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# Repair damaged photo

Fills tears, stains, creases, and missing spots you paint with a brush, inpainting them from surrounding pixels with Telea or Navier-Stokes style passes.

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JPG, PNG, WebP · up to 4 megapixels · stays on your device
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This is classic inpainting, not generative AI: painted damage is filled from the pixels around it. It mends tears, stains, dust, and creases. It cannot rebuild a missing face or object, so keep the mask tight around the damage.

The fill is a fast-marching weighted average (Telea) or a harmonic diffusion pass (Navier-Stokes) over the painted area, computed in this tab from your photo's own pixels. It is an estimate, not a reconstruction: large holes drift toward the average color around them, and nothing is invented to fill them. Damaged scans usually need several passes, one area at a time.
OptionsRepair painted areas

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