Remove scratches from old photographs
Hairline marks, deep gouges, sleeve scuffs, and the cross-hatched scratches from carrying a photograph in a wallet for forty years — our AI removes them all.
From 10 credits ($1.00) per photo · 12-month validity
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 & ColourisedWhy scratches are hard for manual repair
A single hairline scratch is usually quick to clone out in Photoshop, but most old photographs have hundreds or thousands of scratches at various angles and depths. Manually painting them out is the most tedious part of photo restoration — easily an hour of work per print. Our AI does the same job in seconds by detecting and reconstructing every scratch in a single pass.
The trick is distinguishing actual scratches from things that look like scratches but are real details — eyelashes, fine fabric weave, pencil strokes in handwriting, a horse's mane. Our model is trained to preserve these features and only repair true surface damage.
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