Use the uploaded black-and-white photograph as the exact reference.
Professionally colorize the image while preserving the original person, facial features, expression, pose, hairstyle, clothing, background, composition, and photographic details exactly as they appear in the source image.
Apply natural, realistic, historically believable colors throughout the photograph. Give the skin authentic human tones with subtle variation, realistic lips, natural eye color, accurate hair tones, and believable clothing colors. Avoid overly saturated, artificial, plastic-looking, or modernized colors.
Preserve the original lighting direction, highlights, shadows, contrast, depth, and texture. Maintain realistic fabric textures, skin details, hair strands, environmental materials, and background elements.
Remove minor discoloration, fading, dust, scratches, and age-related imperfections where appropriate, while keeping the authentic character of the original photograph.
Do not change the person's identity, facial structure, body proportions, expression, pose, clothing design, or background objects. Do not beautify, reshape, or reinterpret the subject.
Final result: a highly realistic, professionally restored and naturally colorized photograph that looks as though the original scene had been photographed in true color, with accurate skin tones, balanced color grading, fine photographic detail, and no obvious AI artifacts.
