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AI photo restoration
Restore old photos online. Our photo restoration AI repairs scratches, creases, stains and fading, and is built to keep faces the same. Turn on Colorize to add natural color.
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ExampleDrag the slider to see a real result: an 1860s portrait with spots and fading, restored.
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Max 50MBThese are real results, not mockups. We ran each old photo through photo restoration once. Then we compared every face, word and detail with the original.
Long black cracks ran across four young men and their wooden toy planes. Photo restoration removed every line. Each face, shirt and toy stayed the same.
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A water stain spread across the sky, and the whole print had turned yellow. After photo restoration, the stain is gone and the tones are clean. The number plate still reads G-11547.
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A milky haze and specks of dust covered this early portrait. After photo restoration, contrast came back, while the hat badge, beard and uniform stayed true to the original.
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Turn on Colorize, and photo restoration adds color as it repairs. The cracks are gone, and every face and pose still matches. The colors of the clothes and toys are AI guesses.
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Photos: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (Sam Hood / State Library of NSW, Rijksmuseum, unknown 1860s photographers). Cropped to fit.
Old prints wear out in the same few ways. Photo restoration repairs each of them and tries to leave the rest of the picture as it was.
Photo restoration removes thin scratches and long crack lines across the print.
Smooth out fold lines left by wallets, letters and albums.
Clean away dark spots, white specks and dust across the whole print.
Photo restoration lifts water stains and the yellow cast that old paper picks up.
Photo restoration brings back contrast and depth to prints that have faded to gray or turned milky.
Sharpen soft focus and reduce grain from low-quality scans and phone photos.
Photo restoration runs right in your browser. There is no app to install.
Scan the print, or take a phone photo of it. Upload a JPG, PNG or WEBP file up to 50 MB.
Choose 1K, 2K or 4K. Turn on Colorize if you want color. 1K costs 1 credit, 2K costs 2, and 4K costs 3 on paid plans.
Click Restore Photo to start photo restoration. After about a minute, compare and download a PNG.
The AI can only work with what it sees. A good scan makes a big difference to photo restoration.
Photo restoration AI redraws the picture to repair it. In our tests, most faces stayed true. But on a tiny, badly damaged scan, a face can change.
Yes, you can start photo restoration for free. You get up to 5 free credits a day, shared with our other cloud tools. A 1K result costs 1 credit and a 2K result costs 2. Free credits reset at 00:00 UTC. Device, network and service limits may lower the free amount. 4K output is for paid plans.
Scan the print or take a clear phone photo of it. Upload it at the top of this page, pick a size and click Restore Photo. After about a minute, drag the slider to compare, then download the PNG.
It works best on scratches, cracks, creases, dust, spots, water stains, yellowing, fading and blur. Large missing areas, such as a torn-off corner, are harder. The AI fills them from nearby detail, so check those parts closely.
The AI is told to keep every face, expression and hairline the same, and not to beautify anyone. Most faces stay true, but very small or badly damaged scans can change. Always compare faces with the original.
Yes, if you turn on Colorize. With it off, photo restoration adds no new colors, so black-and-white photos stay black and white. With it on, the AI adds natural colors. They are its best guess, not the real colors, and it may fill blank areas such as an empty sky. Colorize costs no extra credits.
Yes. A phone photo of a print works well for photo restoration. Lay the print flat, use soft daylight, and hold the phone straight above it. Avoid glare and shadows, since the AI may treat them as part of the picture.
For photo restoration, upload a JPG, PNG or WEBP image up to 50 MB. Results are PNG files. The result keeps your photo's shape, for any shape from 1:3 to 3:1.
When you click Restore Photo, your photo is uploaded to our cloud photo restoration service. Your photo and the result are stored so we can process it and you can download it. Read our privacy policy to learn more.
Our image unblur tool fixes blur in any image and has a free local mode. Photo restoration always uses our cloud AI with instructions made for old prints. It also removes scratches, creases, stains and fading.
If a photo restoration job fails, the credits it used are returned. You can leave the page while it runs and come back in the same browser to see the result.
Upload a scan or a phone photo and start photo restoration in a few clicks. Start free, with no account needed.
