Restore this vintage photograph to pristine condition while preserving absolute historical accuracy.
Clean and repair physical damage only. Remove dust, scratches, cracks, creases, stains, film grain artifacts, and scanning noise. Correct fading, discoloration, yellowing, and uneven exposure caused by aging. Balance contrast, whites, and blacks to natural photographic levels appropriate to the era.
If the image is black and white, keep it black and white. Do not colorize.
If the image is color, restore realistic natural color based on the original photo. Do not introduce modern color grading, saturation, or stylistic effects.
Preserve all people exactly as they appear. Do not change facial features, expressions, body shape, age, hair, clothing, posture, or identity. No beautification. No smoothing beyond removing film and scan damage. Skin texture must remain natural and period accurate.
Preserve all objects, backgrounds, and environmental details exactly as captured. Do not add, remove, replace, or reinterpret anything.
Improve sharpness and clarity only to the extent physically plausible for the original camera, film, and lens. Avoid over sharpening, AI hallucination, or synthetic detail.
Correct lighting inconsistencies caused by age, not by re lighting the scene. Shadows and highlights must remain consistent with the original photograph.
The final image should look like the original photo if it had been perfectly preserved, professionally cleaned, and re scanned at very high resolution.
No artistic reinterpretation. No modernization. No stylistic changes. No added details.
Upscale carefully using photographic reconstruction only. Do not invent textures, patterns, or details that were not present.
No face enhancement, no beauty retouching, no stylized color, no AI generated features, no modern lighting, no cinematic effects.