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Why faces are the hardest part to unblur

People notice faces first. A slightly soft tree or wall goes unseen, but a blurry eye or a smeared mouth ruins the whole picture. Faces are also where generic sharpening fails worst: an old sharpen filter raises contrast along every edge, so pores turn into noise and eyelashes into hard lines, while the eye itself stays soft.

An AI model works differently. It looks at the whole face and redraws the fine detail the blur hid: the edge of the iris, single strands of hair, the line of the lips. The risk is the opposite one. A model that is free to redraw can also drift, giving someone slightly different eyes or a smoother, younger face. That is why UnblurPix treats people photos with extra care.

How Portrait mode keeps people looking like themselves

When you pick a photo here, your browser looks for faces before anything is uploaded. On this page the tool starts in Portrait mode, which adds one instruction to the AI: keep each person’s identity, expression, eyes and skin texture exactly as they are, and do not beautify.

When the result comes back, we compare it with your photo. The layout has to line up, the colors have to stay close, and every face found in your original has to be in the same place with the same shape. If a face moved or changed, UnblurPix asks another model to redo the photo once, for free, and shows you both versions.

You still have the final word. The comparison slider lets you check each face at full size. The Fidelity slider blends the result back toward your original if it went too far, and the Restore brush paints the original back into any spot, for example a mouth you want left exactly as it was.

Which tier to use for people photos

Standard gives a full 2K result from one AI model and is free 2 times a day, or 4 with a free account. It is enough for most phone photos you want to share.

Pro costs 3 credits. Two different AI models work on the same photo and you see both results side by side. For faces this matters most: one model may get the eyes right and the other the hair, and you keep the one that looks most like the real moment.

4K costs 6 credits and gives a 4K result, for photos you plan to print large or frame.

Getting the best result from a portrait

• Start from the original file. A screenshot or a photo forwarded through a chat app has been shrunk and compressed, which removes the detail the AI uses to rebuild a face.
• Crop to the people. If the picture is mostly background, crop around the faces before you start. The AI spends its attention where you point it.
• Look at the eyes first. Zoom in on the eyes in the comparison view. If they look painted on, lower the Fidelity slider or try Pro for a second opinion.
• Keep it believable. Choose the version that looks most like the person, not the sharpest one.

What unblurring a photo can and can’t do

AI unblurring rebuilds plausible detail from what is still visible. It does not recover lost information. When a face is clear enough to recognize in the original, the result will be the same person, only sharper. When a face is a smudge of a few pixels, any model can only guess, and the result is a face that fits the photo rather than a record of who was there. Don’t treat such a result as evidence.

It also can’t undo deliberate hiding. A face or a number plate that was pixelated or blurred on purpose has had its detail thrown away, and our terms don’t allow using UnblurPix to unmask people who chose to stay hidden, or to remove watermarks from pictures you don’t own.

Photos of people and your privacy

Photos of people are personal. Your photo goes to our storage and to the AI provider only to make your result, and we don’t use it to train AI. Free photos and results are deleted after 24 hours, or kept for 7 days if you used credits. Only you can open your download links, and they expire after 60 minutes. Please only upload photos you have the right to use.