Vintage Photo Restoration Portrait That Keeps Its Original Character
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Vintage Photo Restoration Portrait That Keeps Its Original Character

Restore scratches, fading, stains, and blur in the user-uploaded vintage photo, while preserving the person's identity, pose, composition, and historical texture as much as possible.

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Prompt

UPLOAD A REFERENCE IMAGE BEFORE GENERATING.

MAIN PROMPT
Ultra-realistic restoration and recreation of the uploaded vintage photograph. Preserve the exact same person and original facial identity with 99% likeness. Restore the image into a clean, sharp, high-quality modern digital portrait while keeping the original emotional character authentic and historically respectful.

FORMAT LOCK
Vertical 3:4. Preserve the original camera angle, pose, body proportions, framing, facial expression, hairstyle, and subject placement.

STYLE TRANSFER
Preserve facial structure, eyes, eyebrows, nose, lips, jawline, age, skin tone, hairstyle, and identity exactly. Repair scratches, dust, stains, fading, blur, discoloration, noise, creases, and damaged areas without redesigning or beautifying the person.

DETAIL & COLOR
Natural modern color restoration, realistic skin texture, fine facial detail, balanced contrast, subtle tonal depth, soft natural lighting, authentic fabric texture, believable photographic detail. Preserve the original outfit style while allowing a refined, clean modern finish to clothing and background.

COMPOSITION LOCK
Keep the original composition, pose, expression, proportions, perspective, and emotional character. Upgrade only damaged or degraded visual elements. All restored details must remain believable and consistent with the original photograph.

STYLE
Ultra-realistic professional photo restoration, authentic photographic texture, natural color grading, refined modern digital clarity, high resolution, cinematic yet realistic lighting.

NEGATIVE PROMPT
Identity drift, altered facial structure, different person, beautification, face redesign, younger/older appearance, changed expression, distorted eyes, altered nose or lips, artificial skin, plastic skin, excessive smoothing, oversharpening, exaggerated colors, unrealistic clothing, unrealistic background, CGI look, painterly effect, cartoon, anatomy errors, facial distortion, loss of historical character.

ASPECT RATIO: 3:4

How to use

Usage tip: First upload the old photo you want to restore, then use this prompt with an image-editing model. After generation, check whether the person's identity, facial details, and original composition have been changed.

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