AI Photo Restoration & Old Photo Repair

Scan or photograph the original at the highest practical resolution. Keep the print flat, avoid reflections, include the full border, and do not apply strong filters before uploading. A clear source gives the model more real information to preserve.

Choose the mode that matches the main problem. Full restoration handles mixed wear, while focused modes target scratches, fading, blur, faces, or black-and-white colorization. Each image costs one credit, including each image in a batch.

Start with the least invasive correction that solves the problem. Keep people, expressions, clothing, furniture, background objects, framing, and period character intact. Retain the source scan and compare it with the result at the same crop and zoom.

Colorization is an interpretation rather than proof of the original colors. Use restrained, historically plausible color and avoid presenting inferred clothing, eye, hair, vehicle, or building colors as verified facts.

Generative restoration can infer pixels that were blurred, scratched, faded, or missing. It cannot recover information that no longer exists with certainty, and it may alter faces, hands, patterns, jewelry, writing, or small objects.

Inspect every person and meaningful detail at full size before printing or sharing. For archives, legal evidence, genealogy, journalism, museums, or historically important material, preserve an untouched master scan and label the restored copy as AI-assisted.