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!
How to restore old photos online
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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.
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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.
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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.
Photo restoration for old family album prints
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
Repair scratches, tears and stains on damaged photos
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
Restore old photos without changing the face
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
Bring back faded color and lost resolution
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
Online photo restoration from any device
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
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Frequently Asked Questions
Often, yes! Artificial intelligence photo restoration reconstructs what belongs in a torn area by reading the image around it. Backgrounds and clothing recover especially well. Heavily damaged faces remain the hardest case.
Pixelcut works from what survives in your scan rather than inventing features. Where damage covers part of a face the reconstruction is an estimate. Check the result against another photo.
Scratches, tears, creases, dust spots, stains, and faded or yellowed tones. A restoration photo run detects whatever is in your scan. If a photo is undamaged and only small, use the image upscaler.
Yes! Photo restoration rebuilds detail as it repairs the damage. Your file comes back around two and a half times the original in each dimension, which is plenty for printing.
Yes! You can colorize photos in the same pass as restoration. An old monochrome print comes back repaired and in full color rather than needing two separate runs.
They are processed securely and are not shared. That matters especially for family heirlooms, where the scan you upload is often the only surviving copy of the original print.
Upload JPG, PNG, WebP, or HEIC. A flatbed scan gives the AI the most detail to work with, though a phone shot of the print works too, with no conversion needed.
Each photo gets its own run right now, which keeps old photo restoration targeted to the damage the restoration tool actually finds on that particular print rather than one generic pass.
Prints with damage around the edges recover most fully, since the surrounding image gives the AI plenty of context. Photos stored flat in albums usually beat loose prints, which pick up more surface wear.
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