# AI Photo Enhancer > Fix blurry, noisy or faded photos at 2K resolution without changing who is in them. - URL: https://soracai.com/ai-photo-enhancer - Type: photo effect - Category: Portrait (https://soracai.com/effects/portrait) - Cost: 15 credits per run (packs from $4.99; pricing: https://soracai.com/pricing.md) - Inputs: Your photo – Any photo that is blurry, grainy, faded or low-resolution - Time: about 15 seconds - Watermark: none - Updated: 2026-10-04 ## What is the AI Photo Enhancer? The AI photo enhancer is for pictures that matter but look bad: a dim party snap, a screenshot of a screenshot, an old scan with a yellow cast, or a photo someone sent you through three messaging apps. Upload it and the template removes blur, noise, compression blocks and color casts, corrects exposure and white balance, and rebuilds fine detail in eyes, hair and fabric. The output is 2K, so it holds up when cropped or printed small. The template is strict about what it doesn't change. It keeps the face, expression, pose, clothing, framing and background, and it adds no makeup or beautifying. The goal is the same moment, as if a better camera had taken it. The aspect ratio follows your original, so nothing gets cropped. This began as one of the popular trend pages on Soracai, after people found that Nano Banana's image models could clean up photos while leaving the people in them alone. Older upscalers mostly sharpened edges. Newer models can infer plausible detail, which works well but also means you should check faces before using a result where accuracy matters. ## What the enhancer fixes, and what it can't It handles the usual problems well: motion blur and soft focus, sensor noise from low light, blocky JPEG compression from messaging apps, and color casts from old film or tungsten bulbs. It also brings up shadows and pulls back blown highlights where some detail remains. It can't recover information that was never captured. A face that is a few pixels wide, a fully blown-out sky or a heavily cropped zoom will be rebuilt from the model's best guess. Those results can look convincing and still be wrong in small ways. For family archives, keep the original alongside the enhanced version, and treat the enhanced one as an interpretation. ## Why it runs at 2K Most of the other photo templates generate at 1K, which is plenty for a social post. An enhancer is different: people crop the result, zoom in to check faces and sometimes print it, so the template runs Nano Banana 2 at 2K. That gives roughly four times the pixels of a 1K image, with room for detail in hair and fabric. The aspect ratio is set to match your upload, so a landscape group photo stays landscape and a tall phone screenshot stays tall. Nothing is reframed, which keeps the result comparable to the original side by side. ## How to use it 1. Open https://soracai.com/ai-photo-enhancer and upload a photo. 2. Press Generate (15 credits). 3. Download the image. ## Tips - Upload the best version of the photo you have. If there is an original file, use it instead of a screenshot. - Crop away borders, app UI and timestamps first. Cleaner input gives cleaner detail. - Very small faces, such as people at the back of a group shot, have little real information, so the model has to guess. Check those faces closely. - For scanned prints, scan at the highest setting your scanner offers and keep the full print in frame. - If a result looks too smooth, run the original again. The model can return slightly different detail each time. ## Use cases - Rescuing blurry or noisy phone photos from concerts, parties and night outs - Cleaning up old family prints and faded scans - Sharpening a profile photo you like that came out soft - Improving low-resolution images before printing or sharing ## FAQ ### How can I make a blurry picture clear? Upload it to the AI photo enhancer. It removes blur and noise and rebuilds fine detail at 2K while keeping the people, pose and framing the same. Results are best when the blur is moderate and faces are reasonably large in the frame. ### Does the AI photo enhancer change faces? It is instructed not to change identity, expression or features, and not to beautify. On very small or very blurry faces the model has to infer detail, so compare the result with the original before relying on it. ### Can it restore old photos? Yes, for fading, color casts, grain and softness. Torn or missing areas are a harder job. The model may fill small gaps, but it is not a dedicated damage-repair tool. ### What resolution is the result? 2K, with the same aspect ratio as your upload. ### Is the photo enhancer free? New accounts get free credits to try photo templates, and the enhancer is one of them. Results have no watermark. ### Are my photos kept private? Uploads are stored in Firebase Storage (Google Cloud), linked to your account, and are not public. Email support if you'd like your uploads deleted. 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