What is AI Face Restore?
AI Face Restore uses CodeFormer, a Transformer-based face restoration model, to repair blurry, pixelated, or damaged faces in photos. It offers a unique fidelity control that lets you balance between maximum quality enhancement and faithfulness to the original face.
When to Use This Tool
- Old family photos — Faces degraded by time, scanning, or compression.
- Surveillance footage — Enhance low-resolution face captures.
- Social media — Fix overly compressed profile photos.
- Group photos — Restore faces that are blurry due to distance or motion.
Tips for Best Results
- The fidelity slider controls the quality-faithfulness tradeoff. Lower values produce better quality but may alter facial features; higher values stay closer to the original.
- Enable "Only Center Face" for group photos where you want to focus on the main subject.
- Works best when faces are at least 64x64 pixels in the original image.