Chapter XIII: Conclusion: The technical difficulties of making a good transfer are

not small, and to overcome them requires a certain degree of skill in the worker, which other processes do not require to an equal degree. By “workers” I mean especially amateurs, not those professionally skilled in the graphic arts. After overcoming these difficulties, caused chiefly by the materials, there is a certain feeling of satisfaction in having actually produced a work of art. By using the different techniques of bromoil printing: soft ink, hard ink, sketch, and coarse grain, one can obtain transfers of such beauty as may confidently be said can be attained by no other process. There is unlimited possibility of variation; and this alone assures the bromoil transfer process preëminence over any other method of printing.

That a transfer can be used as a basis for working up with pastel and water-color need only be incidentally mentioned, because such work is outside of pure photography and it is unnecessary to express an opinion as to the artistic value of such productions in this place. The photographer should always adhere to the fundamental law: Do not forsake photographic methods.