Will the people in my house photo still look like themselves?

The prompts instruct the restoration to keep every face, age and expression in a house photo as photographed. Where a face in house photos was tiny or badly blurred the result is a plausible reconstruction, so check it against other photos and family memory before printing.

Can I colorize house photos?

Yes. Run the Photo Colorizer after the repair. Colors on a house photo are inferred from the era and the materials, so if anyone remembers a dress or a car color, type it into the known-colors field.

What does restoring a house photo cost?

One Standard run of any tool on house photos is covered by the 4 free credits a new account starts with. Pro and Max use more credits and return more detail on a house photo; the pricing page has the current numbers.

Do I need a scanner for house photos?

No. A phone photo of the house photo works; run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first to crop, straighten and remove glare, then restore the result.

Subjects

Restore old house photos

House photos are usually the photographs a family would run back into the house for: the family home with someone standing on the porch or out in the yard, printed anywhere from the 1900s to 1980s. The house photos that survive tend to show mildew spots from a damp basement box, a torn corner and a sky that has faded to paper white.

Upload the house photo as a scan or a phone photo, and the restoration comes back in seconds with the porch details, the windows and the house number kept as they were in the original. Faces in house photos that were badly blurred are plausible reconstructions, so compare them against other pictures of the same people.

Standard is enough for a house photo headed for a screen; Pro and Max recover more detail for a print that will hang on a wall. Whichever tier you choose, run house photos through the upscaler last so the reprint stays sharp.

Open with these settings Stain & Spot Remover

Restore old house photos, the original print

OriginalRestored

Original on the left, restored on the right; hover to see more of the repair. Made in the Studio from a scan of the print.

What matters for these photos

The porch details, the windows and the house number, which must stay as photographed while the damage is repaired
One surviving house photo that every relative wants a clean copy of
House photos scanned years ago at low resolution and never reprinted
Mildew spots from a damp basement box, a torn corner and a sky that has faded to paper white

Suggested order of passes

01
Run Stain & Spot Remover on the house photo
The first pass for house photos: it takes on mildew spots from a damp basement box, a torn corner and a sky that has faded to paper white while keeping the porch details, the windows and the house number as photographed.
Stain & Spot Remover
02
Repair what the first pass left on the house photo
Photo Restoration picks up the remaining marks on house photos without touching the tone or grain elsewhere.
Photo Restoration
03
Upscale the house photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a framed print or enlargement of house photos needs, with the shape of the upload unchanged.
Image Upscaler