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date: "2025-11-01T00:00:00Z"
categories:
  - linkedin
description: I used Google Gemini 2.5 Flash to convert my parents' 55-year-old black-and-white wedding photos into high-resolution color images. By using specific prompting, I preserved facial accuracy while adding modern digital sharpness and vivid colors.
keywords: [google gemini, image colorization, gemini-2.5-flash-image, photo restoration, prompt engineering, generative ai]
---

Sometimes, technology creates truly memorable moments.

Like when email connected me with my schoolmates in 1993.\
Or WhatsApp connected me with long-lost relatives in 2010.

Today, Google Gemini took me back 55 years, converting the grainy black-and-white wedding photos of my parents into vivid high-resolution color images.

So many people. Much younger. More alive.

I look forward to when I can watch the video. Move around. Talk to them...

- **Prompt**: _Convert this black and white photo to color. CAREFULLY ensure that the photo, especially faces, are EXACTLY the same. Use vivid colors and sharp photography, like in modern digital photos._
- **Model**: gemini-2.5-flash-image (nano-banana)
- **Temperature**: 0

![](https://files.s-anand.net/images/2025-11-01-appa-amma-wedding-color-linkedin.jpg)

![](https://files.s-anand.net/images/2025-11-01-appa-amma-wedding-original-linkedin.jpg)

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sanand0_sometimes-technology-creates-truly-memorable-activity-7390786874321321984-9nHR)