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Free AI Old Photo Restoration | No Sign-Up

Repair scratches, tears, stains, and fading in old photos with AI. The whole print is restored while faces and details stay true to the original. No sign-up, free daily usage.

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Drop a scan or photo of an old print and press Restore Photo. The AI removes scratches, tears, creases, stains, and dust, repairs damaged areas, and brings back faded contrast, keeping the photo black and white.

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01 · Image Upscaling

Upscale Images to 100 MP

Add real detail as you enlarge.

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Japanese supermarket enhanced, demonstrating the AI art upscaler before enhancement and upscaling
After
Japanese supermarket enhanced, demonstrating the AI art upscaler after enhancement and upscaling
02 · Image Generation

Generate Images in 4K

Turn a prompt or a reference image into anything from photoreal shots to illustration.

03 · Image Editing

Edit Images at Full Resolution

Change anything with a text prompt and get the result back at your photo's full size.

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Skater girl before and after editing before enhancement and upscaling
After
Skater girl before and after editing after enhancement and upscaling
04 · Video Generation

Generate Videos in Full HD

Create clips from a prompt or bring a still image to life.

05 · Video Upscaling

Upscale Videos to 4K

Sharpen edges, textures, and on-screen text frame by frame, with stable motion.

What the restoration model repairs

Old prints fail in familiar ways, and Qwen Image Edit, the model behind this page, has learned to recognize them: scratches crossing a face, a crease through the sky, foxing stains on a border. It repairs each region to match what the undamaged photo would have shown. Fading and lost contrast come back at the same time, so a washed-out print returns with deep blacks and clean highlights.

A black-and-white photo stays black and white: the tool is deliberately tuned not to colorize. If you want color as a second step, run the restored result through the free AI photo colorizer, which is built exactly for that.

Whole-print restoration vs face restoration

This page repairs the entire print: background, clothing, borders, and faces together. If your photo is not damaged but the faces are soft, blurry, or low-resolution, the free AI face restoration is the sharper tool: it runs a dedicated face model (GFPGAN) that rebuilds facial detail specifically. The two combine well, restore the damage here first, then enhance the faces there.

A complete workflow for old photos

For a family archive scan, the full pipeline looks like this: restore the damage on this page, optionally enhance faces and add color with the linked tools, then enlarge the result with the free AI image upscaler for printing or framing. For heirloom-quality output, Upsampler's premium upscaler reaches 100MP with face enhancement, using one-time credits with no subscription.

What to expect

Restoration is reconstruction: where damage destroyed detail completely, the AI fills in what plausibly belongs there. On ordinary damage, scratches, spots, creases, fading, the result is usually faithful to the original scene. Where a tear removed half a face, inspect the reconstruction critically. The tool accepts JPG, PNG, and WebP up to 4096px per side, and the restored image is re-rendered at about one megapixel; for prints, bring the resolution back up with the upscaler linked above. Scans are processed transiently and discarded once the restoration is delivered.

Frequently Asked Questions

Scan or photograph the print, upload it above, and press Restore Photo. The AI removes scratches, tears, stains, and dust, repairs damaged areas, and restores faded contrast, then shows a before/after slider. No sign-up, no watermark.

Scratches, tears, creases, folds, stains, foxing, dust, and fading. It repairs both small blemishes and larger damaged regions by reconstructing what the photo showed underneath.

No, deliberately. Black-and-white photos come back black and white with restored contrast. If you want color, run the restored result through the free AI photo colorizer as a second step.

The model is instructed to keep faces, clothing, and composition exactly the same, and on typical damage it does. Where damage destroyed a face outright, the AI reconstructs a plausible version, so compare against other photos of the person for anything important.

This tool repairs the whole print: background, clothing, borders, and faces together. The face restoration tool runs a dedicated face model for photos that are merely blurry or low-resolution rather than damaged. For a damaged photo with soft faces, use both in sequence.

It comes back around one megapixel, smaller than most scans. For printing, restore the size afterwards with the free AI image upscaler.

No. There is no sign-up and no watermark; restorations draw on a daily per-visitor allowance of shared free GPU time, and connecting a free Hugging Face account extends it.

No. Each upload is processed transiently on the GPU for the restoration, expires automatically, and is never placed in a gallery or used for training.

No. Your download is the clean, full-quality result with no watermark, and you never need an account or email to get it.

Yes. The tools run open models, and none of their licenses claims any rights over the output you generate, so the model puts no claim on what you make, in commercial work or anywhere else. What the model does not decide is your right to the material you feed it: anything you upload stays subject to whoever holds the rights in it, and the usual limits apply either way. Do not use the tools to create illegal content, to impersonate real people, or to infringe someone else's rights.

No. Uploads and prompts are screened by an automated safety filter before anything runs, and sexually explicit content and anything involving minors are blocked and cannot be unlocked on any plan. Our Terms of Service list the full set of prohibited content.