Restore, colorize, or enhance an old photo
Repairs damage, sharpens, and colorizes old or low-quality photos while keeping them authentic.
The prompt
Ultra-detailed restoration and sharpness enhancement of a vintage photo. Recover fine details and improve clarity, especially on faces. Remove all scratches, dust, stains, tears. Preserve natural film grain. Correct geometry and tonal range.
Then, colorize it to look like a historical color photograph: natural, muted, historically accurate colors. Avoid plastic skin, oversaturation, digital painting look, and oversharpening artifacts. Museum-quality realism.
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the Zero-Shot structure (Zero-shot prompting). A zero-shot prompt gives the model a direct instruction with no examples. It is the simplest form, and it works best when the task is common and clearly worded.
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