Photo Restoration
Upload a faded, torn, or degraded photograph and the AI repairs scratches, recovers lost facial detail, and corrects color decay, returning the image to a printable, shareable state.
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How It Works
- Upload your old or damaged photo
- AI detects and repairs damage
- Download the restored image
Tips for Best Results
- Use high-res scans (300+ DPI)
- Enable face enhancement for portraits
- Works on scratches, tears and fading
Why Choose Our AI Photo Restoration
Scratch Removal
The model maps scratches, tears, water stains, and fold creases across the image and fills them with texture that matches the surrounding area, leaving no visible repair lines.
Face Enhancement
When face enhancement is enabled, CodeFormer applies dedicated facial landmark reconstruction to recover eyes, skin texture, and expression detail that blur or age have erased, even in small or low-resolution portrait crops.
Artifact Cleanup
JPEG blocking, scan noise, and digital grain are removed without blurring real edges. The output stays sharp rather than smoothed over.
Color Recovery
Yellowing from age, magenta or cyan drifts from chemical decay, and bleached-out highlights are corrected back toward a natural white balance and tonal range.
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CodeFormer Restoration Engine
Our photo restoration runs on CodeFormer, a Transformer-based model trained specifically for blind face restoration. It operates in two passes: a background repair pass that addresses global damage such as scratches and noise, followed by a face-specific pass that reconstructs structural detail in facial regions.
CodeFormer's fidelity parameter controls the balance between enhancement strength and adherence to the original image. A lower fidelity setting applies more aggressive correction; a higher setting keeps the output closer to what the photograph looked like before degradation. The combination lets the model handle everything from lightly aged prints to heavily damaged archival scans.
Frequently Asked Questions
When you upload a photo, the model scans the entire image for damage signatures: scratches, noise patterns, color shifts, and degraded facial regions. It runs a background repair pass first, then a second pass focused specifically on any faces it detects. The restored image is returned as a high-quality file you can download directly.
JPG, PNG, and WebP files are all accepted. For physical photos, a flatbed scanner at 300 DPI or higher gives the model the most detail to work with. Smartphone snapshots of old prints also work, though the scanner approach produces noticeably cleaner results on heavily damaged originals.
Most photos finish in 15 to 45 seconds. Images with multiple faces or very high resolution take slightly longer because the face enhancement pass runs separately for each detected face. A progress indicator shows while the job runs.
Uploaded photos are processed securely and are not shared with third parties or used for model training. You keep full control of both the original and the restored file.
The output matches the resolution of your upload and is clean enough for print. Faces in particular see a sharp improvement: eyes and skin texture that looked smeared in the original are reconstructed with visible structure. The level of restoration depends on how much damage existed in the source, but even heavily degraded photos return with usable detail.
The interface processes one photo at a time. Download your result, then upload the next photo to continue through a collection. Each job runs independently, so a difficult image with heavy damage will not affect the quality of the next one.
No editing knowledge needed. Upload the photo, choose whether to enable face enhancement, and click Restore. The AI handles everything from damage detection to color correction without any adjustment sliders or manual input from you.
Restored photos download as high-quality image files ready for printing, framing, or sharing. No conversion needed before using them in photo books, social media, or professional print services.
Yes. You are restoring your own photographs, so you retain all rights to both the originals and the restored versions. The AI processes your existing images; it does not generate new content or create competing claims on the photos.
Manual restoration in Photoshop requires cloning, healing, selective color correction, and separate retouching passes for faces. A single damaged family portrait can take an experienced editor an hour or more. The CodeFormer model runs all of those steps automatically in under a minute, and it is particularly strong on facial reconstruction, which is the hardest part to do by hand.
Free Photo Restoration: Repair Old and Damaged Photos vs Other Methods
| Feature | Luxoret AI | Manual / Traditional | Other Tools |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost per Use | $0.02 | $50-$200+ per project | $0.15-$0.30 per image |
| Speed | Results in seconds | Hours with Photoshop | Minutes per image |
| Skill Required | None — fully automated | Professional editing skills | Some learning curve |
| Quality | AI-powered, photorealistic | Depends on editor skill | Template-based, limited |
| Accessibility | Browser-based, any device | Desktop software required | App or desktop required |
| Revisions | Unlimited instant retries | Time-consuming redo | Limited by credits |
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