Промт для реставрации и колоризации советских ретро-портретов

Perform meticulous non-destructive restoration and colorization of this aged photograph. Restore, enhance, and colorize to maximum technical quality — crisp, noise-free, full of detail. Add historically accurate colors. Output MUST have the EXACT same aspect ratio as the input.

Colorize the EXISTING photograph using SVEMA 32/64 color palette: characteristic of mid-century Eastern European photography with slightly cool, natural skin tones, moderate contrast, and balanced mid-tones. Shadows are deep but hold detail, and highlights are soft and natural. 

Damage map: Massive geometric cracks, white creases, and spiderweb tears across the entire surface. Significant emulsion loss on the right edge and top-left corner. Major diagonal crack intersecting the face and left eye. Stains and fading are concentrated in the left mid-ground.

Background: Restore the neutral studio backdrop by removing all chemical stains, fading, and the prominent white diagonal cracks on the left and right. Colorize with a muted, earthen or cool-grey tone typical of a 1950s-1960s Soviet portrait studio. Apply the same sharpness and noise reduction to the wall as the subject's face.

Foreground and Clothing: Restore the subject’s blouse, removing the heavy white creases crossing her shoulder and chest. Colorize the garment in a historically accurate pastel or off-white tone. Enhance the blouse to show sharp micro-detail of the fabric weave, collar stitching, and natural fold shadows. Ensure the texture of the cloth is distinct and crisp, avoiding any blur or smoothing.

Edges and Corners: Recover the missing information from the torn right edge and the peeling top-left and bottom corners. Fill the damaged areas with consistent texture from the background and clothing. Restore the dark bottom edge fully without losing depth.

Faces: Remove the critical cracks crossing the forehead, bridge of the nose, and the left eye. Restore the eye to show clear iris detail and a natural catchlight. Preserve the natural skin texture—do not airbrush. Skin tone must be WARM-NEUTRAL to COOL-NEUTRAL (Eastern European/Soviet type), avoiding any orange, pink, or waxy tones. Ensure the skin looks alive and detailed with pores and fine lines intact.

Apply IDENTICAL restoration AND colorization quality to background, foreground, clothing, AND faces. Background must be as sharp, detailed, and richly colorized as the face. Clothing must show fabric weave and stitching in full detail. WARNING: You have a natural bias toward faces. COMPENSATE—apply extra restoration and colorization effort to background, clothing, and the far edges of the image. Natural analog-film palette—moderate saturation, warm-neutral tones. ALL areas processed with EQUAL quality.

ANTI-BIAS ALERT: You naturally focus restoration/colorization on FACES while leaving background, clothing, and foreground under-processed. This is the #1 quality failure. Consciously counteract this.

MANDATORY UNIFORM QUALITY CHECK:
- Background sharpness = Face sharpness (NOT less)
- Clothing detail = Face detail (fabric weave, buttons fully visible)
- Foreground objects = Faces (flowers, grass, objects NOT blurry)
- Edges/corners = Center of image (NOT softer or less restored)
Any area less sharp or colorized than faces is a FAILURE — redo that area.

ABSOLUTE RULES — NEVER VIOLATE:
- DISABLE FACE-SPECIFIC PROCESSING: Do NOT apply face detection, face restoration, face enhancement, or face upscaling to any face in the image. Faces must receive the EXACT SAME treatment as walls, sky, trees, and furniture — no more, no less. Imagine restoring a landscape painting where faces are just another textured region.
- QUALITY + REPAIR MODE: enhance technical quality (remove noise/grain, apply uniform sharpening, improve dynamic range) uniformly across the ENTIRE image, AND repair physical damage. The goal is the same photo at maximum possible quality — as if shot with a modern camera
- CONTENT LOCK: do NOT change people, objects, composition, style, or era. Same scene, same identity — just technically better. Sharper, cleaner, noise-free everywhere
- DO NOT recreate, reimagine, or regenerate any part of the scene — work only with what is already in the photo
- DO NOT add, invent, or hallucinate any part of the image that is not in the original
- FACE RECONSTRUCTION FORBIDDEN: Do NOT rebuild, reconstruct, or regenerate any face. Ensure no artificially generated face replaces any original face in the photo. Pixel-level repair only — remove damage that covers a face, but never reconstruct the face itself
- SEVERELY DAMAGED FACE RULE: If a face is so damaged that original features cannot be recovered — preserve only the abstract shapes, tones, and existing outlines. DO NOT generate, imagine, or invent what the face might look like. It is better to show a blurry or partially damaged face than to show a different person's face.
- WRONG IDENTITY = CRITICAL FAILURE: If the output shows a different person than the input, or a face that was generated/invented by AI, the result is completely unacceptable. A partially damaged original face is always better than a perfect AI-generated replacement face.
- DO NOT change, replace, or alter any person's face, body, or identity. 100% original subject identity and facial features must be preserved
- DO NOT change facial expression — mouth shape, lip curve, and overall expression must be IDENTICAL to the original
- DO NOT change eye gaze direction — eyes must look in the exact same direction as in the original photo
- SKIN TEXTURE: Apply frequency-separation logic — remove temporary surface damage (chemical stains, scratches, foxing) but strictly preserve all underlying skin texture: pores, fine lines, wrinkles, natural imperfections. Do NOT smooth the skin to a plastic finish
- INTENSITY: Apply strong, professional-grade quality enhancement uniformly. The goal is a noticeably better, sharper, cleaner result — not a barely-touched version of the original
- DO NOT add or remove any person or object
- DO NOT modernize clothing, hairstyles, or any visual elements. Preserve the original era, style, and visual aesthetic of the photo
- FILM GRAIN / NOISE = DEFECTS: Film grain, sensor noise, and age-related softness are technical defects to ELIMINATE — they are NOT authentic character to preserve. Remove them aggressively across the ENTIRE image
- ASPECT RATIO CRITICAL: Output must have the EXACT same aspect ratio as the input. DO NOT crop, add borders, expand canvas, or shift composition. Wrong aspect ratio = critical failure
- CANVAS SIZE: Output must have EXACTLY the same canvas dimensions as the input. DO NOT expand, add borders, or fill in areas outside the original photo boundaries. If the photo has torn/missing edges — keep them as-is or darken, but NEVER extend the canvas
- SHARPNESS: Every pixel of the output must be crisp and sharp. NO softness, NO blur, NO smoothing anywhere. Blurry output is a critical failure
- SKIN COLOR: Eastern European skin = warm-neutral to cool-neutral, medium tone. NEVER red or orange. NEVER ghostly pale or washed-out. NEVER airbrushed or plastic. DO NOT add acne, spots or marks not in the original
- COLOR SATURATION: Keep overall saturation MODERATE — natural analog film look. NOT vivid digital. NOT pale or desaturated`
- SKIN TONES: natural, warm, lifelike — NOT red, NOT orange, NOT pale/washed-out, NOT plastic/airbrushed
- DO NOT smooth, airbrush, or beautify faces — preserve ALL natural skin texture (pores, subtle imperfections)
- SATURATION: moderate and natural — like a real color photograph. NOT oversaturated, NOT pale/washed-out
- CONTRAST: moderate — natural tonal range, no HDR
- All colors natural and lifelike — real photograph look
- Apply uniform sharpness to the ENTIRE image — NO background blur