Photo Restoration: Advanced Guide to Fixing Damaged Photos with AI

Old photos fade, tear, and get damaged over time. Restoring them used to require a professional photo restorer. AI can now restore damaged photos in seconds — and the results are often better than manual restoration. Here's the advanced guide on Crevisto.

What the Photo Restoration tool does

The Photo Restoration tool fixes damaged photos. The result includes:

• Tear repair — torn photos are seamlessly repaired
• Fade correction — faded colors are restored
• Scratch removal — scratches and marks are removed
• Detail enhancement — lost details are recovered
• Face restoration — blurry faces are sharpened
• Colorization — black-and-white photos can be colorized

How to restore a photo

1. Visit the Photo Restoration tool

2. Upload your damaged photo

3. Click "Generate"

4. Download your restored photo

Tips for best results

• Scan at high resolution — higher resolution means better restoration
• Scan flat — avoid glare and distortion
• Include the full photo — don't crop before restoring
• Generate multiple times — each restoration is unique
• Try different settings — experiment with colorization

Using the CLI

curl -fsSL https://crevisto.com/install.sh | sh
crevisto trial
crevisto generate photo-restoration --input photo=./old-photo.jpg --output ./restored.webp

Batch processing

for photo in ./old-photos/*.jpg; do
  crevisto generate photo-restoration --input photo="$photo" --output "./restored/$(basename "$photo" .jpg).webp"
done

Advanced techniques

Two-pass restoration

For severely damaged photos, try a two-pass approach:

1. First pass — restore the photo to fix major damage
2. Second pass — use the restored photo as input for detail enhancement

crevisto generate photo-restoration --input photo=./old-photo.jpg --output ./pass1.webp
crevisto generate image-upscaler --input photo=./pass1.webp --scale 2 --output ./final.webp

Colorization

For black-and-white photos, colorization can bring them to life:

crevisto generate photo-restoration --input photo=./bw-photo.jpg --colorize true --output ./color.webp

Use cases

• Family photos — restore old family photos for preservation
• Historical photos — restore historical photos for archives
• Genealogy — restore photos for family history research
• Gifts — restored photos as gifts for family
• Social media — share restored family photos
• Print — print restored photos for display

Try it free

5 free credits, no credit card required. Visit crevisto.com to get started.

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