An old family scan, a screenshot of a screenshot, a low-res profile picture you can't find the original of — blurry photos used to be a lost cause. Modern AI changed that: the ToolBox AI photo enhancer can rebuild faces and add real detail while enlarging, free and at full resolution.
What each option actually does
- Face restoration: a model trained on millions of faces reconstructs blurry or pixelated faces. This is the star feature — it works even on tiny, heavily compressed faces.
- Upscale & sharpen: enlarges 2× or 4× while generating plausible detail, so the result stays crisp instead of going soft like a normal resize.
- Denoise: removes grain from low-light and old photos.
How to avoid the “plastic AI” look
The biggest mistake is turning everything on at once. Use options one at a time: only Face restoration for a blurry portrait, only Upscale for a small but clean image. After processing, use the live sliders — brightness, contrast, warmth, sharpness, background blur — and keep changes subtle. The before/after slider shows exactly what changed.
Full quality, actually free
You download the full-resolution result with your live adjustments baked in — no watermark, no sign-up, and the photo is deleted from the server after processing.
Try it: Enhance a photo with AI. Want the subject on a clean backdrop afterwards? Use remove background next.