Old photo restoration
Your old photos, good as new.
Take a picture of a faded, torn or water-damaged photo with your phone. We’ll send it back restored, with the damage gone and the true color back. Nothing to mail.
- See every photo before you pay
- Back within 24 hours
- $12 a photo, less for big batches
How it works
Three easy steps. No scanner needed.
- 1
Take a picture of your photo
Lay it on a table near a window and snap a picture with your phone. It doesn’t have to be perfect.
- 2
Upload it here
Add as many photos as you like. It’s free to upload, and you don’t need an account.
- 3
Preview, then pay
We email you a preview of each restored photo within 24 hours. Keep the ones you love and download them in full quality.
Before and after
From the 1890s to the 1990s, we can bring it back.
Water damage, tears, fading, mold, red-eye: here’s what that looks like fixed. Two of these were sent in as simple phone pictures, glare and all.
These are sample restorations we made to show the kinds of damage we can fix. They are not customer photos.
Optional add-on
See it in color for the first time.
We can colorize black-and-white photos so they look like they were taken on color film: true skin tones, real uniforms, the flowers in the bouquet. Just $5 more per photo.
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Newer photos, too
Make everyday snapshots look professional.
Early digital cameras and old phones took a lot of blurry, grainy, flash-blasted pictures. We can make them look like a professional photographer took them, with the same people and the same moment, just beautiful. $19 per photo.
Simple prices
Pay only for the photos you keep.
Uploading is free, and so is your preview. The more photos you restore, the less each one costs.
For example, 40 photos would be $360, and a shoebox of 150 would be $700.
Photo restoration
| First 25 photos | $12 each |
|---|---|
| Photos 26 to 100 | $4 each |
| Every photo after 100 | $2 each |
Extras
| Colorize a black-and-white photo | +$5 |
|---|---|
| Extra-large file for wall prints | +$3 |
| Make a newer photo look professional | $19 |
| Custom edits, like removing a person or changing the background | from $29 |
How to take a good picture of an old photo
A few tips for the best results.
- Use daylight. Set the photo on a table near a window during the day. Turn the flash off.
- Take it out of the album. Plastic sleeves and frame glass cause glare that hides detail.
- Hold the phone flat above it. Keep the phone level with the photo, not tilted.
- Fill the screen. Get close enough that the photo takes up most of the picture.
- Hold still. Tap the screen on the photo to focus, then take the picture.
- Have a big box of them? The free Google PhotoScan app is a handy way to do many at once.
What we can restore
- Faded and discolored photos
- Torn, ripped and taped photos
- Water and flood damage
- Creases, cracks and folds
- Mold, stains and spots
- Scratches and dust
- Missing corners and pieces
- Red-eye
- Yellowed black-and-white photos
- Faded Polaroids
- Pink and orange color shifts
- Blurry and grainy pictures
- Military and service portraits
- Wedding photos
- School pictures
- Antique tintypes and cabinet cards
Questions
Good questions, plain answers.
Do I have to mail you my photos?
No. Your originals never leave your house. Just take a picture of each photo with your phone and upload it. We send the restored version back to you by email.
Is a phone picture really good enough?
For almost every print, yes. Take it in daylight near a window with the flash off, and fill the screen with the photo. If a picture is too blurry or has too much glare to work with, we’ll tell you before you pay anything, and explain how to retake it.
Do I pay before I see anything?
No. You upload your photos for free, and we email you a preview of every restoration within 24 hours. You only pay for the ones you want to keep.
Will it still look like Grandpa?
That’s the whole point. We keep faces, expressions and clothing just as they were. If a face doesn’t look quite right to you, tell us and we’ll redo it for free.
How do you do it?
We use the latest AI-assisted restoration tools, the same kind of technology the big photo labs now use, and we check every photo before it goes out. That’s how we can do in a day what used to take a retoucher a week, for a fraction of the price.
What do I get back?
A high-resolution digital file of each photo, ready to print up to 8×10, share by email or text, or post on Facebook. If you plan to print big for the wall, choose Extra-large.
Can you fix black-and-white photos and add color?
Yes. We restore black-and-white photos as clean black-and-white by default. For $5 more per photo, we can also colorize them so they look like they were taken on color film.
Can you fix newer photos too?
Yes. Blurry flash pictures, grainy early digital camera photos and dull phone snapshots can be made to look like a professional took them. That’s $19 per photo.
Are my photos private?
Yes. Your photos are used only to make your restorations. We never share or sell them, and we delete them after 60 days unless you ask us to keep them.
Would this make a good gift?
It’s one of the best. A restored photo of Mom and Dad’s wedding or Grandpa in uniform means more than anything from a store. Order early in December and we’ll have them back to you well before the holidays.
That shoebox of photos isn’t getting any younger.
Upload a few today and see what they look like restored. It’s free to try.
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