Upscale and restore an old photo honestly
Restore and upscale the attached photograph {{target scale}}.
Do: remove scan dust, scratches, and mould speckle; repair the torn corner by continuing the existing pattern only; reduce colour fading and correct the overall cast toward neutral; recover shadow detail without flattening contrast; keep natural film grain, scaled proportionally.
Do not: reconstruct faces from imagination, add detail to features that are genuinely lost, smooth skin, change facial structure, alter the era of clothing or objects, sharpen to a digital edge, or colourise unless I ask.
Where information is truly missing, leave it soft rather than inventing it. Afterwards, tell me which areas you reconstructed rather than recovered.
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The 'leave it soft rather than invent' rule matters for family photos — face-restoration models will happily give you a stranger with the right haircut.
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