GPT-IMGDrop in a scan or a phone shot of an old print. Damage is repaired and natural color is added in about 30 seconds, or pick Restore only to keep the original black-and-white or sepia tone.
Upload an old black-and-white photo to repair scratches, cracks, and missing patches and add natural color, with faces and framing kept. 1K to 4K output.
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Both modes repair the same damage. The only choice is whether the result gets color or keeps the tone it was printed in.
Repairs damage on old black-and-white photos and adds natural, period-appropriate color while keeping faces and framing.
Best for portraits and family groups you want to see as they looked in life.
Removes scratches, cracks, stains, and missing patches from old photos while keeping the original black-and-white or sepia tone.
Best for archive copies, framing, and prints where the sepia is part of the charm.
Every example below is a public-domain photograph from the 1860s to the 1910s, run through this page on 2 November 2026. Nothing was retouched afterwards.
This portrait had lost whole flakes of emulsion around the head and collar. The gaps are rebuilt from the surrounding texture, the stains are lifted, and the drawing of the face is left exactly where it was.
A 1910s glass-plate negative with scratches along the left edge and a pencilled name across the top. After colorizing, the scratches are gone but the black border, the handwritten caption, and the out-of-focus ballpark behind him are all still the original photograph.
In an eight-person family portrait from 1906 the father keeps his beard shape, the mother her centre parting, and the youngest girl her pale curls. Clothing gets plausible period colors rather than one tint washed over the whole frame.
This tintype soldier had dark corrosion across both eyes. The restorer draws a believable face in that space, keeping the hat, beard, and uniform, but no tool can know what the hidden parts really looked like. Treat a heavily damaged face as an informed guess and keep the original next to it.
Switch to Restore only and the repair happens without any color: an 1899 studio portrait comes back cleaner and sharper in the same warm brown it was printed in. Use it for archives, framing, or when the family would rather not see a guessed palette.
Asked loosely to colorize, the underlying model replaced the empty background of the ballplayer photo with an invented stadium and cropped the border away. The fixed instruction this page sends tells it to keep the background, frame, writing, and grain, which is the version on the right.
On a face drawn from very little information, color can make it look younger and smoother than the source, closer to a modern photo. It happened on this badly flaked portrait. When that matters, run Restore only, or compare with the slider before you download.
For the jobs that come before or after a restore.
Upscale a restored photo further for large prints, at 5 credits a pass.
Clear a date stamp or an old caption you do not want to keep before restoring.
Fix one detail the restorer could not, such as a missing hand or a torn corner.
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Practical details for this generator page.
New accounts get 30 free credits, which covers two restores at 1K. Results on free credits carry a small watermark and are for personal use; any credit pack or subscription removes the watermark.
Both repair scratches, stains, cracks, creases, and missing patches. Restore + colorize then adds natural color; Restore only keeps the black-and-white or sepia tone of the original print. They cost the same.
They are plausible, not documented. The model picks colors that suit the period and the materials it can see, such as wool uniforms or lace collars, but a black-and-white photo does not record what color anything was. If you know a detail, such as eye color, mention it to the family rather than trusting the result.
It is told to keep every face, age, and expression as it is, and in our tests clear faces stayed recognisable. Faces with heavy damage over the eyes or mouth are partly rebuilt, and color can make them look smoother than the source. Use the before and after slider, and keep your original.
A flatbed scan at 600 dpi is ideal. With a phone, lay the print flat in daylight, hold the camera straight above it, and avoid glare and your own shadow. Crop out the table or album page around the print before uploading.
Creases, fold lines, small tears, and flaked areas are repaired. If a large piece is missing, such as half a face or a whole corner with a person in it, the restorer fills it with something plausible, which may not match what was there.
Uploads and results are saved in your account History so you can download them again. Restored family photos are never shown in the public gallery.
Use the prompt panel above with the same account, credits, and history workflow.
