Bring the shoebox back, and let one of them move

Repair the damage, take it up to a size worth framing, then let the best one blink and smile as a short keepsake.

A restoration studio charges $30 to $80 a photo and takes a week, which is why the box stays in the loft. The clip at the end is the part nobody has ever been able to buy: the photograph, moving.

Why this will not look generic: Restoration runs as repair rather than reimagining, so the face that comes back is the one in the original rather than a plausible stranger with the same haircut.

What you walk away with

• A repaired photo: scratches, fading and noise gone
• The same photo at a size worth printing or framing
• A short clip of the best one, moving

Typical run: 1 to 30 in a sitting.

How it works

1. Repair the damage - Scratches, fading, blur and noise. Keep the original grain and the original colour cast: that is what makes it still read as the real photograph.
2. Take it up to print size - A scan of a 1970s print has nowhere near the pixels a frame needs. This is the step between a screen and a wall.
3. Let one of them move - Pick the one face everybody in the family knows. Thirty years of a still photograph, and then it blinks.

Cost and time

This workflow runs at from 26 AI Credits + about 3 minutes. Your result carries automatically from each step into the next, so there is no re-uploading between tools. Every step spends AI Credits from the same balance, reverses included, and credit packs never expire.

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