UPSAMPLER

AI Image Upscaler

Restore Old and Blurry Faces with AI

Bring faces back in old, blurry, or damaged photos. Small, low-resolution faces are rebuilt, eyes, skin, and hair the original never captured, while the rest of the photo sharpens with them.
Scale
Up to 6x
Ceiling
100 MP
Faces
Restored
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Before
Black-and-white portrait of a bearded man restored from a blurred, compressed copy, with beard and skin detail recovered before enhancement and upscaling
After
Black-and-white portrait of a bearded man restored from a blurred, compressed copy, with beard and skin detail recovered after enhancement and upscaling
IN 512 x 640P IMAGEOUT 2048 x 2560
Faithful models

Restore Faces with Enhance Faces

The faithful models enlarge the photo while the Enhance Faces option restores the small, low-resolution faces the original never captured.

Before
Portrait of a red-haired woman with freckles brought back from a blurred, compressed copy, skin and hair detail recovered before enhancement and upscaling
After
Portrait of a red-haired woman with freckles brought back from a blurred, compressed copy, skin and hair detail recovered after enhancement and upscaling

See What Comes Back

The upscaler itself, loaded with real results. Zoom in on the eyes and hairline to see how much a damaged face actually recovers.

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What Enhance Faces Actually Does

Time, storage, and old cameras all take facial detail first. A scanned print from the seventies, an early phone photo, or the one surviving picture of a grandparent usually has a face that is a few soft pixels wide. Enhance Faces restores small, low-resolution faces during the upscale: eyes, nose, mouth, skin, and hair are rebuilt from what is left and blended back while the rest of the photo sharpens. A face that already fills the frame is left to the upscale itself. There is no separate restoration step to learn.

How to Restore a Photo in Three Steps

  1. Upload the scan or photo to the upscale tool.
  2. Turn on Enhance Faces and choose a scale. 2x is enough for screens, 4x for a reprint.
  3. Run it and download the high-resolution result.

Settings That Work

  • Model: any faithful model, P Image Upscale is the default, with Enhance Faces on
  • Scale: 2x to share, 4x to reprint
  • Enhance Faces: on, this is the whole point of the page

Colorize Black-and-White Photos

Colorization lives in the free AI image editor or the full image editor in your account. Describe the result, for example "colorize this portrait with natural skin tones," then bring the colored photo here for the face pass.

When the Face Should Not Change

A recent, already-sharp portrait that only needs more pixels needs no Enhance Faces at all. The option only acts on small faces, and a face that fills the frame is enlarged exactly as it is, which is what headshots and professional work need. The portrait photo enhancer covers that workflow.

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Create and Enhance Images and Videos

Bring old, blurry, and damaged faces back to life in minutes. Upload a photo, enable Enhance Faces, and download a crisp high-resolution result. No subscription required, buy credits once and use them across every tool.

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