r/photorestore • • Mar 18 '24

ANNOUNCEMENT NOTICE TO RESTORERS USING AI

19 Upvotes

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.


r/photorestore • • Jan 17 '25

ANNOUNCEMENT SCAMMERS IN THE DM'S

12 Upvotes

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 • • 13h ago

FIX EVERYTHING (DETAILS IN TITLE OR COMMENTS) Our only picture

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4 Upvotes

Hi! Can someone restore this old picture of me and my siblings? This was a picture I took a decade ago. It's the only picture we have of all of us, and it's gone now. Would love to get this printed for my own family photo album. 🥹


r/photorestore • • 1d ago

FIX THE LIGHTING, COLOUR OR BLURRINESS Please help

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2 Upvotes

This is the only photo that my boyfriend has of him holding his son before he passed away from SIDS. Can someone please help clean it up, and make it clear and vivid?


r/photorestore • • 2d ago

FIX EVERYTHING (DETAILS IN TITLE OR COMMENTS) Please restore this photoshoot of me from the 2000's.

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1 Upvotes

Idk what's wrong with it, I just know it's blurry. Would appreciate the help. To add to this I genuinely don't have any photos of me as a child because my mother was a deadbeat and all the family photos got lost. Thanks .


r/photorestore • • 3d ago

FIX THE LIGHTING, COLOUR OR BLURRINESS Por favor podrian restaurar y dar color a esta foto, se los agradeceria mucho.

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4 Upvotes

r/photorestore • • 4d ago

FIX THE LIGHTING, COLOUR OR BLURRINESS A photo of my grandma

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5 Upvotes

One of the very few photos I have of my grandmother, any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Thank you!!


r/photorestore • • 4d ago

FIX THE LIGHTING, COLOUR OR BLURRINESS Photo for mother’s tombstone.

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4 Upvotes

Hello, this photo is for my mother’s tombstone. I would like to get it cleaned up, including color adjustment, sharpening, and lighting and anything else that is needed to make it look like the original thank you so much.


r/photorestore • • 5d ago

FIX EVERYTHING (DETAILS IN TITLE OR COMMENTS) film photo that didnt come out right :(

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1 Upvotes

is there anything that can be done?


r/photorestore • • 6d ago

FIX THE LIGHTING, COLOUR OR BLURRINESS Is it possible to restore this blurry photo

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7 Upvotes

We have tried everything but have been unsuccessful thus far, it is a photo of a good friend of mine and Alice Cooper from 20 years ago on a digital camera, his (on the right) hair is kind of a bangs slicked back which kind of washes out in this photo so I attached a better version for reference if that is helpful. Any help would be sincerely appreciated, I'd like to have it framed as a gift to him but this prints horribly and ai turns everyone into a monster. Thank you so much in advance for any help you can provide. .


r/photorestore • • 7d ago

FIX THE LIGHTING, COLOUR OR BLURRINESS Childhood picture

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3 Upvotes

This is the only surviving childhood picture I have of myself. I would really appreciate if someone can help me store it to high quality 🙏🥺

FYI I already tried with AI but it makes me (boy on the very left) look different. So trying here in a last-ditch effort.

Thanks


r/photorestore • • 9d ago

DAMAGE + MAKE IT HAVE COLOUR Restoring / colorising a photo of my great-grandparents as a present for my 80yo grandmother.

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9 Upvotes

Hi, I'm looking to get this picture restored and colorised. Thank you!


r/photorestore • • 10d ago

FIX THE LIGHTING, COLOUR OR BLURRINESS Old vacation photo

1 Upvotes

thank you in advance!


r/photorestore • • 11d ago

FIX THE LIGHTING, COLOUR OR BLURRINESS Only surviving photo of these relatives

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6 Upvotes

Respectfully asking if anyone can fix this so that the quality or clarity is better? I have a snippet of the family member on the far right I found from find a grave. Please


r/photorestore • • 12d ago

FIX EVERYTHING (DETAILS IN TITLE OR COMMENTS) Only surviving copy of my grandmother — looking for very conservative restoration, no AI facial reconstruction

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10 Upvotes

First of all thank you for providing such a kind service. My grandmother passed away and I'd love to have her portrait improved. This is the only copy I have; unfortunately there is no physical photograph available to rescan. I know the resolution is low. I’m mainly hoping for gentle color/contrast correction, noise cleanup and careful sharpening/upscaling where possible.

It is very important to me that her face stays faithful to the original. Please do not generate or reconstruct facial features or invent detail. I would much rather have the image remain a little soft than have her eyes, mouth, teeth, glasses, hair or face shape altered. Please let me know if you have any questions, thank you.


r/photorestore • • 13d ago

FIX EVERYTHING (DETAILS IN TITLE OR COMMENTS) Can these be restored?

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9 Upvotes

I grew up in boarding schools for the disabled and medical rehab facilities for children. It's the only picture I have with her and of that part of my life. Photos were not allowed due to privacy but this one was made by her mum.


r/photorestore • • 13d ago

FIX THE LIGHTING, COLOUR OR BLURRINESS Please restore thus old photo. Thank you

1 Upvotes

This is my wife's great great grand parents.Thank you for helping.


r/photorestore • • 14d ago

FIX EVERYTHING (DETAILS IN TITLE OR COMMENTS) Can anyone improve this photo?

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9 Upvotes

From the 1940’s. The original photo was 1”x1”. I’ve never seen one so tiny! I tried to scan it in and increase the size but it became very digitized. Can anyone improve the clarity?


r/photorestore • • 15d ago

DISCUSSION ONLY Is there any software out there that can straighten T-Shirt graphics?

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Long story short there's an old TShirt of mine that went out of reproduction a long time ago and I want to get the shirt scanned and reprinted. Knowing that the fabrics never really gonna be straight to a T post scanning, I wanna know if there's a software plugin or program that has a feature that can automatically align the graphic with a an XYZ axis kind of thing, and de-skew it too. I tried giving it a go on Photopea using liquify as a half-shot example but yeah.


r/photorestore • • 15d ago

FIX THE LIGHTING, COLOUR OR BLURRINESS Help/info on restoring this photo

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2 Upvotes

This print was in my mothers childhood home where I vacationed often, it holds memories and im sorry I didn’t take it years ago when the home was being sold. Ive googled and have only came across one other image of it on the internet so im here to see if anyone can restore it (fix the glare) or if that’s even a possibility. I’d love to be able to print it out and frame it

Thanks for any help or options!


r/photorestore • • 16d ago

FIX THE DAMAGE Please help restore this old damaged family photo

1 Upvotes

This is my wife's great grandmother. It is the only photo she has of her. Thank you in Advance.

Thank you


r/photorestore • • 16d ago

FIX THE LIGHTING, COLOUR OR BLURRINESS Four Cousins

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4 Upvotes

A relative shot this photo of a photo on a table cloth. I can crop it okay but and I'm having trouble with the blurriness and perspective (can't get the barn edge vertical while having the persons look skewed). Can anyone improve this?


r/photorestore • • 17d ago

FIX EVERYTHING (DETAILS IN TITLE OR COMMENTS) Please help restore this old damaged family photo

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9 Upvotes

I believe this was my grandmother when she was young. Can’t remember if she had blue or green eyes. Would really mean a lot as I’m trying to patch together my family tree. Dad left when I was a young child and when uncle had Alzheimer’s and passed. I found some old photos in a Box in his closet.


r/photorestore • • 18d ago

FIX THE LIGHTING, COLOUR OR BLURRINESS My late little brother

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Dear unknown friends,

this photo of my younger brother was taken in 1978 as he proudly shows off the Laverda 1000 motorbike of his uncle (with its signature silver tank). Here is a 1200dpi flatbed JPEG.

Only a few weeks after he was killed on his bike by a hit and run car. He was 15, I was 18.

My very old mother gave me the picture today in tears, as she forgot it in the direct sun this summer and was shocked to find it so washed away.

Original was a colour print. He had beautiful dark brown hair and his eyes were somewhere in between hazel and green. His name was Eric.

The backdrop is quite irrelevant, it was our holiday home with a wall and a hedge below it and a green window shutter.

I would be very grateful if anyone could manage to bring back some of what we remember.

The damages are not important to fix.

Here is a 24MB TIFF 1200 dpi flatbed scan
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/j2dg53z9jmglo65cpy2ik/Eric_LaverdaEric.tiff?rlkey=p2xwnvlwf7kgu9yedwl0o1cuh&st=7oi7lvyg&dl=0

Thank you from the bottom of my heart.


r/photorestore • • 18d ago

DAMAGE + MAKE IT HAVE COLOUR Would love to get this cleared up

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I'd love to get this photo of my Nana cleared up please and thank you 💚 (maybe even colorized if that's possible?)