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Restore faces

Redraw the faces of an old, blurred or small photo sharp, with AI. The rest of the photo is left as it is.

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How it works

A face detector finds each face, and an AI model redraws it sharp and puts it back with a soft edge; nothing else in the photo changes. For old, blurred, small or noisy photos. The face is drawn from what faces look like: it resembles the person, but details such as the colour of the eyes can differ from the truth, so do not use it for an identity document or as evidence. A face that is already large and sharp is left alone.

You choose
  • Strength
  • Faces to find: Only clear ones, As usual, More, some not faces
It takes
One photo at a time, or a whole folder at once in the browser.
You get
The photo with its faces redrawn, and how many were.
Cost
Free

In the API

One request a photo, with an API key from the console. POST /v1/restore-faces

curl -X POST "https://api.photos.sh/v1/restore-faces?strength=100&min_score=0.6" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PHOTOS_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: image/jpeg" \
  --data-binary @photo.jpg \
  -o result.jpg

More tools to clean up

  • Remove backgroundCut the product out onto transparency, white, a colour, an image or its own photo blurred, and stage it on a canvas with a shadow.
  • Remove text and watermarksPaint out watermarks, captions, prices and shop names. The product’s own label stays.
  • Erase objectsPaint over a blemish, a price sticker or a stray object, and it is filled in from what is around it.
  • Select an objectClick the thing you want in a photo and get it cut out: one product among several, a part of one, or what the background remover did not pick.
  • Fix light and colourEven out dull, dark or tinted photos in one step, or set brightness, contrast, colour and sharpness yourself.
  • Hide facesBlur, pixelate or cover every face in a photo before you publish it.
  • Remove noiseClean the grain of a dark shot and the blocks of heavy JPEG compression out of a photo, with AI.
  • ColouriseGive a black-and-white photo colour, with AI. The colours are a believable guess, not a record of what was there.
  • UpscaleEnlarge a small photo with AI, keeping edges and text sharp.

Try it on your own photos.

Create an account, buy a pack when you need one, and drop your first photos into Restore faces.

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