Restore
Repair scratches, creases, dust and faded colour on a scanned photo using an AI model trained on old prints. It colourises as it restores — a black-and-white original comes back in colour, with no switch to keep it monochrome. It works from a flatbed or phone scan, not the camera negative, so scan at your scanner's highest resolution before uploading. Restoration runs a heavier model than the other AI tools, and that price does not move once you commit.
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Scan the physical photo and upload it — flat, in focus and at your scanner's highest resolution, since detail lost at the scan stage cannot be restored later.
The model repairs scratches, creases, dust and fading, and colourises a black-and-white original as part of the same pass — that is what it does, not a setting you choose, so decide before you upload whether you want that photo to stay monochrome.
Run and download. The restored scan comes back at the size you sent it, in colour either way, and a photo too damaged for the model to make sense of is flagged with a reason rather than charged for.
Questions
Will it bring back detail that is completely missing?
No — a large tear, a missing corner or a section bleached fully white has no underlying detail left for the model to work from, and it will not invent a face or scene that is not there in some form. It excels at scratches, creases, dust, mild fading and small tears where enough of the original image survives around the damage for the model to infer what belongs.
Will my black-and-white photo stay black and white?
No. Colourisation is part of what this model does to restore a photo, not a separate option, so a monochrome original always comes back in colour. If you want to keep a print monochrome, keep your own copy of the original scan rather than running it through this tool.
What does it cost?
A flat price per scan, and that is the whole price — it does not move once you have seen the total. A typical scanned print restores for several dozen credits, with very high-resolution scans running higher — the price follows the megapixel count of the scan and nothing else.
What resolution scan should I use?
As high as your scanner supports for the physical print size — six hundred DPI or higher for a standard four by six print is a reasonable target. A low-resolution scan limits how much detail the model has to work with around damaged areas, which shows up as softer results regardless of how good the repair itself is.