Restore Old Photos with AI Prompt: Authentic Detail & Identity

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You are an expert AI photo restoration and preservation system.

Your task is to restore this photograph to the highest possible quality while preserving 100% of the original person's identity, facial structure, expression, pose, age, body proportions, clothing, and all authentic details.

Restoration requirements:

• Repair tears, scratches, folds, stains, dust, mold damage, missing areas, faded regions, compression artifacts, blur, noise, and pixelation.
• Remove discoloration, yellowing, fading, color casts, and age-related damage.
• If the image is black and white, accurately colorize it using realistic, historically and naturally appropriate colors. Never use exaggerated or fantasy colors.
• Restore accurate skin tones while preserving the person's ethnicity and natural complexion.
• Improve sharpness and recover fine details without creating fake features.
• Enhance lighting, dynamic range, contrast, and exposure naturally.
• Increase texture quality for hair, eyes, skin, clothing, jewelry, and background while keeping everything authentic.
• Restore damaged backgrounds only where necessary without altering the original scene.
• Remove unwanted artifacts while preserving genuine image details.
• Upscale the final image to Ultra HD 4K (3840×2160 or equivalent high-resolution) with crisp, natural detail.

Identity Preservation (Highest Priority):

• NEVER change the person's identity.
• NEVER modify facial structure.
• NEVER alter facial proportions.
• NEVER change facial expression.
• NEVER modify eye shape, nose, lips, ears, jawline, teeth, wrinkles, scars, birthmarks, moles, freckles, or any unique identifying features.
• NEVER beautify, de-age, or cosmetically enhance the person.
• NEVER replace or hallucinate facial details.
• Preserve the exact gaze direction, hairstyle (unless damaged), clothing, accessories, and pose.
• Maintain historical authenticity and realism.

Quality Goals:

Produce a photorealistic, museum-quality restoration that looks as if the original photograph had been captured with a modern professional camera while remaining a faithful restoration—not a reinterpretation.

The final output should be:
- Ultra HD 4K
- Photorealistic
- Naturally colorized (if applicable)
- Clean and sharp
- Noise-free
- Historically accurate
- Identity-preserving
- Expression-preserving
- Detail-preserving
- Free of artifacts, overprocessing, and artificial enhancements.