Restore Damaged Photo — AI Repairs Tears, Water Damage, and Scratches

Restore damaged photos in seconds with AI-powered repair. Whether your photo suffered water damage in a flood, fire damage in a disaster, scratches from mishandling, or tears from age — our AI analyzes the destruction and intelligently reconstructs missing detail. No Photoshop skills required.

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Preview the shapes and colors. Clear logos and flat artwork usually trace more predictably than photos.
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Edit the SVG, compare optional optimization, and download your result.

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Repair Physical Tears

Torn edges, ripped corners, fold creases, and cracks — the AI detects torn boundaries and fills in missing areas using context from the surrounding image. Even photos ripped in half can be partially recovered.

Fix Water Damage

Floods, leaks, and humidity cause warping, bleeding, staining, and emulsion loss. Our AI separates water damage artifacts from original image content and reconstructs what the water destroyed.

Recover Scratched Photos

Surface scratches, scuffs, abrasions from stacking, and handling marks. The AI traces each scratch line and fills it with the correct color, texture, and detail from the original image beneath.

Remove Stains & Mold

Coffee rings, ink spots, foxing, mold colonies, and adhesive residue from old albums. AI identifies foreign material overlaying the image and removes it while preserving the photo underneath.

Instant AI Processing

Most damaged photos repaired in under 20 seconds. What would take a professional retoucher hours of clone-stamping and healing-brush work happens automatically with one upload.

Rescue Irreplaceable Photos

Damaged photos are often one-of-a-kind — wedding photos, baby pictures, family gatherings. Digital restoration creates a permanent archive before physical prints deteriorate further.

AI conversion features

Repair tears and ripped sections
Fix water and flood damage
Remove scratches and scuff marks
Clean mold and mildew stains
Repair fire and smoke damage
Remove adhesive and tape residue
Fix creases and fold lines
Reconstruct missing corners
Recover detail under stains
Works with scans and phone photos
Then upscale for higher resolution
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Local tracing and SVG editing need no credits. AI conversion includes one credit after email verification; additional packs start at $9.99.

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Types of Photo Damage We Restore

Scratches & Abrasions

Surface scratches from handling, deep gouges from sharp objects, scuff marks from stacking photos without separators, and abrasion damage from rough storage conditions. The AI traces each mark and fills it with detail reconstructed from the surrounding image.

Water Damage

Flood staining, leak damage, humidity warping, color bleeding where dyes ran together, emulsion bubbling and loss, and tideline marks from receding water. AI separates water artifacts from original photo data and reconstructs what was washed away.

Fire & Smoke Damage

Soot and smoke discoloration that yellows or darkens the entire image, heat warping that distorts shapes, partial charring at edges, and melted emulsion spots. The AI corrects color shifts and reconstructs detail in heat-affected areas.

Mold & Biological Growth

Mold colonies from damp storage, mildew spots, foxing (brown age spots from fungal activity), insect damage, and bacterial discoloration. AI identifies organic contamination patterns and recovers the image hidden beneath.

Tears & Structural Damage

Ripped and torn sections, missing corners and edges, crease and fold lines from improper storage, delamination where layers separate, and cracking from age-related brittleness. AI fills gaps with contextually accurate reconstruction.

Fading & Chemical Decay

Sun bleaching from UV exposure, chemical spills and stains, adhesive and tape residue from old photo albums, ink and pen marks, and dye instability causing color shifts. AI restores original vibrancy without oversaturation.

How AI Reconstructs Damaged Areas

Contextual Inpainting

Unlike simple clone stamping, our AI understands what belongs in a damaged area by analyzing the entire image. It recognizes faces, backgrounds, textures, and patterns — then generates realistic content to fill tears, holes, and stained regions seamlessly.

Damage Detection

The AI automatically identifies which parts of the image are original and which are damage artifacts. Water stains, mold spots, scratches, and tape residue are detected and separated from the underlying photo content without any manual masking.

Facial Reconstruction

When damage crosses a face — a scratch through an eye, a water stain on a cheek, a tear through a smile — the AI uses specialized facial priors to reconstruct realistic features. It understands facial symmetry, skin texture, and expression to produce natural-looking repairs.

Texture Matching

Repaired areas match the grain, noise level, and texture of the surrounding photo. The AI doesn't produce unnaturally smooth patches — it replicates the film grain and paper texture so repairs blend invisibly with undamaged areas.

Tips for Scanning Damaged Photos

1. Handle Fragile Photos with Care

Wear clean cotton gloves to prevent oils from causing more damage. Support warped photos from underneath — never try to flatten a curled photo by force as it may crack or tear further.

2. Scan at 600 DPI for Damaged Photos

Damaged photos benefit from higher scan resolution. 600 DPI captures subtle detail around damage boundaries that helps the AI produce more accurate repairs. Save as PNG or TIFF to avoid adding JPEG compression artifacts.

3. Reassemble Torn Pieces Before Scanning

If the photo is torn, carefully align the pieces on the scanner bed. The closer the alignment, the better the AI can fill the tear line. Use small pieces of low-tack tape on the back to hold alignment during scanning.

4. Restore First, Then Upscale

Repair damage first with the restorer, then upscale with AI to increase resolution. This workflow prevents the upscaler from amplifying damage artifacts into the enlarged image.