Enhance face clarity, sharpness, and detail using AI. Restore old portraits.
Enhance portrait photos using an AI face-restoration model. Restores blurry faces, improves skin detail, and sharpens facial features. Perfect for old or low-quality portrait photos.
Upload your file using the tool above.
Adjust any settings to your preference.
Click the process button and wait for results.
Download your output using the download button.
It reconstructs facial detail — eyes, skin texture, hair edges — in photos that are soft, low-resolution or degraded. It is trained specifically on faces, which is why it outperforms general sharpening on portraits, and why it does comparatively little for landscapes or objects.
Usually, but check carefully. The model reconstructs plausible detail rather than recovering what was truly there, so very blurry faces can come back subtly altered — a slightly different nose or jawline. The worse the input, the more the output is interpretation rather than restoration.
It is one of the best uses for it. Faded, soft prints from decades ago often improve markedly. Scan at the highest resolution your scanner offers and repair heavy damage first if you can — the model handles softness far better than it handles tears, creases and missing areas.
AI Portrait Enhancer is free to try — create an account and you get 2 AI runs on us. The account is what lets us give AI away for free without it being abused, since every run costs us real money to process. After your free runs you can buy a one-time credit pack that never expires, or go Pro for 100 runs a month. Every other tool on the site stays completely free and needs no account at all.
AI Portrait Enhancer sends your file over an encrypted connection to the AI service that runs the model. We keep no copy, and it is never used to train AI models, though an AI service may hold a request for a limited time solely to detect abuse. If a file is confidential, use one of our in-browser tools instead, which never upload anything.
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PNG, JPG, WebP — up to 10 MB · 2 free AI runs with an account
This tool uses a state-of-the-art blind face restoration AI model. It combines a degradation-removal network with a pre-trained face GAN to realistically restore blurry, noisy, and low-resolution portrait photos with remarkable fidelity.
How it works: The model uses facial geometry priors to guide a face super-resolution GAN. It detects facial landmarks, aligns and crops the face region, restores it using the pre-trained generator, then seamlessly pastes the enhanced face back into the original image — preserving background context while maximising face quality.
Why AI face restoration: Unlike generic sharpening, a model trained specifically on faces reconstructs realistic skin, eyes, and hair detail. It produces natural-looking results with a strong balance of speed and quality on real-world degraded photos.
Best use cases: Old family scans, damaged prints, blurry holiday photos, low-resolution profile pictures, AI-generated portraits that need face detail, and any image where faces appear soft or pixelated.
Privacy: Portraits are sent to a private GPU server for processing only. Images are never stored, logged, or shared. Each request is discarded immediately after the enhanced PNG is returned.
Supported formats: JPG, PNG, WebP · Max input: 10 MB · Max recommended size: 1024×1024 px · Output: PNG · Strength: Subtle / Medium / Strong · Powered by AI on NVIDIA T4 GPU