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Free web tool that restores old, damaged photos with AI and can also colorize, sharpen and upscale them.
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Picsart Photo Restoration
AI old photo restoration that repairs scratches, fixes blur and fading, and boosts resolution in one tap, inside the Picsart editor.
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Overview
Picsart Photo Restoration repairs old photos with AI: scratches and creases, faded color and discoloration, soft faces and blurry scans, handled in one automatic pass with the AI Enhance button. Afterwards the same editor colorizes the result, spot-cleans with the object eraser, upscales it, and batch mode restores whole stacks.
It runs on the web, Windows, iPhone and Android. Restoration works on Picsart's free plan, which shows ads, and some free AI outputs carry a watermark. Pro and Ultra subscriptions, billed monthly or yearly, remove both.
Key features
✓Repairs scratches, creases & stains
✓Fixes faded color & discoloration
✓Sharpens faces & blurry scans
✓One-tap AI Enhance pass
✓Batch restoration for whole albums
✓Colorizer, object eraser & upscaler in the same editor
When to use
Use Picsart Photo Restoration when old photos need rescuing:
- You are digitizing family albums: faded, scratched prints restore in one pass, and batch mode takes the whole stack.
- You have a blurry or low-resolution scan that needs to look presentable in an archive or a family chat.
- You want the color era back: the colorizer sits in the same editor for black-and-white photos after repair.
- You see leftover spots or stains after the pass, which the object eraser spot-cleans.
When NOT to use
Skip Picsart Photo Restoration if any of these describe you:
- Your photo is precious and badly damaged: torn faces, missing corners. Dedicated photo restoration tools or manual repair go deeper than an automatic pass.
- You only want colorization, no repair. A dedicated photo colorizer is the direct route.
- You want watermark-free results at volume without a subscription. Some free AI outputs carry a watermark.
Frequently asked questions
For light use, yes. Picsart has a free plan that shows ads, and some free AI outputs carry a watermark. Picsart sells two subscriptions, Pro and Ultra, billed monthly or yearly, which remove the ads and watermarks and unlock the premium library.
Scratches, creases, stains, faded and discolored color, soft faces and overall blur in old prints and scans. It is an automatic pass, so you do not choose repairs individually.
Yes. The batch editor runs restoration across a set of scans in one go, which is the sane route for a whole album.
Yes, as a second step: restore first, then the colorizer in the same editor adds the color.
No. You upload a copy of the scan and download the restored version as a new file, so the file on your own computer stays as it was.
Expect limits: an automatic pass rebuilds what it can recognize, and torn or missing areas may need manual work. Trying it on the free plan shows where a photo lands before paying.
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