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
That amber cast on old photos isn't dirt — it's chemistry. Acidic album pages, cheap fixer and decades of oxidation slowly stain prints yellow-brown until the whites are gone entirely. Our AI removes the cast intelligently: it neutralises the yellow while reading which tones were genuinely warm in the original scene, so restored skin doesn't turn grey and whites come back clean rather than clinical.
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 & ColourisedYellowing 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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