How to Check Facial Hair in a Restored Portrait
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Compare moustaches, beards, sideburns, and stubble without letting generated texture change a person's appearance.
Identify what defines the person
Facial hair can merge with shadows, scratches, and print grain. Identify the outer shape and density visible in the source, and look for another photograph from the same period if one exists.
Compare the edited portrait
Compare the edited hairline around lips, cheeks, and jaw. Repeated strands, perfectly even edges, or a fuller beard may be plausible but unsupported. Check that the mouth and chin were not reshaped beneath it.
Choose a faithful version
Choose the version that follows surviving boundaries. If a style is uncertain, record that uncertainty rather than using the restoration as evidence for a genealogy claim.
Check before you finish
- Trace surviving facial-hair boundaries.
- Check the mouth and chin underneath.
- Do not treat generated strands as evidence.
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