Remove the yellow cast from old photos

Decades of acidic paper, cigarette smoke, and sunlight turn black-and-white prints into a flat yellow-brown. Our AI restores neutral tones in a single click.

From 10 credits ($1.00) per photo · 12-month validity

A restored and colourised family photograph by Photo Repair Lab
Your photos stay private
No AI training on your images
Stripe-secured payments
Auto-deleted after 30 days

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 faded photograph before restorationOriginal
Faded, low contrast, age-yellowed
Same photograph restored to crisp black and whiteRestored
Clarity recovered · damage repaired
Same photograph restored and colourisedRestored & Colourised
Comprehensive restoration with colour

Yellowing is the most common age damage

Nearly every black-and-white photograph older than fifty years has some degree of yellowing. The cause is usually a combination of the photographic paper itself (older paper used lignin-based pulp, which yellows), the album it has been kept in (acidic mounting board accelerates the process), and environmental exposure (smoke, sunlight, humidity).

Removing yellow cast looks simple — just shift the white balance — but doing it well preserves the natural warm tones of the print (skin in B&W has a slightly warm cast, which should stay) without over-correcting into a cold, harsh result. Our AI strikes that balance automatically.

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Get 20 free credits when you sign up — enough for your first restoration on us.

No credit card required· 12-month credit validity on paid packs· Failed jobs auto-refunded