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English: Émile Bertrand's poster for Jules Massenet's Cendrillon, advertising the première performance at the Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique, Paris.
This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: Dust, splotches, rips, hairs, and the larger bubbles in the ink dealt with. Levels adjusted against the colour blocks, and have pretty much stayed there in the final version. Probably as accurate as you can get something with as much metallic ink as you have in this image. Some sharpening applied; one bit of faded ink (the text just below the image) got a small amount of extra darkening. Borders, outside the printed area, were cleaned up extensively, although I don't like doing too many gradient tweaks on an image like this - by necessity, you have to change bits somewhat away from the borders as well, or they won't blend in - so there's some variation left. Think that covers most of it.
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Think I went a touch heavy on the desaturation (usually necessary after a levels adjustment, but can go too far). Went back to the last file before final tweaks.