TechRepublic has a piece on using AI tools like ChatGPT and Google Gemini to restore old photographs through carefully written prompts. The article lays out six specific prompts targeting different problems: overall damage, portrait quality, colorizing black-and-white images, repairing physical damage like tears and stains, fixing exposure issues, and a comprehensive multi-stage deep restoration approach.
I have a box of old slides that have seen better days — fading, scratches, the usual. Rather than paying for professional restoration or fumbling around with Photoshop, this gives me a reasonable starting point for experimenting with AI-assisted cleanup. The prompts are detailed enough to be genuinely useful rather than vague hand-waving, and the before-and-after examples in the article suggest the results are at least worth trying.
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https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-ai-prompts-restore-old-photos/
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