How much does it cost?

16 credits per photo, charged when you submit, with or without colour. New accounts get a gift of credits on sign-up, enough to try it on a photo that matters before deciding anything. If a photo fails to process, the credits for it come straight back to your balance.

Which files can I upload — does it have to be a scan?

JPEG, PNG, WEBP, up to 15 MB each. JPG and JPEG are the same format, so files ending in either extension work. A flatbed scan is best, but a phone photo of the print works too — shoot it flat, under even light, without a flash bouncing off the surface.

What size do I get back?

A PNG at about 1K — roughly 1,024 pixels on the long side, with the original proportions kept. That is the right size for a screen, a shared album, a slideshow and a standard print. If you need the restored photo larger — a framed enlargement, a wall print — run the result through the Image Upscaler afterwards and take it to 4K.

Will it add colour to my black-and-white photo?

Only if you ask it to. Restoration and colour are separate: by default a black-and-white photo comes back black and white, just cleaned up. Turn Colorize on and colour is added in the same pass, with the repair still done. The colours are inferred from what is in the picture — skin, sky, foliage and fabric come out naturally; the exact shade of a dress or a car is an educated guess, so if you know it was red, expect red but not necessarily the same red.

Will the people still look like themselves?

That is what the tool is built around: faces are repaired, not replaced. The framing, the pose, the expression and everyone in the picture stay as they were; the tool brings back the detail that dust, fading and grain had hidden. Where a scratch runs straight across an eye or a fold has taken a mouth, the repair fills in from the surrounding face — nearly always right, and worth a close look on the slider before you print.

Can I restore several photos at once?

Yes — up to 10 photos per batch, which suits an album or a box of prints scanned in one sitting. Each photo is processed on its own and appears as its own result, so one badly damaged print never holds up the rest. Finished results can be downloaded together as a zip.

Are my photos private, and how long are they kept?

Uploads and results live in your workspace and no other user can browse them; nothing you run here is published. Results stay downloadable for 7 days on the free plan and up to 365 days on the highest subscription tier, after which they are deleted from storage.

What happens if a photo fails?

The credits for that photo are returned to your balance automatically and the result card says so. You can retry the same photo from the result card without uploading it again.

Can I use the results commercially?

Yes. The restored files are yours — for prints, a memorial slideshow, a family history book or a client project. The one thing we cannot grant is rights to the original photograph — if it was taken by a studio or belongs to someone else, restoring it does not change that.

Restore old photos — scratches, creases and fading repaired

Scan a print, upload it, and get back a clean PNG with the damage gone and the faces, framing and everyone in the picture kept exactly as they were. Add colour, or leave a black-and-white photo black and white. Up to 10 photos per batch.

Drop images here, paste from clipboard, or select files

JPEG · PNG · WEBP · up to 15 MB each · up to 10 per batch

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Restored old photos — before and after

Every result below came straight out of the tool, with no touch-ups. Drag the handle to check the faces up close, then drop your own scan at the top of the page.

After — Scratched and dusty print
Scratches and specks gone, the grain calmed

What this photo restorer does

It takes a scan of an old print — the kind that has lived in a shoebox, an album with sticky pages or a frame in the sun — and repairs what time did to it: scratches and dust, the crease where it was folded into a wallet, the stain in a corner, the colour that drifted to orange, the grain of a cheap film. Faces get their detail back, and the picture stays the picture: same framing, same people, same expressions, nothing added and nobody moved. Up to 10 photos per batch.

Reach for it for the photos that matter: the only picture of a grandparent as a young person, a wedding print from the sixties, the school photo with a fold straight through a face, a family group where the fading has taken the sky. Colour is optional — a black-and-white photo stays black and white unless you ask for colour, and if you do, it is added in the same pass. If colour is the main thing you are after, Photo Colorizer is the same tool with sample results for that. For a photo that is not damaged but simply too small or too soft, the Image Upscaler takes it up to 4K.

A restored photo usually wants to go somewhere: open it in the AI Image Generator to set it in a new scene or make a print-ready version, or use it as the opening frame of a short family clip in AI Video. If scan resolution, film grain or colour cast are unfamiliar words, the glossary explains each one.

Photo Restorer specifications

Photo Restorer specifications
Parameter	Value	Notes
Input	JPEG, PNG, WEBP · up to 15 MB each	Scans and phone photos of prints — .jpg and .jpeg are both fine.
Output	PNG · about 1K (≈1,024 px long side)	PNG at about 1K — roughly 1,024 pixels on the long side, proportions kept. Sized for screens, shared albums and standard prints.
Batch size	Up to 10 photos per run	Photos are processed in parallel; each one is billed and refunded on its own.
Credits	16 credits per photo · no daily cap	Charged per photo when you submit — the same price with or without colour, with no daily cap.
Result retention	7–365 days by plan	Results stay downloadable for the retention window of your plan, then are deleted from storage.
On failure	Credits refunded automatically	If a photo cannot be processed, the credits for that photo are returned to your balance automatically.

How to restore an old photo

Three steps from a damaged scan to a clean PNG

Add your scans

Scan the print, or photograph it flat under even light, then drag the files in, paste from the clipboard or click anywhere on the drop area — up to 10 per batch.

Decide whether to add colour

Every photo gets the full repair — scratches, creases, stains, fading, grain, faces. Colour is a separate choice: keep a black-and-white photo as it is, or turn Colorize on and the colour is added in the same pass.

Download the PNG

Every result comes as a before/after slider so you can check the faces up close. The result can also go on to AI Image or AI Video without leaving the site.

Photo Restorer — FAQ

Credits, scanning, colour, faces

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