r/photorestore Mar 18 '24

ANNOUNCEMENT NOTICE TO RESTORERS USING AI

19 Upvotes

We’ve had a lot of submissions lately being “restored” just using AI. Faces missing noses, faces distorted in nightmare’ish ways, backgrounds altered, photos cropped to fit the AI windows, wonky colours that would never exist in real life, etc.

If it wasn’t clear in the rules, please allow me to be clear now. Although you can use AI as a helper, YOU CANNOT USE IT TO DO A FULL RESTORE. The technology just isn’t there yet, especially with the free ones.

Please stop submitting photos that have just been AI “restored”, its takes a lot of time to go through the sub and remove them. If the OP wanted that, they could just do that themselves. You will be banned if you continue to submit “restores” that are obviously done fully using AI.

Thank you to all the other Restorer’s that continue to lend their time to restoring photos properly, you are very much appreciated.


r/photorestore Jan 17 '25

ANNOUNCEMENT SCAMMERS IN THE DM'S

13 Upvotes

The reason that our sub is free, is in part due to the amount of scams that happen in the photo restoration space on reddit and in general. I want to reiterate that if you post a photo and someone sends you a message or chat saying that they'll restore it for X amount of money or they'll restore it in general, and then when they do they ask for or demand X amount of money, there's not much that we or Reddit admin's can actually do to help because you engaged in that exchange willingly, nobody forced you to respond.

This is why we warn everyone that posts not to entertain any DM's from anyone that says they'll restore the photo for them, and why its in our sub description and rules say that this is a free sub, because it a free sub full stop. I recently talked to a user that was scammed out of $35 in this way and couldn't dispute the charge with Paypal because they were instructed to send it "friends and family". Sure we were able to ban the scammer and hand their information and screenshots over to Reddit Admin and I'm sure that resulted in them getting perma banned from the site but that's all we can do.

These scammers know what they're doing, please do not interact with them in the DM's and if you ever see anyone on here that has gotten past the multitude of filters and programs I've set up to block them, report it. If you do get scammed or anyone sends you a message, please click the "message the mods" button and let me know so I can do what little I can to prevent them from using this sub.


r/photorestore 11h ago

DISCUSSION ONLY Requesting help extracting archived images from a 2005–2008 Fotolog

1 Upvotes

Hi everyone, I am trying to recover photos from my mother's old Fotolog account she passed when I was 4. Her handle was ⁠gitana_camela⁠ (Santiago, Chile, active around 2005–2008). The standard Wayback Machine UI only loads broken image boxes. Would anyone with access to the bulk Fotolog WARC archive dumps be able to check if any raw ⁠.jpg⁠ files exist under that username? Thank you so much for any help.


r/photorestore 2d ago

DISCUSSION ONLY Wedding photographer damaged our drive — trying to recover photos and videos as a surprise for my wife

1 Upvotes

Hi everyone,

Our wedding photographer damaged the drive that has our wedding photos and videos. Some files seem corrupted, some may be unreadable, and I’m trying to recover and restore everything as a surprise for my wife.

I’m looking for advice on the best way to handle this safely. I’d really appreciate recommendations for:

Recovering files from a damaged drive

Repairing corrupted photo or video files

AI tools or services that can restore blurry or damaged wedding photos

Tools that can improve old or damaged videos too

These memories are very important to us, so I want to avoid doing anything that could make things worse. If anyone has been through something similar, I’d be grateful for any suggestions.


r/photorestore 3d ago

FIX THE LIGHTING, COLOUR OR BLURRINESS My mom (middle) and her siblings

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7 Upvotes

Hoping mostly for some color correction. She loves this picture


r/photorestore 3d ago

DAMAGE + MAKE IT HAVE COLOUR Moose hunt

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5 Upvotes

This is my husband’s grandfather (middle back). He moved to America from Finland and build a small family house in Duluth Minnesota. He was a kind man, according to family.


r/photorestore 3d ago

FIX THE DAMAGE My dad and mom

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3 Upvotes

This is a slide recently discovered of my dad and mom from a couple of years before I was born. The slide had water/mold damage but I would be eternally grateful if someone could clean it up!


r/photorestore 3d ago

FIX THE DAMAGE My little sister

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5 Upvotes

Please help me to restore 🙏


r/photorestore 4d ago

FIX THE LIGHTING, COLOUR OR BLURRINESS The only photo of great Uncle, Please help

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7 Upvotes

This is the only photo that exists of my great Uncle - taken in 1966. Please don't colorize. Please try to keep his appearance as close to what appears. This will be part of a set of photos of his siblings. Your help is greatly appreciated!


r/photorestore 4d ago

FIX THE LIGHTING, COLOUR OR BLURRINESS Please help restore

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3 Upvotes

My mom sent me this photo of her, her parents and siblings can anyone try and fix it to where I can see some detail in the faces. Idk if thats possible but I would really appreciate it.


r/photorestore 5d ago

FIX EVERYTHING (DETAILS IN TITLE OR COMMENTS) Please help me have a clearer version of this photo 🙏

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8 Upvotes

I want this old photo of them with their twin daughters. It’s a photo of a photo. But they want a clearer photo. I have attached 2 photos for reference of them. I don’t want any features or details changed. 🙏


r/photorestore 5d ago

FIX THE DAMAGE Help possibly

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11 Upvotes

Firstly I want to thank whoever looks or helps with this I wanted to get those scratches out of the picture so it’s full again?
Mods feel free to edit this if I’m doing it wrong.
Thank you again


r/photorestore 8d ago

FIX THE LIGHTING, COLOUR OR BLURRINESS My dad passed away august 6th

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8 Upvotes

I don’t have many pictures of my dad who just passed away, I have this one, but it’s blurry. Can anyone sharpen the image? I’ve also attached a couple pictures of his face so that hopefully you can get the face right.


r/photorestore 8d ago

FIX THE DAMAGE Can anyone help? This is my mother and a friend from back then. It got damaged some how

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3 Upvotes

r/photorestore 9d ago

FIX EVERYTHING (DETAILS IN TITLE OR COMMENTS) Can someone restore this for my dad.

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16 Upvotes

Restore for my Dad’s 85 th , with much thanks .


r/photorestore 10d ago

FIX THE DAMAGE Only Photo of Young Great Grandmother

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13 Upvotes

Hoping someone can restore this photo, which is the only one we have of my great grandmother when she was young. It’s the only copy and became stuck to the frame’s glass causing the damage seen on her shoulder. Just want the damage fixed. Thank you in advance!


r/photorestore 10d ago

FIX THE LIGHTING, COLOUR OR BLURRINESS Can the color be improved?

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3 Upvotes

Can the color be fixed? Photo of when my grandma and grandfather married with my mom and uncle. Thanks in advance.


r/photorestore 12d ago

FIX THE DAMAGE Restore photo of my (great-)great-great-great-grandma

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7 Upvotes

Hello,

this is a photo of my grandmas grandmas mother or my grandmas grandmas grandma, she wasn't entirely sure anymore. Naturally, this photo has seen some things over the years. The photo is probably over 100 years old.

This is the only copy of the photo we have. I made two copies of it using a canon lide 400 and my phone.

I am new to this sub but I have seen some amazing work on here, so I really hope this photo can be restored. Thank you so much in advance.


r/photorestore 12d ago

FIX THE DAMAGE Can anyone fix this photo of my dad and brother?

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12 Upvotes

Dad turns 90 next month. I'm hoping to use this photo as part of a gift.


r/photorestore 12d ago

FIX THE DAMAGE 1975 Navy Photo - please restore

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2 Upvotes

r/photorestore 12d ago

FIX EVERYTHING (DETAILS IN TITLE OR COMMENTS) For Funeral Slideshow

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3 Upvotes

Can anyone please enhance this photo and provide a colorized and black&white version of this old picture for a funeral slideshow? Thank you!


r/photorestore 12d ago

FIX EVERYTHING (DETAILS IN TITLE OR COMMENTS) Can someone please help restore this photo of my great-grandmother?

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3 Upvotes

Please fix the scratches and make it clearer!


r/photorestore 13d ago

FIX THE LIGHTING, COLOUR OR BLURRINESS Hey can somebody prove once and for all if Bigfoot is for real

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0 Upvotes

r/photorestore 14d ago

FIX EVERYTHING (DETAILS IN TITLE OR COMMENTS) Restoration for a funeral.

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15 Upvotes

My father passed yesterday and I'm trying to pull some photos of him together for the funeral. There's three photos total. My Dad loved motorcycles and joked he married my mom because she had a car, and he only had a motorcycle.

So there's two photos of them when they were young and in love.
The motorcycle was red and white. My mom's hair was reddish and my dad was blond.

The third image was captured of my father, and then it appeared in a motorcycle calendar. Unfortunately it was near their router and the heat destroyed the color. His motorcycle was a burgundy color, and the storm clouds were very vivid.

Any help would be appreciated. I hope to print these by Thursday. With much appreciation for y'alls tech skills.


r/photorestore 15d ago

FIX THE LIGHTING, COLOUR OR BLURRINESS Can anyone restore this picture of my grandparents? It would be greatly appreciated

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3 Upvotes