Old Photo Restoration
Restore faded, scratched, and damaged photos
Old Photo Restoration
Restore faded, scratched, and damaged photos
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Description
Restores old photos to their original look. Use this when the user provides an original image, specifies details to preserve, and needs a comparison between the restored image and key areas. Applies denoising, fading correction, and local damage repair modes, while avoiding turning heavy recomposition into simple restoration.
Recommended by
Dancang
Why we love this skill
Featured because it goes beyond fixing fading, scratches, and damage by verifying facial features, text, and period texture against the original to avoid over-beautification, while providing clear before-and-after comparisons of key areas.
Best for
Users looking to restore old family photos, preserve character features, and review local details.
How to use this Skill
Provide your input
Provide an original old photo and specify the character features, text, or other details that need to be preserved.
Run the Skill
Upon submission, fading, scratches, and local damage are repaired while preserving the original structure and vintage texture.
Review your result
Receive the restored photo along with before-and-after comparison images of key areas, highlighting details that may need manual review.
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Restore clarity to old photos while preserving their original appearance. Upload a scanned or photographed old photo to first identify scratches, blemishes, fading, and blur, followed by conservative enhancement or generative restoration based on available host tools, while checking the number of people, facial features, clothing, composition, and inscriptions. The original tone is retained by default, with a speculative colorized version noted if requested. A diagnosis and complete prompt are provided when editing tools are unavailable. This workflow was adapted by leowang from an MIT project, with the original license included. An actual editing sample is attached where the input is a public-domain historical portrait with artificially simulated damage, and the clean original image was not sent to the model. Local facial textures may be redrawn with no guarantee of authentic facial feature recovery or that faces remain unaltered. Not test-run within YouMind; tools or model quotas are not included. This candidate removes simulated damage, though fine facial and hair textures show reconstructed changes and require manual review rather than being considered an authentic final version.
ImagePhoto Restoration Studio
Old photo restoration specialist: upload an old photo of people, buildings, plants, or animals to repair damage—scratches, creases, mold, stains, fading, and missing areas—and add historically appropriate color while strictly preserving the original composition, number of people, expressions, and image dimensions. Trigger it when users say “restore an old photo,” “colorize an old photo,” “can this badly damaged photo be repaired?”, “colorize a photo of my grandparents,” “can you remove the scratches?”, “make an old photo clearer,” or “restore a family photo.” Core rule: restoration is subtraction, not addition—remove damage without adding content, and make the edit as invisible as possible. Faces are the only acceptance standard; colorization is a reasonable estimate, not a fact; the image dimensions must exactly match the original. By default, the output dimensions match the uploaded photo. Nano Banana 2.1’s high-fidelity reference image mode is preferred; Midjourney is disabled. For severe damage, use a two-step process: restore first in black and white, then colorize.
Old Photo Restoration
Restores scratches, creases, stains, noise, and aging damage in old photos while enhancing clarity. Strictly preserves subjects and composition, processes colors based on whether the photo is black and white, faded, or color, and outputs a realistic photographic texture.
Information
- Version
- v4
- Last updated
- Runtime credits
- Usage-based
- Models
- Auto
- Use cases
- Images & design
- What you get
- Image
- Visual styles
- Retro
