Evoto Old Photo Restoration

Evoto's automatic repair for old photos: it finds the scratches, tears, stains and fading, rebuilds the damaged areas, and can add colour to a black and white picture.

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Overview

Evoto Old Photo Restoration repairs a damaged print in one automatic pass. The AI finds the damage, scratches, creases, tears, stains, mold and fading, and rebuilds those areas from what surrounds them. In the same pass it sharpens a blurred face, revives colour that has drifted, and can add colour to a black and white photo. You do not mark the damage yourself.

It is one feature of Evoto, an AI editor for photographers, so a restored photo carries on into its retouching and batch tools. It runs in a browser and in the Evoto app for Windows, Mac, iPad and phones. The browser tool gives three free runs once you sign in. New accounts get 50 free credits, and exporting from the app spends one.

Key features

✓Finds scratches, creases, tears & stains
✓Repairs mold damage & missing areas
✓Revives faded & discoloured photos
✓Colorizes black and white pictures
✓Rebuilds blurred facial detail
✓Restores texture in skin, clothing & background
✓Reads JPEG, PNG & WebP
✓Runs automatically in seconds
✓Three free browser runs after signing in
✓Carries into Evoto's editing & batch tools

When to use

Use Evoto Old Photo Restoration if:

  • You have a photo with physical damage: scratches, creases, tears, stains or mold. That is the specific thing this tool is built to find and rebuild.
  • You have a photo whose colours have faded or drifted with age. It revives faded colour rather than only sharpening detail.
  • You have a black and white photo and want a colour version. Colorizing happens in the same pass as the repair.
  • You care most about the faces, and they have gone soft. It sharpens and rebuilds facial detail as part of the restoration.
  • You want to try before paying. The browser tool gives three free runs once you sign in.
  • You already use Evoto for portrait work. The restored photo carries on into the same editor and its batch tools.

When NOT to use

Skip Evoto Old Photo Restoration if any of these describe you:

  • You want to choose what gets repaired. The pass is automatic, with no brush to point at the damage.
  • You know the real colours. The AI infers colour from the picture, so it cannot know a dress was green. Every photo colorizer shares that limit.
  • Your photo is only soft rather than damaged. If there are no scratches, tears or fading, a plain enhancer is simpler.
  • You want a result without making an account. The browser tool makes you sign in before it will run. PicWish Photo Restoration and other photo restoration tools start with less setup.
  • The photo is destroyed rather than damaged. The AI rebuilds from what it can still read, so where the picture is gone, there is nothing to work from.

Frequently asked questions

The browser tool gives three free restorations once you sign in, and you can download those results. After that you spend a credit when you export a photo, and new accounts get 50 free credits. Restoring and looking at the result never costs anything.

Yes, and it happens in the same pass. The AI repairs the damage and adds colour together, since colouring a scratched, stained photo would colour the damage too. The colours are worked out from the picture itself, so they are a plausible version rather than a record of the real ones.

Evoto names scratches, creases, stains, mold, tears and fading. The AI rebuilds those areas using what surrounds them, so a scratch across a plain wall works and a tear through the middle of a face does not. Everything it puts back is generated from what is still readable in the scan.

No. The restoration runs in a browser, and it is also in the Evoto app for Windows, Mac, iPad and phones if you already use it for retouching. The desktop app is the full Evoto editor, which suits a restored photo that needs more editing. Either way the AI runs on Evoto's servers, so a connection is needed.

Evoto is built around batch work for photographers, and its editing settings can be synced across many images. Restoration itself is a per-photo repair, since the damage on each print is different, and each photo you export spends its own credit.

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