--- title: AI Face Restoration emoji: 🙂 colorFrom: green colorTo: gray sdk: static app_file: index.html pinned: false 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.