This prompt instructs the AI to take an attached aged black-and-white photograph and restore it into a natural-looking, era-faithful color image by repairing physical damage artifacts, correcting tonal range and white balance, and applying realistic period-appropriate colorization while preserving authentic texture, identity details, and subtle film grain. The expected outcome is a clean, gently graded, film-like color version with controlled contrast, believable skin and material tones, minimal noise and sharpening artifacts, and no invented content or unnecessary cropping.
This prompt instructs the AI to take an attached aged black-and-white photograph and restore it into a natural-looking, era-faithful color image by repairing physical damage artifacts, correcting tonal range and white balance, and applying realistic period-appropriate colorization while preserving authentic texture, identity details, and subtle film grain. The expected outcome is a clean, gently graded, film-like color version with controlled contrast, believable skin and material tones, minimal noise and sharpening artifacts, and no invented content or unnecessary cropping.
For more installation instructions go to https://skills.sh/betterpromptme/betterprompt/betterprompt to check out this skill.
This prompt requires . You (no more, no fewer), in the order matching the descriptions below.
| Index | Required | Description | Allowed CLI flags |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | image to restore | --image-input-url <url> or --image-input-base64 <base64> or --image-input-path <absolute path to image> |
This skill's modality is: image.
To discover which model values you can use (and which options keys/values are valid for each model), run:
betterprompt resources --models-only --json
Then filter the returned JSON array to entries where modality is "image".
First, run betterprompt resources --models-only --json and filter to modality: "image" to discover valid models and available options:
betterprompt resources --models-only --json
Use only the models and option values that appear in the filtered results.
Then collect all inputs from the human:
gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview and its available options. Look up gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview in the betterprompt resources output (filtered to modality "image") and show its availableOptions as: key: val1, val2 (default), val3 | key2: .... Mark a value (default) if it matches these defaults: {}.gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview, options {}. Other models from the resources call are also available.If the required images are missing, ask the human for what's missing. Do not assume or fabricate values. Tell the human: "Please provide images in this order: image 1 (image to restore)".
Use the frontmatter's name as the positional argument (for this skill, use restore-old-image).
Command form:
betterprompt generate restore-old-image \
[--image-input-url <url>] \
[--image-input-base64 <base64>] \
[--image-input-path <absolute path to image>] \
[--model <model>] \
[--options <options JSON>] \
[--json]
Notes:
--image-input-url, --image-input-base64, or --image-input-path, in the order matching the imageInputs descriptions (image 1 first, then image 2, etc.).--model and BetterPrompt will use the default model: gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview.--options and BetterPrompt will use the default options: {}.runId you can use to fetch the result later.Example (using defaults shown above):
betterprompt generate restore-old-image \
--image-input-url https://example.com/image1.png \
--model gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview \
--options '{}'