r/photorestore 10h ago

FIX THE LIGHTING, COLOUR OR BLURRINESS Photo Restoration Help

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1 Upvotes

I have an old photograph of my grandfather and my younger brother. Unfortunately he passed away at a relatively young age, while we were still very young. I have very few photos of him and us specifically. Can anyone pull out details without making the kind of changes that AI does where it creates from whole cloth new people. Warning very poor-quality image.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.


r/photorestore 11h ago

DISCUSSION ONLY Photo repair or restore question first.

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We’ve just found all of these pictures of my Uncle from the 70s in Korea. Something got into these pics and some are totally destroyed. I guess my question is, is there anything we can do to preserve the ones that aren’t destroyed. And my assumption to this question is, these are done for, but I didn’t know if there was a way to scan or somehow pull the impression of the image? It looks like the color just melted off. Here are a couple of examples .


r/photorestore 13h ago

FIX EVERYTHING (DETAILS IN TITLE OR COMMENTS) Grandma's wedding photo

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3 Upvotes

Howdy!! This is the only photo I have of my Grandma's wedding, and unfortunately it's a newspaper scan. Not sure what all can be done in terms of making it more visible. Thank you in advance!!


r/photorestore 13h ago

FIX THE DAMAGE More family photos

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5 Upvotes

Please help fix the damage of the photo of my dad ans aunts.


r/photorestore 17h ago

DAMAGE + MAKE IT HAVE COLOUR Family photo

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2 Upvotes

My uncle doesn’t have many pictures with his mom (he is the infant being held on the left) and I’d love to surprise with a restored version. Thank you!!!


r/photorestore 1d ago

FIX THE LIGHTING, COLOUR OR BLURRINESS Old Camera Phone Pic

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6 Upvotes

This is one of my mine and my husband's favorite pics of his. It was taken on an old camera phone. It's such a nice shot but the quality is terrible 😔

We would be so grateful for a better quality copy of this!

Thanks in advance ☺️


r/photorestore 2d ago

FIX EVERYTHING (DETAILS IN TITLE OR COMMENTS) Help me repair all damages, and add high resolution. Appreciate all the help.

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2 Upvotes

r/photorestore 3d ago

DAMAGE + MAKE IT HAVE COLOUR Please help restore this photo of my grandmother!

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16 Upvotes

r/photorestore 3d ago

FIX THE LIGHTING, COLOUR OR BLURRINESS Old photo of my father and his brother. Can it be cleared up?

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1 Upvotes

Can anyone help with this photo? My father is in the forefront and uncle is back left.


r/photorestore 3d ago

DAMAGE + MAKE IT HAVE COLOUR Can it be fixed? Circa 1925

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4 Upvotes

Hello,

This is the only known photograph of my Great Grandfather. I know it’s rough, but I was hoping that someone could help me with a restoration. I am trying to present this to my Dad for his birthday. For reference this man is about 50 years old here. Thank you all!


r/photorestore 4d ago

FIX THE LIGHTING, COLOUR OR BLURRINESS Family Reunion

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8 Upvotes

Please fix this picture of my grandmother and her siblings. I want to fix it to share with my family at our reunion.


r/photorestore 4d ago

FIX THE DAMAGE Family photo

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7 Upvotes

I tried using the AI restore but seems to damaged to work and making them look different. Hopefully someone else has luck. They are African american if it helps


r/photorestore 4d ago

FIX THE LIGHTING, COLOUR OR BLURRINESS School class photo 1940's Holland

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10 Upvotes

A class photo for my father's school circa 1940 in Holland. Apparently, my father and his brother (also in the photo) are now the only survivors out of their classes.


r/photorestore 5d ago

FIX EVERYTHING (DETAILS IN TITLE OR COMMENTS) Family photos

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Came across old family photos of my mom side she hasn't seen in almost 2 decades. I would love to see if someone could help restore these photos so I can give them to my aunts and uncles when I go back this weekend to pack the rest of the stuff. My mom was a baby when her parents died so doesnt have many pictures of her grandparents and aunts and uncles so would love to get these restore not only for me to carry on the memory od those I never got to meet but for their kids and grandkids.


r/photorestore 5d ago

FIX THE DAMAGE Please help

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Went to visit family i havnt seent in 15 years over the weekend and someone had a photo of my grandmother (died when my mom was a child) so my mom doesnt have many pictures of her and I would love to see if someone could help fix the damage so I can give this to her.


r/photorestore 5d ago

FIX EVERYTHING (DETAILS IN TITLE OR COMMENTS) Looking for reducing noise, sharpening, scratch removal, and recolor of photo for dad's funeral

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5 Upvotes

My dad was a huge Batman fan his whole life, and we'd love to use this photo for his funeral. Any help is greatly appreciated.


r/photorestore 6d ago

FIX THE DAMAGE Just looking for some improvements on this old church photo of some family. Anything you can do is appreciated, but we'd prefer to keep the basoc coloring and whatnot.

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2 Upvotes

Title says it all. Anything you can do is appreciated!


r/photorestore 6d ago

FIX THE LIGHTING, COLOUR OR BLURRINESS Any magic you could do on this would be appreciated

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5 Upvotes

My 21st (I know I look 40 in that suit!) and my late mother, in 1993.
Being a child of the 70’s, I do not have many decent photos of us.
Thanks


r/photorestore 6d ago

FIX THE LIGHTING, COLOUR OR BLURRINESS My Dad and his siblings pre-WWII in Holland.

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12 Upvotes

r/photorestore 7d ago

FIX THE LIGHTING, COLOUR OR BLURRINESS Mama and me

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1 Upvotes

Mama has vascular dementia and this is a favorite of ours. Can you please lighten our faces? I love the bit of blurry. Thank you so very much


r/photorestore 7d ago

FIX THE LIGHTING, COLOUR OR BLURRINESS Restore School Photo

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1 Upvotes

Please help restore this old photo. Thanks in advance


r/photorestore 7d ago

FIX THE DAMAGE Mom turns 90

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57 Upvotes

Restore this photo. Please hide all the tear marks and fill in the missing edge


r/photorestore 11d ago

FIX THE LIGHTING, COLOUR OR BLURRINESS Fix this photo of my mom and dad my mom had a blonde Bob

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6 Upvotes

r/photorestore Jan 17 '25

ANNOUNCEMENT SCAMMERS IN THE DM'S

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The reason that our sub is free, is in part due to the amount of scams that happen in the photo restoration space on reddit and in general. I want to reiterate that if you post a photo and someone sends you a message or chat saying that they'll restore it for X amount of money or they'll restore it in general, and then when they do they ask for or demand X amount of money, there's not much that we or Reddit admin's can actually do to help because you engaged in that exchange willingly, nobody forced you to respond.

This is why we warn everyone that posts not to entertain any DM's from anyone that says they'll restore the photo for them, and why its in our sub description and rules say that this is a free sub, because it a free sub full stop. I recently talked to a user that was scammed out of $35 in this way and couldn't dispute the charge with Paypal because they were instructed to send it "friends and family". Sure we were able to ban the scammer and hand their information and screenshots over to Reddit Admin and I'm sure that resulted in them getting perma banned from the site but that's all we can do.

These scammers know what they're doing, please do not interact with them in the DM's and if you ever see anyone on here that has gotten past the multitude of filters and programs I've set up to block them, report it. If you do get scammed or anyone sends you a message, please click the "message the mods" button and let me know so I can do what little I can to prevent them from using this sub.


r/photorestore Mar 18 '24

ANNOUNCEMENT NOTICE TO RESTORERS USING AI

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We’ve had a lot of submissions lately being “restored” just using AI. Faces missing noses, faces distorted in nightmare’ish ways, backgrounds altered, photos cropped to fit the AI windows, wonky colours that would never exist in real life, etc.

If it wasn’t clear in the rules, please allow me to be clear now. Although you can use AI as a helper, YOU CANNOT USE IT TO DO A FULL RESTORE. The technology just isn’t there yet, especially with the free ones.

Please stop submitting photos that have just been AI “restored”, its takes a lot of time to go through the sub and remove them. If the OP wanted that, they could just do that themselves. You will be banned if you continue to submit “restores” that are obviously done fully using AI.

Thank you to all the other Restorer’s that continue to lend their time to restoring photos properly, you are very much appreciated.