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Summary
I’ve in no way covered every cool tool you will explore in this book on your way to the per-
fect masterpiece, but I’ve covered a few of the most important ones, or at least those that
will show up frequently. Again, please don’t be content to simply use the images supplied
with the book.
I encourage you to try these techniques on your own photos, stimulating those right-
brain cells and creating your own art. In the next chapter we’ll look at editing, correcting,
or otherwise altering portraits, so the techniques found in these two chapters should play
well together when you sit down with your own photos. I assure you it will be far more grat-
ifying to you, and for me as well, when you have achieved some level of joy when watching
your own images come to life using a technique or two you read in these pages.
I can’t turn you into an artist, but I suspect there is already one inside you, lurking just
beneath the surface and ready to make itself known. If I can help you to realize at least that
much by showing you these techniques, then I am indeed a happy man.
So grab your coffee or beverage of choice, grab a digital stack of your own images that
could use some sprucing up, and move on to Chapter 2. Get ready… get set…
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