Photo Restoration
For the scanned print from the shoebox. Scratches, creases and fading repaired in one pass.
About 10s1 photo
10 tools · one account · nothing to install
AI photo editor,
one job at a time.
Leaxor's AI photo editor is ten small tools rather than one crowded app. Each does a single job: restore an old print, add colour, upscale, cut out a background, erase an object or a watermark, turn a selfie into a headshot or a 1985 snapshot, swap a face, or merge photos into one. Upload, wait a few seconds, download.
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Ten AI photo tools, grouped by the job
Most people arrive with one problem, not a project. So each problem gets its own page and its own upload box, and nobody has to hunt through a toolbar for the right button. Find the group, then the tool.
Fix a photo
Old, faded or too small. These keep the picture you have and repair it.
Photo Colorizer
Adds natural colour to a black and white photograph, with orders to leave faces and detail exactly as they are.
About 18s1 photo
Image Upscaler
Roughly doubles each side of a small image, working from up to 1,200px on the long side.
About 3s1 photo
Take something out
The photo is fine apart from one thing in it. The erasers ask you to brush over what should go; the background remover finds the subject on its own.
Background Remover
Cuts the subject out and hands back a transparent PNG. Built for hair and fine edges.
About 3s1 photo
Object Remover
Brush over the bin, the stranger or the power line. It's erased and the background is filled in behind it.
About 10s1 photoBrush
Watermark Remover
Brush over a watermark on an image you own or are licensed to edit, and it's gone.
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Make something new from it
These don't repair the photo. They make a new picture from it, and all but one are told to keep the face you gave them. Face swap's whole job is to change it.
AI Headshot Generator
A selfie becomes a studio-lit headshot for LinkedIn or a team page, in smart clothes against a plain backdrop.
About 16s1 photo
80s AI Photo Generator
Your selfie redone as a flash-lit snapshot from 1985, date stamp and all. Solo and couple styles.
About 30s1–2 photos
AI Face Swap
Puts the face from one photo onto the person in another and keeps their hair, clothes and background.
About 44s2 photos
AI Image Combiner
Merges two to four images into one scene, matching light, perspective and scale.
About 22s2–4 photos
What runs each tool, and how long it takes
A photo editor is only as good as the model behind each button, and most apps don't say which model that is. Here's ours. The table is read from the same configuration the tools run on, so when a tool changes model, this changes with it.
| Tool | Engine | Typical wait | Photos in | Longest side sent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Photo Restoration | Photo Restoration · fal | About 10s | 1 photo | 1,600px |
| Photo Colorizer | Seedream 4.5 Edit · ByteDance | About 18s | 1 photo | 1,600px |
| Image Upscaler | ESRGAN · open source | About 3s | 1 photo | 1,200px |
| Background Remover | BiRefNet v2 · open source | About 3s | 1 photo | 1,600px |
| Object Remover | Bria Eraser · Bria | About 10s | 1 photo + brush | 1,600px |
| Watermark Remover | Bria Eraser · Bria | About 10s | 1 photo + brush | 1,600px |
| AI Headshot Generator | Seedream 4.5 Edit · ByteDance | About 16s | 1 photo | 1,600px |
| 80s AI Photo Generator | Seedream 4.5 Edit · ByteDance | About 30s | 1–2 photos | 1,280px |
| AI Face Swap | Seedream 5.0 Pro Edit · ByteDance | About 44s | 2 photos | 1,280px |
| AI Image Combiner | Seedream 4.5 Edit · ByteDance | About 22s | 2–4 photos | 1,024px |
“Longest side sent” is the ceiling your browser scales a photo down to before uploading it. That keeps each run inside the time limit. The multi-photo tools send smaller images so several fit in one request. Page reviewed 28 September 2026.
How each engine got the job
Every engine was called with a real image before it went in, and the candidates that lost were written down. The single-photo jobs were tested on 20 August 2026, one 400×300 image per candidate. The multi-photo jobs were tested on 28 August with two portraits generated for the test, so no real person's face was sent to a provider.
The editing model
Seedream 4.5 Edit, which runs the colorizer, the headshots, the 80s photos and the combiner, answered in 16 to 18 seconds. Nano Banana Pro's edit took 27.8 seconds at roughly five times the price. Flux 2 Pro's edit took 75.8 seconds and was cut. A tool that can't finish inside the time limit gets a faster model, not a queue.
Background removal
BiRefNet v2 came back in 2.9 seconds. rembg, a popular open-source remover, took 4.7 seconds and cut coarser edges. BiRefNet was designed for high-resolution segmentation, which is where hair and fur get decided.
Restoration
The restoration model that shipped finished in 9.8 seconds. A second version of the same job took 26.6 seconds. Same job, 2.7 times the wait, so it lost.
Colour
There was no dedicated colorizer to use: both colorization endpoints on our provider answered 404. So the colorizer is an edit with a written instruction to add colour and leave the composition, faces and detail exactly as they are.
Erasing and face swap
Both have their own write-ups. The eraser that turned a 400×300 photo into a 400×304 one is in the real-estate photo editing roundup. The two face-swap models that returned a good-looking portrait without swapping anything are in the AI avatar comparison.
What this AI photo editor won't do
Better to know before you upload than after.
- Layers, a history panel or selections beyond a brush. It isn't Photoshop or Lightroom and isn't trying to be.
- Edits you type. You can't write “make the sky purple” the way you would in ChatGPT or Gemini. Each tool does its one job, which is why its results are predictable.
- Batches. One photo at a time, or one set of photos for the multi-photo tools.
- Full-size files. Photos are scaled to between 1,024 and 1,600 pixels on the long side before they're sent.
- Pictures you don't have the right to change. The watermark remover is for images you own or are licensed to edit, and the face swap is for photos you have permission to use. In the US that line is also law: removing a watermark that identifies an image's owner can breach 17 U.S.C. § 1202, and since May 2025 the TAKE IT DOWN Act has made publishing an intimate deepfake of a real person without consent a federal crime.
If the picture you need doesn't exist yet, editing is the wrong starting point. Leaxor's image generator makes one from a prompt on 10 models, and the prompt library has ready-made starting points.
What happens to your photo
Every tool on this page runs on a server, because the models are far too big for a browser. Your photo goes to fal, the processing provider, for that one run. Leaxor keeps no copy of it and no copy of the result.
What is recorded is the run: which tool, whether it worked, the account it belongs to, and the IP address and rough location it came from. That record is what lets the tools stay free without being abused. The privacy policy covers it in full.
If nothing may leave your device, the resizer, cropper, converter and compressor in the free tools directory run entirely in your browser, with no account.
What it costs
Every tool needs an account, and an account costs nothing. After that it depends on the tool.
| Nine of the photo tools | A few free runs a day, shared across the tools. When they're used up, the tools stop until tomorrow. |
|---|---|
| The 80s photo generator | Three free photos per account, then 2 credits ($0.20) each. |
| A new image from a prompt | 1–3 credits, depending on the model. |
Credits cost $0.10 each, bought 50or more at a time, and never expire. There's no subscription. The free runs also sit under a site-wide daily cap, so on a busy day the tools can pause until tomorrow even if you haven't used yours. Details on the pricing page.
AI photo editor — frequently asked questions
Does the AI photo editor cost money?
Not to start. Nine of the ten tools give a few free runs a day with an account, shared across the tools, and stop until the next day once they're used. The 80s photo generator is counted per account instead: three free photos, then 2 credits ($0.20) each. There's no subscription.
Is there an AI photo editor with no restrictions?
Not here, and be wary of one that says so. The face swap only takes photos you have the right to use, and the watermark remover only images you own or are licensed to edit. Every run needs a real account and is logged against it. That's what lets the tools stay free without turning into a way to fake pictures of strangers.
Is there an AI photo editor that doesn't change faces?
The colorizer, the headshot generator and the 80s generator all send the model an explicit instruction to keep the person's features unchanged. It's an instruction, not a guarantee, so check the eyes, brows and smile before you use the result. The 80s generator's page shows how the face held up across three test runs. Face swap is the exception: changing the face is its job.
Does it keep the quality of my photo?
It keeps the picture, but not every pixel. Before a photo is sent, your browser scales it so the longest side is at most 1024 to 1600 pixels, depending on the tool, so each run finishes inside the time limit. For a phone photo that means a smaller file back than you sent. If size matters, run the upscaler afterwards.
Is it an AI photo editor like ChatGPT or Gemini?
No. In ChatGPT or Gemini you describe the change in words and the model decides how to make it. Here each tool does one fixed job, so there's nothing to phrase and the result is more predictable, but you can't ask for an edit that no tool offers. For a picture that doesn't exist yet, the image generator makes one from a prompt.
Is the AI photo editor safe to use?
Your photo goes to a processing provider for that one run, and Leaxor keeps no copy of it or of the result. What is recorded is the run itself: the tool, whether it worked, the account, and the IP address and rough location it came from. The privacy policy has the detail.
Is there an AI photo editor app for iPhone or Android?
There's no app to install. Every tool is a web page that works in Safari or Chrome on a phone: tap to choose a photo from your camera roll, wait, and save the result. The brush on the erasers works with a finger.
What is the best AI photo editor?
The one built for your job. Photoshop and Lightroom are for layered, manual control. Photoroom is for product cutouts at catalogue volume. A chat model is for edits you'd rather describe than do. One-job tools like these suit the common case: one photo and one problem.
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