Unblur Face with AI

Real results from Unblur Face

A real result from this tool: a 233 × 320 portrait, soft enough that the eyes were a smudge, restored to 864 × 1152. The second pair is a 100% crop of the same region.

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Will Unblur Face work on your photo?

Match what is wrong with your image to what this tool can realistically do. Where it cannot help, the row says which tool can.

• A low-resolution face

  Good match

  The strongest case. Our sample went from 233 × 320 to 864 × 1152 with lashes, iris and brow hairs legible again, and it is still the same person.

• Compressed copies from chat apps

  Good match

  JPEG artifacts around the eyes and mouth are what the model removes first.

• A group photo

  Good match

  Every face in the frame is handled in one pass, and each person is kept as they are.

• A tiny face in a wide shot

  Partial improvement

  The fewer pixels the face occupies, the more the model has to invent. Crop to head and shoulders first, then upload.

• Scratches, creases or fading on the print

  Use another tool

  That is physical damage, not blur. Repair it first with Photo Restoration

How to unblur a face with AI

Unblur Face recovers facial detail lost to blur, low resolution or compression. It is a thin tool page — not Adobe Firefly, Fotor, Picsart or Krea — so the whole workflow is upload, run and check identity at full size.

• Crop so the face fills the frame

  A head-and-shoulders crop gives the model more pixels to reconstruct. Tiny faces in wide shots force more invention.

• Repair paper damage first on old prints

  Scratches and creases across a face confuse reconstruction. Run Photo Restoration, then Unblur Face.

• Compare identity, not just sharpness

  Zoom into the eyes and hairline. If it looks like a different person, rerun or switch model rather than downloading.

• Free preview credits and watermarked downloads

  Signing in gives you 10 credits. Free-plan downloads carry a small watermark; paid plans download clean. Nothing here invents a new face on purpose — identity preservation is the point.

Why Unblur Face on AI Image Tools

• Detail back, identity intact

  The model recovers eyes, skin texture and hair lost to blur or compression, and is told not to beautify, slim, age or otherwise alter anyone.

• New photos as much as old ones

  Compressed downloads from chat apps, digital zoom, a shaky shot at a party: the same fix applies.

• Every face in the frame

  Group photos are handled in one pass; each person is kept as they are.

• Focused unblur, not a full editor

  Firefly, Fotor, Picsart and Krea bury face sharpening inside broader suites. This page is only Unblur Face: upload, run, compare at full size. Preview with signup credits; free-plan downloads carry a small watermark.

• Part of the restore workflow

  Run it after Photo Restoration for old prints, and before the Upscaler when you want a larger file.

Every image model in one place

Pick any of these from the Model menu above; the price is shown before you generate. Each name links to what that model is good at. Compare every tier.

• Z-Image Turbo

  Alibaba · cheapest and fastest, text-to-image only

  1 credits per image

• Seedream 5 Pro · 1K

  ByteDance · same model as 2K at half the price

  9 credits per image

• GPT Image 2.5 Flare · 2K

  OpenAI · same price as Sunburst, tuned for speed and volume

  13 credits per image

• Qwen Image 3 · 2K

  Alibaba · strong at readable text inside the image

  6 credits per image

• Nano Banana

  Google Gemini 2.5 Flash · fastest, cheapest

  5 credits per image

• Nano Banana 2.1 · 1K

  Google · newest Nano Banana, sharper text, banner ratios

  10 credits per image

• Nano Banana 2.1 · 2K

  Google · same model at 2K

  15 credits per image

• Nano Banana 2.1 · 4K

  Google · for print or heavy cropping

  23 credits per image

• Ideogram V3 · Turbo

  Ideogram · text inside the image, fastest tier

  5 credits per image

• Ideogram V3 · Balanced

  Ideogram · text inside the image, posters and logos

  9 credits per image

• Ideogram V3 · Quality

  Ideogram · text inside the image, highest detail

  13 credits per image

• FLUX.1 Kontext

  Black Forest Labs · fastest, about 5s per image

  5 credits per image

• Seedream 5 Lite

  ByteDance · good at Chinese text and posters

  7 credits per image

• Seedream 5 Pro · 2K

  ByteDance · most photorealistic, highest detail

  18 credits per image

• GPT Image 2 · 2K

  OpenAI · good with text in images, half the price of 2.5

  7 credits per image

• GPT Image 2 · 4K

  OpenAI · for print or heavy cropping

  10 credits per image

• GPT Image 2.5 · 2K

  OpenAI · newest, better instruction following

  13 credits per image

• GPT Image 2.5 · 4K

  OpenAI · newest, highest resolution

  20 credits per image

Unblur Face specifications

Input

One JPG, PNG, WebP or HEIC up to 10 MB

Fixes

Blur, low resolution, JPEG artifacts, soft focus on faces

Leaves alone

Features, age, expression, body shape, background

Models

FLUX.1 Kontext by default; Nano Banana, Nano Banana 2.1, Seedream 5 Lite / Pro, GPT Image 2 / 2.5 and Ideogram V3 selectable

Sizes

Same as input, 1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 16:9

Output

PNG or JPEG depending on the model, saved to My Creations

Cost

5 to 20 credits per image, depending on the model

Time

About 25 seconds with FLUX.1 Kontext; Seedream around 50 seconds, GPT Image about a minute

Free plan

10 credits on sign-in — 10 images on the default model; free downloads carry a small watermark

How to use Unblur Face

1. Step 1

   Upload the photo

   Crop to the people if the faces are tiny in a wide shot; the model has more pixels to work with.

2. Step 2

   Keep the default model

   FLUX.1 Kontext is fast and conservative. Try Nano Banana if a face still looks soft.

3. Step 3

   Compare at full size

   Zoom into the eyes and hairline before you download. If it looks like a different person, rerun rather than accept it.

Get a better result

A few choices before you upload change the output more than any setting on this page.

• Crop to head and shoulders

  A face that fills the frame gives the model the most to work with. This matters more than the size of the original file.

• Repair the paper first

  On an old print, scratches and creases across a face confuse the reconstruction. Restore, then sharpen. Photo Restoration

• Compare at full size before you download

  Zoom into the eyes and hairline. If it reads as a different person, run it again or switch model rather than accepting it.