What is the best ai photo enhancer for improving image quality?

Yeah, I’ve been there — I scanned a bunch of old family photos too, and about half were blurry or grainy. Honestly, the best AI photo enhancer I’ve used so far is Topaz Photo AI — it’s crazy good at making faces sharp again and cleaning up old scans without killing the details. You just drop a photo in and let it do its magic.

If you prefer something free and command-line based, try Real-ESRGAN or GFPGAN — both are open-source AI photo enhancer tools that you can run locally. Here’s how I usually do it:

# 1. Install dependencies
pip install realesrgan

# 2. Enhance a single photo
realesrgan-ncnn-vulkan -i input.jpg -o output.jpg

# 3. Or enhance all photos in a folder
for %f in (*.jpg) do realesrgan-ncnn-vulkan -i "%f" -o "enhanced\%~nf.jpg"

And for face restoration with GFPGAN, this works great:

pip install gfpgan python -m gfpgan -i input.jpg -o output --upscale 2

Both can turn old, faded pictures into something you’d actually want to frame again — it’s like watching your memories come back to life.