AI Photo Restoration

Manual restoration is researched — a restorer knows what a 1940s uniform looked like, checks records, and repaints by hand. AI restoration reconstructs from what is visible in your scan plus patterns learned from archival photographs. AI is faster and much cheaper; manual is more faithful on anything historically specific.

If the subject is still recognisable, the tool can usually produce a presentable image. As damage crosses from covering content to destroying it — burned areas, cut-out faces, mould-eaten emulsion — the output becomes an interpretation rather than a recovery. Check those before printing.

No, and we do not offer it. Everything in a restoration comes from the file you upload plus general learned structure. Reconstructing a specific person's face from nothing would be fabrication — that work belongs to a commissioned artist working from other photos of that person.

For family printing, usually yes — download at the highest resolution you need and check the faces and text before printing. For archive or publication, no: an AI restoration is a derivative, not a record. Keep the original scan untouched and label the restored file as restored.

It works, but stacking restorations compounds artefacts — each pass slightly smooths grain, and after two or three the photo looks polished and dead. Always go back to the original scan rather than restoring a restored file.