Photo Restore brings damaged, faded, and aged photographs back to life. It removes scratches, tears, creases, and stains. It sharpens blurry details and enhances facial features. It fixes faded, yellowed, or discoloured areas. And for black-and-white or sepia photos, it adds historically accurate full colour. You can process a single photo or up to 10 at once in batch mode.
The restoration skill handles everything in one pass — physical damage, colour fading, and facial detail — with three intensity levels to match the severity of the damage. The colorize skill is purpose-built for converting monochrome photos to colour, with an era hint parameter that guides period-accurate colour choices. Both skills accept multiple images for batch workflows.
What you can do
- Remove physical damage from photos — scratches, tears, creases, and stains
- Enhance and sharpen facial details in old portraits
- Fix faded, yellowed, and discoloured images
- Convert black-and-white or sepia photos to full colour
- Choose light, standard, or heavy restoration intensity
- Output at 1K, 2K, or 4K resolution
- Process up to 10 images in a single batch call
Who it's for
Families digitising old photo albums, archivists preserving historical collections, genealogists restoring ancestor portraits, photographers handling client restoration requests, and anyone who has inherited damaged photographs they want to preserve.
How to use it
- Use restore_photo with an image URL to fix physical damage, fading, and faces in one pass
- Set enhancement_level to light for minor fixes, standard for typical old photos, or heavy for severely damaged images
- Use colorize_photo specifically for converting black-and-white or sepia photos to colour
- Pass an era_hint like "1940s" or "Victorian" for historically accurate colour palette choices
- Pass an array of URLs instead of a single URL to process up to 10 images at once
Getting started
No setup required — pass any publicly accessible image URL to start restoring.
