Enhance an Old Photo — Pro, on our server
Two different photographs answer to the word old. One is chemistry: a print or a negative whose dyes have shifted towards orange, whose silver has flattened towards grey, and whose detail was always limited by the stock and the enlarger. The other is early digital: a small sensor, an aggressive in-camera JPEG encoder and a memory card that cost real money, producing a file that is technically clean but starved of both pixels and bit depth. The Cloud HD enhancer addresses the compression damage and softness in either case and lifts a faded print towards its colour, at the same pixel size it was given.
Enhancement, restoration and colour are three tools with a fixed order. If people are the point of the photograph, the photo restorer is the stronger first move, because it is built around faces and refuses a result that has drifted from the person in your original. If the photograph is a street, a house or a crowd, start here instead — no face is required. Colour comes after either of them: colourising a photo works better on a cleaned image, and it produces a plausible reading rather than a verified record of what the room actually looked like.
Physical damage is explicitly out of scope, and it should be. A tear, a water stain, a bite taken out of a corner, silverfish tracks — none of these are touched by enhancement, and the result hands them back unchanged. Only the object remover fills an area back in, by inpainting under a brush mask you paint yourself, and it works best on small-to-medium regions with predictable surroundings such as sky, wall or fabric. It draws the HD sub-quota — 10 of your monthly runs may be HD-class — so it is worth saving for damage that genuinely matters.
Size comes last, and privacy is not an afterthought. An enhanced file at the original dimensions is the input the image upscaler wants, because an upscaler magnifies faithfully — including anything you have not fixed yet. As for the upload: nearly every MiniPx tool works entirely in your browser, and Cloud HD is the stated exception, a Pro-only opt-in path where your photo is uploaded to our server for that run and deleted when the run finishes, and in all cases within 24 hours. It is processed in the United States, encrypted in transit, and never used to train anything. Every result names the model that made it, currently RestoreFormer++.