PicWish Photo Restoration

PicWish Photo Restoration repairs an old photo in one automatic pass. You give it a scan of a print, and the AI works on creases, cracks, stains, fading, blur and grain together. It rebuilds detail in faces, and it can add colour to a black and white picture in the same pass. You pick a damage level of mild, moderate or severe rather than brushing over anything.

It runs in a browser and in the PicWish Android app. The Windows and Mac app is a different batch tool without it. You get a few free uses, then downloading a high-resolution result needs the Pro subscription or purchased credits.

Use PicWish Photo Restoration if:

• You have a printed photo that is creased, scratched or stained, and you want one pass to deal with all of it rather than a repair tool you have to learn.
• You have a black and white photo and want a colour version, without going to a separate photo colorizer.
• The faces are the point of the photo. The face enhancement step rebuilds facial detail rather than sharpening the whole image evenly.
• Your photo is damaged in a big way. The severe mode is there for pictures a mild clean-up will not reach.
• You want to print the result. The tool can enlarge the restored photo up to 2x or 4x.
• You want to check whether AI can do anything for a photo before you pay. The free uses let you see the result first.

Skip PicWish Photo Restoration if any of these describe you:

• You have a box of photos to get through. The web tool takes one photo at a time. Other photo restoration tools handle batches directly.
• You want to decide what gets repaired and what stays. The AI makes every call in one pass. Manual repair belongs in Adobe Photoshop, where you control each fix.
• Colour accuracy matters to you and you know what the real colours were. The AI guesses colour from the picture it can read, so it cannot know a dress was green. MyHeritage In Color has the same limit, and any colorizer will.
• The faces in your photo are tiny, dark or mostly gone. The AI rebuilds facial detail from what it can make out, so the less face there is, the less it has to work from.
• You need the rest of PicWish's editing tools in the same place. The parent product, PicWish, covers background removal, object removal and retouching.
• The photo is confidential and cannot be uploaded to someone else's server. The restoration runs in PicWish's cloud.