AI Photo Restoration Online

AI photo restoration uses a generative image model to create a repaired version of a damaged or faded photograph. It can reduce visible scratches, fading, stains, and blur, but it cannot recover missing historical information with certainty. Always compare the result with the original.

AI restoration is a fast first pass that generates a complete candidate automatically. A professional restorer can make deliberate, localized edits and use historical context that an automated model does not have. Use AI for quick restoration and sharing; use a skilled professional when documentary accuracy or severe reconstruction matters.

The restoration model uses visual patterns learned during its provider's model training to generate plausible repairs from the surrounding image. PhotoRestore does not train models on your uploads. Because the result is a prediction rather than recovered hidden data, faces, text, uniforms, and missing areas deserve careful comparison.

Upload a scan or photo, mark the areas that must remain unchanged, and start restoration. The model returns a repaired candidate that you can inspect with the before-and-after slider, retry with different protected areas, enhance, upscale, download, or share as an image file.

You can try heavily scratched, torn, faded, or water-damaged photos, but severe damage gives the model less reliable evidence. Missing areas may be reconstructed with plausible new detail rather than the original detail. Keep the original file and treat a professional restoration as the safer choice for historically important photographs.

Yes. A verified account includes 2 free credits per calendar month, with no card required. Each AI edit uses 1 credit. Free processing is subject to daily capacity and fair-use limits; downloads and sharing are free.

Processing often takes 30–90 seconds and sometimes longer. Once uploaded, a job continues if you leave the page. Keep the tab open to start remaining queued photos, and find completed jobs in your account.

We support all major image formats including JPG, JPEG, PNG, WEBP, HEIC, and BMP. Files up to 10MB can be uploaded directly. Whether your photo comes from a scanner, smartphone camera, or digital archive, it will work without any conversion needed.

Restoration can make damage less visible, but any generative edit can also smooth texture, change a face, or invent detail. Keep your original, inspect the comparison at 2× zoom, and try face protection when identity preservation matters more than removing every mark.

AI can produce a useful result quickly, but it is not a substitute for a professional's judgment on every image. A professional can preserve documentary detail, repair selected areas by hand, and review historical references. Compare the AI result carefully and use a professional for irreplaceable or severely damaged originals.

Yes. It works on scans, phone pictures of prints, and existing digital images with fading, stains, noise or compression damage. Start from the least-compressed copy you have: a photo saved from a chat app has already lost detail the model cannot recover.

No. PhotoRestore does not use your photos to train its own models. Account photos are private and deleted after 24 hours. Runware, which runs the model, may keep temporary processing files for up to 7 days under its own policy.

This page explains how AI restoration works and what it can and cannot fix. If you are restoring antique, vintage, or fragile family prints, the old photo restoration page has scanning, handling and era-specific advice. The studio is the same on both.