Mono Portrait

Real public-domain photographs, not fictional people. In each pair the source is on the left and the unedited result on the right. The face comes from the source, with only tone and light changed. No generative image model was used.

Source photo of Dr. Gladys West in a hat and glassesBlack-and-white studio result of Dr. Gladys West
Source photo of Jessica Watkins in front of flagsBlack-and-white studio result of Jessica Watkins
Source photo of Katherine Johnson in glassesBlack-and-white studio result of Katherine Johnson

Dr. Gladys West

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Source: U.S. Air Force photo by Adrian Cadiz, 6 December 2018, ID 181206-F-DT527-087 (cropped). Licence: public domain, work of the U.S. federal government (PD-USGov-Military-Air Force). File page

Jessica Watkins

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Source: NASA photo by Bill Stafford, 15 September 2017. Licence: public domain, work of NASA (PD-USGov-NASA). File page. A complete output folder from a reduced copy of this photo, which check.mjs passes, is in output/.

Katherine Johnson

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Source: NASA, 1983, image 1983-L-04373. Licence: public domain, work of NASA (PD-USGov-NASA). File page

Sunita Williams

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Source: NASA photo by Robert Markowitz, 31 July 2018. Licence: public domain, work of NASA (PD-USGov-NASA). File page

Dr. Francis Collins

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Source: National Institutes of Health, 30 June 2017. Licence: public domain, work of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (PD-USGov-HHS). File page. This source is cropped close, so it is framed closer and the body fades out on the open side.

Insignia and name patches stay legible here because these are test photographs. On your own portrait, use your own photo and not an official one. These people and agencies have no connection with this skill and do not endorse it. Public-domain status covers the copyright in the photograph, not a person's right to control how their likeness is used. For your own use of this skill, use only a photo of yourself or of someone who has given permission.