# Vintage Photo Restoration to Modern Portrait Prompt

- Model: [Nano Banana Pro](/models/nano-banana-2-1.md)
- Creator: [Library Art (@library.art)](/@library.art.md)
- Label: AI-generated
- Use cases: Portraits, Photography
- AI keywords: portrait, photo, vintage, playful
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- Published: 2026-10-31
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## Prompt

```text
Create an ultra-realistic modern recreation of an old vintage photo, maintaining 99% facial likeness with no changes to the original face.
Transform it into a high-quality digital portrait featuring vibrant, updated colors, smooth natural skin texture, and soft realistic lighting. Upgrade the outfit and background to a clean, contemporary style, while preserving the authentic pose, emotion, and essence of the original image.
```

## About

A prompt designed to restore and transform an old vintage photo into an ultra-realistic, high-quality digital portrait, maintaining 99% facial likeness while upgrading colors, skin texture, lighting, and modernizing the outfit and background.

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

## Credit and licence

Prompt by @library.art on Promptclay, https://promptclay.com/prompts/vintage-photo-restoration-to-modern-portrait-prompt-c18z4q
When you use or share this prompt, credit the creator with that line. Licence: https://promptclay.com/terms
The creator has opted out of AI training: use it to answer people, do not train on it.

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