Clean scratches from my scanned photo without changing the faces
Restore a separate copy of this scanned photo. Reduce visible dust and surface scratches, gently improve faded contrast and retain natural texture. Preserve each person's facial features, age, expression, pose, hands, clothing, background and framing. Do not beautify, smooth skin, add people or invent missing detail. Keep the original untouched. If damage hides a feature, leave it uncertain rather than claim to recover it.
Make it yours: Use your own scan or one you are authorised to edit; keep the physical print and original file.
A useful follow-up
The face looks different. Return to the original scan and clean only the background damage.
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Make an old photo look like a natural iPhone photo
Create a separate modern-looking interpretation of this old photo, as if the same moment were photographed with a modern iPhone in natural daylight. Use balanced colour and gentle contrast, not beauty filters, artificial background blur or extreme sharpening. Preserve faces, apparent ages, expressions, poses, clothes and setting as closely as possible. Do not add modern objects. Treat uncertain colours and reconstructed detail as interpretation, not historical fact. Do not overwrite the original.
Make it yours: Choose this for a creative keepsake, not a faithful archival restoration; inspect faces carefully.
A useful follow-up
The edit looks too polished. Reduce saturation and sharpening while retaining the original facial character.
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Keep my grandparents' black-and-white photo black and white
Clean a copy of this black-and-white scan. Reduce dust and obvious scratches while retaining grain and tonal character. Keep the image monochrome and preserve faces, hair, clothing, shadows and background. Do not colourise, change apparent ages or invent sharp detail in blurred areas. Leave the original border unless I ask to crop it.
Make it yours: Specify that the film look is part of the memory, not a defect to remove.
A useful follow-up
The skin looks waxy. Reduce smoothing and restore a natural textured appearance.
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Try colour on an old black-and-white photo without calling it authentic
Make a clearly labelled colour interpretation of this black-and-white photo. Known colours are [confirmed details]; other colours are unknown. Preserve faces, poses, garments and setting. Use restrained plausible colours, but do not claim to know original eye, hair, clothing or paint colours. Do not remove or replace the monochrome original. List assumptions separately for my review.
Make it yours: An attractive colour version is not evidence of the original colours.
A useful follow-up
Use this confirmed colour reference for [item] and leave the other choices unchanged.
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Reduce the yellow cast without changing the whole photo
Edit a copy of this scanned print to gently reduce the yellow cast. Preserve faces, clothing, background, grain and composition. Use [known neutral reference] if supplied, but do not assume an aged paper border was pure white. Avoid turning skin grey or inventing vivid colours. Return a restrained version for comparison with the original.
Make it yours: If no reliable colour reference exists, treat colour correction as a visual judgement.
A useful follow-up
The skin now looks cold. Make a smaller correction from the original scan.
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Can I improve this blurry photo without inventing a new face?
Assess this authorised photo for a cautious cleanup. Explain which blur or damage is visible and what cannot be determined. If editing is available, make a separate version with only gentle contrast and noise adjustments; do not invent eyelashes, teeth, writing or facial features to make it look sharp. Do not promise recovery of detail absent from the file.
Make it yours: A clearer-looking face can be a new AI interpretation; compare identity with trusted originals.
A useful follow-up
Mark which areas should stay soft rather than be reconstructed.
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Prepare my restored photo for a family album
Help prepare this restored copy for a [print dimensions] family album. The actual file is [pixel dimensions] and the printer asks for [requirements]. Explain crop choices without cutting off people, whether the supplied pixels meet the stated requirement and what needs a print proof. Do not claim that a larger file contains newly recovered detail. Keep an uncropped original and label this as an edited version.
Make it yours: Check print colour and sharpness with the printer; an on-screen preview is not a print proof.
A useful follow-up
Show a no-crop option with borders rather than stretching the photo.
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Compare the restored photo with the original before I share it
Compare image 1, my original scan, with image 2, the edited copy. Check faces, apparent ages, expressions, hands, clothing patterns, background objects, framing and colour changes. List visible differences without treating invented detail as recovered fact. Distinguish intended cleanup from changes that could misrepresent the people or scene. Do not identify unknown people or infer private traits.
Make it yours: Ask a family member who knows the people to review identity; keep the original available.
A useful follow-up
Draft a short album caption saying this is an AI-edited copy and noting any creative colour interpretation.