# Colorize Historical Aerial Photo

- Model: [GPT Image 2](/models/chatgpt-image.md)
- Creator: [Library Explainers (@library.explainers)](/@library.explainers.md)
- Label: AI-generated
- Use cases: Photography
- AI keywords: photo, vintage
- Copies: 0
- Saves: 0
- Published: 2026-10-31
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## Prompt

```text
Using REFERENCE_0 as the base image, colorize the monochrome historical aerial photograph while preserving the exact original framing, angle, scale, film border, edge markings, and all geographic structures. Use REFERENCE_1 only as a color-reference guide for plausible land-surface colors seen from above. Keep the old photo’s layout and terrain details unchanged, but infer naturalistic colors for 4 major surface types: river water in muted blue-green, vegetation and farmland in varied dark greens, bare soil/sand and construction areas in tan-beige, and roads/buildings/industrial roofs in subdued gray to light brown. Maintain a realistic archival aerial-photo look rather than a modern satellite style, with slightly restrained saturation, subtle contrast, and consistent coloring across the whole scene.
```

## About

This prompt turns a black-and-white aerial photograph into a plausible colorized version using another aerial image as a color reference, useful for historical map and geography visualization.

Prompt from YouMind OpenLab (github.com/YouMind-OpenLab).

## Credit and licence

Prompt by @library.explainers on Promptclay, https://promptclay.com/prompts/colorize-historical-aerial-photo-8pts7w
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## In collections

- [ChatGPT Vintage Photo Prompts](/chatgpt-vintage-photo-prompts.md): Vintage photo prompts for ChatGPT: sepia portraits, 1970s film looks, faded colour and old-print effects (https://promptclay.com/chatgpt-vintage-photo-prompts)

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- [Photo prompts](/search.md?q=photo) (https://promptclay.com/search?q=photo)
- [Photography prompts](/search.md?q=photography) (https://promptclay.com/search?q=photography)

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