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| title: AI Face Restoration | |
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| app_file: index.html | |
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| license: mit | |
| short_description: "Enlarge group photos and compare every face up close" | |
| tags: | |
| - face-restoration | |
| - face-enhancement | |
| - image-upscaling | |
| - super-resolution | |
| - image-restoration | |
| - image-to-image | |
| # Face Enhancer by the MegaPotato AI upscaler (megapotato.app) | |
| A free online face enhancer from the [MegaPotato AI upscaler](https://megapotato.app/?s=hf-face-enhancer-readme). | |
| Enlarge group photos, portraits and crowd shots ×2, ×4 or ×8, then pick any face on the photo and compare it before | |
| and after at the same spot and scale. In MegaPotato's | |
| [blind test of 18 AI upscalers](https://megapotato.app/blog/best-ai-image-upscalers-2026?s=hf-face-enhancer-readme), | |
| none of 67 small faces in group photos came out a different person; creative upscalers changed up to three in four. | |
| ## How to enhance the faces in a photo | |
| 1. Choose, drop or paste a PNG, JPEG or WebP photo. | |
| 2. Pick **×2**, **×4** or **×8**. The page shows the exact output size. | |
| 3. Click or tap the faces you want to check; each one gets a numbered box. You can do this before the run. | |
| 4. Press **Enhance faces**. Each box becomes a Before / After pair; drag a box to adjust it, switch the whole photo | |
| between Before and After. | |
| 5. To download the full-size result, upload the photo on [megapotato.app](https://megapotato.app/tool?s=hf-face-enhancer-readme) | |
| (new accounts get free chips). | |
| The boxes are placed by you. Nothing on the page detects or recognizes faces. The examples are real results. | |
| ## Free demo limits | |
| Log in to Hugging Face to enhance your own photos: **2 runs a day** in this Space (per network address, rolling | |
| 24 hours), with the same model and size limits as the product (up to 16 400 px per side). The examples work for | |
| everyone. | |
| ## How this Space works | |
| This Space is a static HTML page. Uploads go to a MegaPotato service on Cloudflare that holds the API key, applies | |
| the demo limits and passes the image to the MegaPotato API. The proprietary model runs on MegaPotato's GPUs; the | |
| model weights are not published. Images are handled under the MegaPotato | |
| [Privacy Policy](https://megapotato.app/privacy) and [Terms](https://megapotato.app/terms). Every image is reviewed | |
| automatically before processing, and images that may not meet our content rules are refused. The original is deleted | |
| once the run finishes and the result about an hour after the upload. | |
| The same model is available through the [MegaPotato REST API](https://megapotato.app/developers?s=hf-face-enhancer-readme). | |
| ## Feedback | |
| Use this Space's Community tab to report errors or share feedback. Only share images you are comfortable making | |
| public. | |
| ## Credits and licensing | |
| Example photos: Cavan football team, 1914, Bain News Service, and Italian grocer, New York, 1943, by Marjory Collins | |
| (U.S. Office of War Information), both Library of Congress, no known restrictions, public domain; two 19th-century | |
| studio portraits from Wikimedia Commons, Edward Noel Hodges, 1877 (J. C. Turner, London) and Arthur König, | |
| 1870–1885 (Julius Lawitzky, Berlin; Kunstbibliothek Berlin), both cartes de visite, public domain, copyright | |
| expired. The demo inputs | |
| are small copies of the archive scans; the results are real MegaPotato outputs. Sources, each input's recipe and its | |
| license are listed in `examples/examples.json`. Font: MP Humanist, a subset of Lato under the SIL Open Font License | |
| (`assets/fonts/OFL.txt`). Demo code: MIT license; access to the proprietary model and API is governed by the | |
| MegaPotato service terms. | |