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AI Photo Restoration for Old and Damaged Photos

Restore old and damaged photos online with AI. Upload your scan and Pixelcut's AI photo restoration repairs the scratches, tears, and fading automatically. Try it now!

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How to restore old photos online

  1. 1

    Upload your scan

    Click Upload photo and select a JPG, PNG, WebP, or HEIC file. On desktop, you can also drag and drop your scan anywhere on the screen.

  2. 2

    Restore photo automatically

    Sit back while Pixelcut's AI Photo Restorer detects the dust spots, scratches, and fading, then repairs them all automatically. No retouching work required.

  3. 3

    Download restored photo

    Your restored photo is ready! Download it at around two and a half times the original resolution, print it, or share it with the whole family.

Pixelcut's AI Photo Restorer brings back the prints nobody can replace. A grandparent's wedding portrait, a childhood snap that lived in a wallet for forty years, the only photo of someone who is gone. It works from a scan or a quick phone shot of the original. The family album stays exactly as it is while the restored copy goes to whoever wants one. Genealogists and family historians rely on it for exactly this. Upload your most precious print!

Photo restoration for old family album prints

The same beach donkey photo after photo restoration, with detail and contrast brought back

Repair scratches, tears, and stains on damaged photos with Pixelcut's AI Photo Restorer. Hairline scratches, dust baked into the scan, creases along old fold lines, water stains, and soft edges where the emulsion has lifted. One restoration photo run takes on all of it at once. Pixelcut analyzes the scan first and flags the dust spots and scratches it detected, then blends each repair into the surrounding grain until the fix disappears. Upload a damaged print and see the difference!

Repair scratches, tears and stains on damaged photos

The same camping photo after AI photo restoration, with the dust spots and speckling removed

Restore old photos without turning your relatives into strangers. Pixelcut works from what actually survives in your scan, which keeps the shape of a jaw and the set of the eyes exactly where they were. Where a print is torn or a corner is missing there is no original left, and it has to reconstruct what belongs there. Backgrounds and clothing come back convincingly, and faces keep the likeness your family recognizes. Upload an old portrait and check it yourself!

Restore old photos without changing the face

The same sepia portrait after AI photo restoration, with the tear, creases and scratches repaired

Bring back faded color and lost resolution. Old prints drift toward yellow and lose contrast, and most scans of them start out small. Pixelcut pulls the tones back toward where they started and rebuilds fine detail as it goes, and the file that returns is roughly two and a half times the original in each dimension. Print quality comes back with it, which is what you need to frame a restored photo. For blur on newer shots, use the AI photo enhancer.

Bring back faded color and lost resolution

The same 1950s photo after AI photo restoration, with the pink cast corrected to natural color

Online photo restoration works from wherever you are, with everything running in your browser. Upload a flatbed scan or a photo of the print from your phone, tablet, or laptop. There is no need to find a local photo restoration service or leave prints at a store counter. The file comes back big enough to print, not only to share on a screen. Upload your scan and get started!

Online photo restoration from any device

Restored photograph of a 19th century Paris street, with the sepia staining and foxing cleared by AI

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