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Old family photos
Pre-digital photos scanned at low resolution benefit enormously from Clarity Upscaler's AI-generated texture reconstruction.
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Portrait restoration
Real-ESRGAN with GFPGAN face enhancement specifically targets and restores facial detail — eyes, skin, hair — even in severely degraded images.
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Historical documents
Enhance scanned historical photographs and documents to readable quality with 4× or 8× upscaling.
Best settings for photo restoration
- For portraits: Clarity Upscaler, 4×, creativity 0.45, resemblance 0.6. Or Real-ESRGAN 4× with face enhance enabled.
- For group photos: Real-ESRGAN 4× with face enhance — detects all faces in the image.
- For landscapes/scenery: Clarity Upscaler 4×, creativity 0.5, resemblance 0.55.
- For heavily damaged images: Higher creativity (0.55–0.65) allows the AI to fill in more aggressively.
Workflow tips
- Scan originals at the highest available DPI before uploading
- Save as PNG before uploading to avoid JPEG compression artifacts compounding
- Crop tightly to portraits for best face enhancement results
- Use the before/after slider to verify no hallucinated features were introduced