AI Photo Restoration
Upload a faded, scratched, or torn old photo and the AI repairs the damage, recovers lost detail, and adds natural color in a single click — the same faces, poses, and composition stay faithful to the original. Built for family albums, shoebox prints, and archival scans you want to reprint and share.
Damage we repair
Decades in an album leave their mark. The restorer recognizes the usual suspects and clears them in one pass — without flattening the grain and character that make an old print feel real. If your photo has any of these, it is a good candidate.
See a restore
Damage removed
Surface scratches, dust, creases, and torn edges are cleared so the print reads clean.
Detail recovered
Soft, faded areas are sharpened and contrast is rebalanced to bring back texture in faces and fabric.
Natural color added
Period-plausible tones are layered onto a black & white or yellowed original for a lifelike finish.
Under the hood
Scan the scan
The model reads your upload — mapping where the damage is and which areas still hold real detail.
Repair the damage
Scratches, creases, stains, and torn edges are removed and missing texture is rebuilt from context.
Recover color & detail
Exposure is corrected, fine detail is sharpened, and natural color is added for a lifelike result.
FAQ
Practical answers about repairable damage, colorizing black & white, face accuracy, scan quality, and using your restored photos.
It reliably clears scratches, creases, fading, dust, specks, stains, mild blur, low contrast, and torn or missing corners. What it cannot do is invent details that were never captured: if a chunk of a face or a whole figure is torn away, the AI fills it with a plausible guess, not the real lost content. Treat large missing areas as approximate reconstructions.
Yes — the restore pass recovers detail and adds natural, period-appropriate color in the same step. Colors are an AI estimate of what was plausible (skin tones, foliage, common clothing), not a record of the exact original hues. If you know a dress was blue, regenerate or note it as an interpretation when you share.
The model is instructed to preserve the same people, expressions, poses, and bone structure rather than redraw them. On clear originals faces stay faithful; on very blurry or damaged ones the AI has less to work with and may smooth or shift features. Always compare the result against the original at full size and regenerate if anyone looks off.
Flat, even lighting and sharp focus beat resolution every time. Lay the print flat, avoid glare and shadows, fill the frame with the photo, and shoot or scan straight-on. A clean 1500px scan restores better than a dark, angled 4000px phone snap, because the AI recovers real detail rather than amplifying noise.
Partly. Small gaps along edges or in a background rebuild convincingly. Large holes over faces, hands, or text are reconstructed from context, so review them closely and consider cropping to the intact area instead. For irreplaceable photos, keep the original scan alongside the restored version.
Upload JPG, PNG, or WebP up to 10MB. If your scan is larger, export a slightly compressed JPG — quality 90 keeps the detail the AI needs while staying under the limit. The restored result downloads as a standard image you can reprint or share.
Your upload is used only to generate your restored image. Family photos are personal, so we do not display your uploads publicly. Sign in to keep restores in your private history; otherwise download the result and it is yours to keep.
You can use your results for personal keepsakes, reprints, memorials, and genealogy freely. For commercial use — selling restoration as a service, publishing in a book — make sure you hold the rights to the original photograph, since restoring it does not grant you copyright over the underlying image.
Start with a prompt or reference, compare models, and save the best result to history. Upgrade when you need cleaner exports, stronger models, or more production volume.
