Ultra-High-Resolution Portrait Restoration
{ "prompt": "Restore and fully enhance this old, blurry, faded, and damaged portrait photograph. Transform it into an ultra-high-resolution…
Prompt
{
"prompt": "Restore and fully enhance this old, blurry, faded, and damaged portrait photograph. Transform it into an ultra-high-resolution, photorealistic image with HDR-like lighting, natural depth-of-field, professional digital studio light effects, and realistic bokeh. Apply super-resolution enhancement to recreate lost details in low-resolution or blurred areas. Smooth skin and textures while preserving all micro-details such as individual hair strands, eyelashes, pores, facial features, and fabric threads. Remove noise, scratches, dust, and artifacts completely. Correct colors naturally with accurate contrast and brightness. Maintain realistic shadows, reflections, and lighting dynamics, emphasizing the subject while keeping the background softly blurred. Ensure every element, including clothing and background textures, is ultra-detailed and lifelike. If black-and-white, restore accurate grayscale tones with proper contrast. Avoid over-processing or artificial look. Output should be a professional, modern, ultra-high-quality, photorealistic studio-style portrait, preserving authenticity, proportions, and mood, completely smooth yet ultra-detailed.",
"steps": [
{
"step": 1,
"action": "Super-resolution",
"description": "Upscale the image to ultra-high-resolution (8K or higher) to recreate lost details."
},
{
"step": 2,
"action": "Deblur and repair",
"description": "Fix blur, motion artifacts, scratches, dust, and other damage in the photo."
},
{
"step": 3,
"action": "Texture and micro-detail enhancement",
"description": "Smooth skin and surfaces while preserving ultra-micro-details such as pores, hair strands, eyelashes, and fabric threads."
},
{
"step": 4,
"action": "Color correction",
"description": "Adjust colors naturally, maintain realistic contrast and brightness, simulate modern camera color science."
},
{
"step": 5,
"action": "HDR lighting and digital studio effect",
"description": "Apply HDR-like lighting, professional digital studio lighting, realistic shadows, reflections, and controlled depth-of-field with soft bokeh background."
},
{
"step": 6,
"action": "Background and detail restoration",
"description": "Ensure background elements, clothing, and textures are sharp, ultra-detailed, and clean, while preserving natural blur for depth."
},
{
"step": 7,
"action": "Grayscale adjustment (if applicable)",
"description": "Restore black-and-white portraits with accurate grayscale tones and proper contrast."
},
{
"step": 8,
"action": "Final polishing",
"description": "Avoid over-processing, maintain a natural and authentic look, preserve original mood and proportions, ensure ultra-smooth yet ultra-detailed output."
}
]
}How to use this prompt
- 1
Copy the prompt above and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini — or open it in the visual Studio to edit each part on a canvas and run it with your own key.
- 2
Replace any bracketed placeholders with your specifics. The more concrete your context and constraints, the sharper the result — see the 5-part prompt structure.
- 3
Run it, then refine. Ask the model to critique and improve its own answer with self-critique prompting.
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