nor zooming it normally via the internet, but I did save it as a PDF nonetheless. Works great that way, too, although upon first opening, my Mac gave me a warning dialog which stated that this file would automatically try to occupy full screen mode (thus messing up my easy zoom/scroll features). Did I want to allow this? I clicked "No" and "Remember this command" and now I am good to go...even if the site ever happens to go down.

One of the pitfalls of being a career creative director is that I have always had the services of professional photographers when working for my clients. I've always known how to set up for the effects I wanted to achieve, but I have never personally owned the equipment to do so. I never needed to have that stuff. This is a real nice tutorial about using basic equipment and once a person has experimented with this set up or one like it, he or she will quickly gain insights into setting up for subtle differences. Thanks for thinking of all of us.
Patrick

Hey Dave, thanks for that.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

No problem downloading and saving as a PDF. Thanks for sharing that - a real useful tutorial.

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Steve Smith
"Music is what feelings sound like"

Thanks for posting this, useful info

Fred

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Fred Tellier
http://www.fetellierguitars.com
Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/FE-Tellier-Guitars/163451547003866

Glad it helped! (...guitarbuilding is easy...photography is hard! )

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Dave
Milton, ON

You could also have a look at this thread over on luthiercom.org

http://www.luthiercom.org/phpBB3/viewto ... f=27&t=875

Registration is required, but it's free and no spam/hassles. Nice group too.

Pat

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formerly known around here as burbank
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http://www.patfosterguitars.com

Another resource:

http://liutaiomottola.com/BunnyBass/intro.htm

Plus, there's lots of other great stuff on the rest of his site.

Pat

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formerly known around here as burbank
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http://www.patfosterguitars.com

Yes thanks you. This is something I really need help with.

Thanks for sharing.

Max

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Max Bishop
Brighton, Michigan