Restore old family portraits
Group portraits with many faces are the hardest subject in photo restoration — and our AI handles every face individually, in seconds.
From 10 credits ($1.00) per photo · 12-month validity
The formal family portrait — everyone scrubbed, arranged by height, holding still — was often the only photograph a household had taken for years, which makes each one irreplaceable. They are also technically demanding to restore: a dozen faces at different distances, each needing to stay recognisably themselves. Our AI restores group portraits face by face, recovering grandparents and great-aunts with enough fidelity that relatives can finally put names to everyone in the frame.
How it works
From upload to download in three simple steps.
1. Upload
Upload a JPG, PNG or WebP up to 10 MB. The clearer the original scan, the better the result.
2. AI processes
Our AI analyses your photo and applies the appropriate model. Most jobs finish in under a minute.
3. Download
Compare before / after, then download the high-resolution result. Your originals are never used to train AI models.
See the difference
A faded family scan repaired and colourised by Photo Repair Lab — no slider tricks, just the real result.
Original
Restored
Restored & ColourisedGroup photos are not just bigger — they are harder
A solo portrait has one face to get right. A family portrait might have fifteen — each at a different distance from the camera, with different lighting, different sharpness, and different damage. Lower-quality AI tools focus restoration effort on the most prominent face and let the others soften into grey blobs. The result looks worse than the original because the discrepancy between sharp and soft faces is jarring.
Our restoration handles every face in the photograph individually, then composites the result back into the original scene. Aunts, uncles, grandparents in the back row, children sitting on the floor — every person comes out with the same quality of detail. The result feels like a coherent family photograph, not a single-subject restoration that happens to have other people in it.
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