Most families have a shoebox of prints that are scratched, creased or slowly turning orange. Scanning them is easy; fixing them by hand in a photo editor is not. Retouching a single torn portrait can take an evening of clone-stamping and color correction.
An AI old photo restorer shortcuts that work. On bimg.ai you upload a scan or even a phone snapshot of a print, and the model repairs the damage in one pass: it fills in cracks and dust spots, sharpens soft faces, corrects the yellow or magenta cast that old film develops, and can optionally colorize black-and-white images.
A few tips that help in practice:
- Scan at the highest resolution you can, even if the print is small. More pixels give the model more detail to work with.
- Crop out the album page or scanner bed before uploading so the tool focuses on the photo itself.
- Compare the result with the original at 100% zoom, especially around eyes and hands, and keep both versions in your archive.
- For very large prints, run the restored image through an upscaler afterwards if you plan to reprint it.
Restoration is also a nice way to involve relatives: older family members can help identify people and places once the faces are clear again. Because the tool runs in the browser and new users get free credits, it is easy to test on a handful of photos before working through a whole album.
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