Old Pears' Soap advert from 1884, before the dawn of advertising standards. History of advertising, old hygiene product adverts, soap ads.
Believed to be out of copyright but if you wish to use for some commercial / advertising purpose then you should do due diligence and research the brand image & possible date of artists death. - I think this pic is probably best viewed as to be used in an intermediate process rather than as presented, though could be. Let me explain my - Original pages are unevenly foxed (yellowed stained) and so have had colour channels desaturated, and the levels pushed to get a semblance of lightness, but patina/texture of paper pulp grains are just visible in off-white areas, and there may be faintest traces of print-through. However, the ugliest of stains & foxing are removed, but stray ink dots may exist. I have left the 'column rulers' in place to provide physical context if this image was being used as a historical newsprint example, but you can remove the rulers or rearrange in a more suitable format. I have cleared the gutters beyond the rulers of stray bits of lettering which came into view and distracted from the core subject - the advert, - This provides 3 user options: - (1) Use image with a yellow-orange tint to make a more controlled 'faux' old page, using levels to introduce more of behind the scenes print-through if desired. (Option 2) Flood fill outer area with 100% white, but keep pulp patina in the blank area to give separation from pure white outer area. (Option 3) Turn into a full 2-colour HC B&W stencil-like image tweaking white/black threshold levels.
Size: 7568px × 5131px
Location: uk
Photo credit: © Marcus Harrison - adverts / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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