Restoration20 credits total3–8 min

Old Photo Restoration Workflow

Repair scratches, restore faces and enlarge a treasured old photo. All editing steps and final files are included in the displayed credit price.

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Read https://allimageai.com/workflows/restore-old-photo.md

Help me get better results from "Old Photo Restoration Workflow". Explain how to prepare the inputs, improve each step and check the final images. Give three actionable quality improvements and explain the total credit cost. Include a useful prompt example only for steps that accept one. Answer in English and cite this page. Distinguish the page's facts from your suggestions. If you cannot access the page, say so instead of inventing its contents.

Select and copy this prompt:Read https://allimageai.com/workflows/restore-old-photo.md Help me get better results from "Old Photo Restoration Workflow". Explain how to prepare the inputs, improve each step and check the final images. Give three actionable quality improvements and explain the total credit cost. Include a useful prompt example only for steps that accept one. Answer in English and cite this page. Distinguish the page's facts from your suggestions. If you cannot access the page, say so instead of inventing its contents.

Illustrative photo restoration: a scratched archival portrait beside a cleaned black-and-white portrait of the same woman.

Upload your old photo scan

20 credits

fixed total · no per-step charges

Old photo scan

A flat scan at 300 DPI or better gives the restoration models the most real detail to preserve.

Known details · optional

Face fidelity

Colorize black-and-white photoColours are plausible AI inference, not recovered historical fact.

Charged once when submitted. If any required stage fails, the full workflow charge is refunded automatically.

Restore Old Photo preview

3–8 min1 output

1Repair damage
2Restore face
3Resize 2×

2× final image1 image included

Restore Old Photo example settings

Scratched portrait

Repairs facial damage conservatively, then rebuilds printable detail.

Preserve the person’s expression, hairstyle and natural age exactly.

Faded family photo

A balanced repair with optional historically guided colour inference.

Muted 1950s colours; dark navy clothing and warm cream interior walls.

Restore Old Photo editing steps

Upload a scan

Scanning beats photographing the print; 300 DPI or better.

Repair damage

Brush over scratches and missing areas.

Tool: Object Remover

Restore faces

Fidelity first, so features stay true.

Tool: Old Photo Restoration Model: CodeFormer

Optional colourisation

Inferred colour for black-and-white originals.

Model: Nano Banana 2

Resize and export

A deterministic 2× resize produces the final printable file.

About this workflow

Order matters when restoring a photo: repair damage before restoring faces, or the face model treats scratches as facial detail and sharpens them. This workflow fixes that order for you.

Frequently Asked Questions

Are the colours accurate?+

No, they are plausible inference. State real colours in the prompt if you know them.

It no longer looks like the person.+

Raise Face Fidelity and rerun — under-repairing is the safer failure.