This is what our thumbnails used to look like, until we finally decided to remove the "gift wrapping".

Some of you may well remember these thumbnails!

When we first launched this collection in 2005, we felt we had to obscure the thumbnail images with a heavy watermark in order to discourage visitors from downloading and making use of the images easily.

Thanks to prompting from several customers, we eventually came to the realization that this type of overprotectiveness wasn't necessary, so last year we updated the format of the cart to include typical image thumbnails, similar to what is used on most image shopping carts these days.

This page used to be devoted to explaining to visitors how to use a certain trick in Photoshop to remove the watermark, however that's obviously unnecessary now! So for the time being, this page is just a placeholder until we decide on something useful we can do with it. Stay tuned!

Don't forget, you can always obtain an EPS vector master file, or a high resolution jpeg of any of these images by simply purchasing them through our Secure Online Shopping Cart!  Your support will help us to complete the processing of thousands of fantastic retro images we still have sitting in our archives.

– Retro Bob