Gallery updated with neon tests.sensei wrote:I had a very impressive cel of Kerberos (from Cardcaptor Sakura framed in UV-resistant glass and installed it in my office, where the sun never shines and the rain never falls, but which does have a bank of fluorescent lights. Within six months the line fading was easy to see, compared with the scan I'd done when it had arrived. So I took it down, removed the cel from the frame, and returned it to the cel book, where in the past eight years it has not visibly changed further.
This might be an extreme case, as the trace lines changed in a place where the cel paint was a bright orange. I know from further collecting that reds, yellows, oranges, and browns react most strongly with trace lines, and so the light might have speeded up the process rather than causing it. That said, I never again attempted to frame or display a cel in my collection.
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