Restore old photos without a subscription

Why subscriptions are the wrong shape for this

Restoration is a one-time job. You gather the prints, restore them, print a few, and put the album back on the shelf. A weekly plan you forget to cancel can cost more than a whole archive; a yearly genealogy plan is a lot for ten photos.

A pack is priced for the job: Mini at $9 for three photos, Family archive at $19 for ten, Heirloom at $39 for ten with the largest files and an animation. One payment, no account, nothing renewing.

What restoration can recover

Fading, yellowing and colour casts come back well because the information is still in the print. Scratches, dust, creases and small tears are filled from the surrounding image. Mild blur from a slow shutter or a soft lens can be tightened. Grain and halftone dots from newspaper prints can be calmed.

What cannot be recovered is what was never captured. A face that is a smudge of six pixels has no detail to restore; the software would have to invent it, and we would rather it did not. In those cases the result is a cleaner, larger smudge, and the preview will show you that before you pay.

Photograph or scan the print well

The single biggest improvement you can make happens before upload. A flatbed scan at 300–600 dpi is best. If you only have a phone, it still works if you take care.

• Lay the print flat, on a plain surface, near a window but out of direct sun.
• Turn off the flash and avoid glare: tilt slightly if you see a bright patch.
• Fill the frame with the print, straight on, not at an angle.
• Do not crop tightly; a small border is fine and helps alignment.
• Photograph the original print, not a photo of a photo on a screen.

Likeness is kept, not improved

The restoration model is told to keep the face exactly as it is: no smoothing, no reshaping, no whitened teeth, no younger version. If a redo looks more like your relative, choose it; the chosen version feeds the print files.

What you receive

Every pack includes the restored images and a before-and-after share card. Family adds 4K masters, 300 dpi print files at 30×40 cm and a short reveal video. Heirloom adds 8K masters, 50×70 cm print files and one four-second animation of a photo you choose.

The guarantee and your data

Free preview of your own photo before paying. Unlimited free redos for 14 days. Full refund even after download. Photos deleted after 30 days, or sooner if you ask. No training, no face database.