The photo in the shoebox, rescued.
Old prints fade, crack, yellow and tear. A phone photo or flatbed scan of one is enough to start: the restorer removes creases, scratches, stains and dust, rebuilds soft detail in faces and fabric, and evens out the color cast without inventing a different picture. The colorizer takes a black-and-white image and gives skin, hair, clothing and sky believable, period-appropriate tones.
Both tools are built for family archives, memorial displays, genealogy projects and anyone who wants the one surviving photo of a grandparent to hang on a wall. Once restored, an image can be enlarged to print size on the same canvas, and the original stays in your library for comparison.
Three results from restore tools.
Every restore tool
Each one opens the Studio with this mode selected.
Who uses this mode
Good to know
- Do I need a scanner?
- No. Lay the print flat in even daylight, avoid glare and shadows, and photograph it straight on with your phone. A scan gives a little more detail, but a careful phone photo restores well.
- Will the restorer change faces?
- It repairs damage and recovers detail that is faintly there; it does not swap in a new face. Where a tear removes part of a face entirely, the tool fills it in the most plausible way, so check the result against the original with the Compare button.
- How do I get a print-size file?
- After restoring, use Upscale from the toolbar above the canvas. 16 megapixels covers an A4 or 8×10 print comfortably; 32 megapixels is enough for a poster.
The other modes