Restoration bench
Pixelated screenshots, grainy night frames, and scans that went soft do not need another beauty filter. They need a larger, cleaner file you can compare against the original before you print it or send it.
JPEG, PNG, WebP, or AVIF. The first three repairs do not need an account.
Left: the sign with the focus pulled off the letters. Right: the letters as the camera held them.
Each one wants a different pass. Sharpening is not a cure for all of them.
Stair-step edges from a tiny crop, a screenshot, or a resize that only repeated blocks.
High-ISO speckle and dusty scans. The edge of the subject should stay where it was.
Missed focus, a little camera shake, or a file that was enlarged until it went soft.
2× to see if the subject holds. 4× and 8× when you already trust the repair.
Restoration bench
These plates were made for the site so you can see blocks, speckle, and blur against an intact edge. They are not customer files, and they are not a promise about your photograph.
Left: the sign with the focus pulled off the letters. Right: the letters as the camera held them.
Left: coarse grain over the night frame. Right: the same frame without that speckle.
Left: the lamp reduced and enlarged by repeating pixels. Right: the sharp plate.
No card
$0
Three repairs a day, with no account required for the guest allowance. The preview is full quality. The free download reaches 3,200 px on the long edge.
per month
$12 /mo
Full-size downloads for prints and gifts: 4×, face restore, and a batch of 12. Cancel anytime. A failed job is not charged.
per month
$29 /mo
For a family archive: 8× on a tiny original, face restore, and a batch of 40. The same 24-hour deletion as every other plan.
No. Pixels that were never saved cannot be fetched back. The bench predicts edges, texture, and faces that are plausible for what remains. If the person stops looking like themselves, keep the small file.
Guests get three credits a day with no account: upscale 2×, denoise, and unblur cost one, and colorize costs two. The preview is full quality and carries no watermark. The free download is capped at 3,200 px on the long edge. Commercial use is allowed when you have the rights to the file. Print ($12) and Archive ($29) unlock full-size downloads, 4×, face restore, and, on Archive, 8×.
Originals and results are deleted 24 hours after the job is created. There are no ads. Card numbers stay with Polar, the merchant of record. Subscriptions can be cancelled anytime and are not refunded. A failed job returns its credit. The live model runs on Replicate when a token is configured.
A restoration can invent a window mullion or a pore that was not there. Dragging the original across the result is how you decide whether the file is fit to print.
October 24, 2026
What super-resolution actually predicts, how it differs from bicubic resize, and when Real-ESRGAN-style upscaling should be refused.
October 22, 2026
Separate film grain, high-ISO noise, and scan dust, then denoise without sanding off the edges you meant to keep.
October 20, 2026
A practical sequence for pixelated photos: tell JPEG blocks from nearest-neighbor stairs, crop to the subject, and stop when the repair invents a person.