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Blurry Old Photo Enhancement

Improve a blurry, low-resolution old photograph with restrained detail recovery and natural sharpening.

PROMPT

Enhance the uploaded blurry, low-resolution old photo. - Reconstruct natural facial detail in the eyes, eyebrows, lips, hair strands, and clothing texture without changing identity. - Reduce blur, noise, compression artifacts, and scan softness. - Improve local contrast and clarity while preserving realistic skin, film grain, and printed-photo texture. - Use [sharpening level: restrained and natural] sharpening with no halos or brittle edges. Keep every person's age, expression, hairstyle, facial proportions, pose, and the original composition exactly the same. Do not beautify, smooth skin, swap faces, or invent unsupported detail.

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Model
GPT-Image-2
Aspect ratio
auto
Resolution
2K
Best for
Old photo restoration and colorization
Prompt structure

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  1. Enhance the uploaded blurry
  2. low-resolution old photo. - Reconstruct natural facial detail in the eyes
  3. eyebrows
  4. lips
  5. hair strands
  6. and clothing texture without changing identity. - Reduce blur
  7. noise
  8. compression artifacts
  9. and scan softness. - Improve local contrast and clarity while preserving realistic skin
  10. film grain
  11. and printed-photo texture. - Use [sharpening level: restrained and natural] sharpening with no halos or brittle edges. Keep every person's age
  12. expression
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