Photo Restoration:
Frequently Asked Questions
I only have a physical photo. How can you restore it?
In order to upload your photo to our service, make a scan of it. For most photographs, it’s best to use a smartphone with a camera that can take high-quality images.
Open your camera app and take a picture of your photograph at a 90-degree angle. Before you restore old photos, ensure they are fully visible, in clear focus, and well-lit (no shine though: it may obstruct scratch removal and face enhancement). Now, upload the newly-done picture to this AI photo restorer, and we’ll repair, edit, and bring it back to life. Then download the resulting photos.
If you don’t have a phone camera, use a usual printer to scan your old photo (try to keep the original color of the picture so that our tool restores better).
If by any chance, you need both to restore your old photo and take a photo for your passport, you can use our online services as well.
Just like that, you can take a passport photo online that will meet all official rules, be suitable for your passport application and accepted by the passport office. Your photo will be compliant as if you’d got a Target passport photo, or a picture at a pharmacy photo center, say, CVS passport photo. All that without leaving home. Try out now!Why is your photo repair service free?
It’s AI that does the editing and old photo restoration, which lets us keep the service free. As our restoration tools are fully automated, we don’t spend on professional photo artists. Hence, our online AI service restores without any hidden fees, paid features, watermarks, limitations—you can revive and preserve your photos for future family generations for absolutely free.
A tip on restoration of old photos: having scratched or otherwise damaged images software-edited by professional human artists will cost a lot. The result will be good, but such hand-performed old photo editing will cost you at least $35—that’s the minimum price for preserving one faded or damaged digital shot. If you don’t just want to restore old photos, but also have them printed and/or sent to your home, you’ll have to pay much more. And if you enhance multiple old pictures with the help of experts, the total cost will increase manifold.
That’s why our free online photo restorer may become your perfect solution to sharpen and revitalize cherished memories without spending a small fortune. Like human experts, our service will remove scratches, tears, and water-damaged spots to improve the quality of your pictures, but will do so at no cost. In addition, you can try to restore images of your old photos as many times as you want—all revisions are free. Similarly, there are no quantity limits—if you want to repair more photos, you won’t have to pay for any of those.Can AI photo repair be as good as a photo artist?
In most cases, it can. Gone are the days when photo editors like Photoshop and other photo restoration software were the only way to revitalize faded vintage photos. Today, we have neural networks.
With their advanced algorithms, it takes seconds to achieve the same result. And in contrast with any software, you don’t do anything by hand: our AI photo restoration tool scans your image, detects what needs repair, fills in the missing parts, and fixes defects. Whether you need to remove scratches or add color to faded photos, it’ll restore as properly as a human artist would.What kind of damage can you fix?
First of all, we repair old photos, including black-and-white images and pictures with faded colors. Scan the pictures you want to have repaired and upload them here. Once photos pass the uploading stage (in seconds), our AI-powered tool will correct all details and enhance your picture online. For instance, it will smoothen or remove scratches, creases, cracks, and water-damaged spots in the restored versions of your damaged photos (and do some face enhancement).
Also, we’ll fix the poor quality typical of old cameras. Restore vintage old photos—they’ll become vivid when our tool brings back correct colors and eliminates minor imperfections. Also, you won’t need to convert your old photos to specific formats. Our service handles most sizes: we’ll restore and sharpen black-and-white photos with scratches and other defects, too.
Our tools don’t just restore old photos: in addition to working with older scratch-ridden pictures, our online photo restoration tool can handle flawed details in recent photographs as well. For example, we’ll fix heavily pixelated or blurred photos by upscaling them to proper quality and clarity (i.e. by upping the resolution while preserving correct brigthness and colors). A use case example: if you have a good photo you’d use as your LinkedIn profile picture if it weren’t for its low quality, process it here! Our AI photo restoration tool will make it look far better.How do I know it is safe to upload photos here?
It’s an AI-powered robot that will restore and enhance your damaged old photos, not a person. By automating the AI photo restoration process, we eliminate the human element to give maximum privacy to our users and their photographs.
Also, we don’t keep your damaged photos anywhere. For restoration purposes, your images are stored online as hash values —this means we won’t be able to open, view, or share them with anyone (we can only improve them by restoring, removing scratches, and so on). When you enhance your old photos, you can be confident that only you can see your original pictures and their repaired versions.Is there any limitation on the service use?
There isn’t. Our old photo restoration service is unmanned—this lets us enhance images without limits. Use our AI photo restorer as many times as you need, without any hidden costs. All features (like face enhancement, scratch removal, and color correction) remain free.
We also use an online tool for screening and correcting passport photos. They come out as compliant as if you had gone to a store for a USPS passport photo and got it offline. But it’s all done online with unlimited attempts.
When we say our service has no upload and download limits, we 100% mean it. Our AI can even restore a whole album with wedding pictures or your collection of old family photos—restoring will still be free even with dozens of damaged old photos bringing back precious memories.Who owns the rights to my photo?
Only you do. Although you restore old photos on our page, we won’t have legal rights to your images and will never claim any. The fact that you process your shot from scratch in our online photo restoration tool won’t change anything legal-wise: if you own rights to the original picture, you will preserve them (i.e. the restored version of your old photo will be subject to them as well).
