Bring Old Photos Back to Life

There’s a new AI tool on the block, and it’s pretty impressive: Generative Facial Prior (or GFP-GAN for short) can restore old photos into looking as good as new! If you’ve ever restored a photo by hand in Photoshop, it can be a really long process, and takes a certain touch to get it right. Created by researchers at the Tencent Applied Research Center, it’s basically the anti-Instagram filter. It removes the hallmarks of aged photography, like noise and washed out colors, and sharpens things up to meet more of the standards we have for images in the modern era. It’s also free to use, so if you have old photos of long gone relatives oyu’d like to see good as new, now’s your chance!