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How the AI Image Enhancer Works
Choose a mode, upload once, and compare the result before you download.
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Choose a mode
Pick Photo for overall lighting and color, Face for portrait retouching, Skin for natural-looking skin, or Upscale for larger output dimensions. - 2
Upload your image
Upload a JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, or other common image, or pick a frame from a video. The selected mode starts as soon as the upload is ready. - 3
Compare and download
Drag the slider to compare before and after, then download. Switch modes to reuse the same image; each mode keeps its own results.
AI Image Enhancer Examples
One before-and-after example for each mode.
Which AI Image Enhancer Mode Should You Use?
Pick the mode that matches what your image needs. Each mode is also available as a dedicated tool.
Photo mode
Best for one-click improvements to lighting, color, sharpness, and overall polish. Also available as the AI Photo Enhancer.
Face mode
Best for naturally retouching faces and making portraits look more flattering and polished. Also available as the AI Face Enhancer.
Skin mode
Best for fixing facial skin that looks fake, plastic, overly smooth, or overprocessed. Also available as the AI Skin Enhancer.
Upscale mode
Best when the image already looks good and you mainly need higher resolution or a larger size. Also available as the AI Image Upscaler.
Testimonials
Hear what our users have to say
"Magic Hour is the fastest way I've found to go from an idea to a polished image or video. It's simple, the results are consistent, and it's easy to iterate. It feels like a real creator tool."
Vishal Sankhat
Instagram Creator (534K followers)
"Magic Hour is a powerful AI tool for creating video, photo, and even voice content all in one place. Being able to generate videos up to 60 seconds from a single prompt is something most similar platforms still don't offer."
Daniel Davidson
YouTube Creator (194k subscribers)
"Magic Hour is one of the few AI tools I genuinely trust. Most tools are hit or miss, but Magic Hour feels reliable. I know what I'm going to get, which makes it easy to use regularly for social content."
Nasion Patriotik
Social Media Creator (1.8M followers)
"Most AI tools look impressive at first, but they're hard to rely on once you use them regularly. Magic Hour has been different for me. It's easy to use, the results are consistent, and I can get something polished without spending time fixing or redoing things. It fits naturally into how I create, which is why I keep coming back to it."
Lisa Li
Multimedia Designer at Rakuten Viki
AI Image Enhancer FAQ
An AI image enhancer, or image quality enhancer, improves an image automatically. Magic Hour's AI Image Enhancer puts four modes in one workspace: Photo for overall lighting, color, and sharpness; Face for portrait retouching; Skin for natural-looking skin texture; and Upscale for larger output dimensions.
Use Photo when the whole image needs better lighting, color, contrast, or sharpness. Use Face to retouch a portrait while keeping it natural. Use Skin when facial skin looks plastic, overly smooth, or overprocessed. Use Upscale when the image already looks good and you mainly need higher resolution or a larger size.
Photo, Face, and Skin change how an image looks, such as its lighting, facial detail, or skin texture. Upscale increases the output dimensions and sharpens detail: 2x without an account, or 4x after you sign in.
Upload a JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, AVIF, TIFF, BMP, or JPEG 2000 image up to 100 MB, or upload an MP4, MOV, or WebM video and pick a frame. In Upscale mode, images larger than 2048 pixels on the longest side can be downscaled to continue for free, or opened in the signed-in upscaler for higher input resolution.
Yes. You can start with no account. Photo, Face, and Skin share 3 free enhancements per day, and Upscale includes 3 free upscales per day. Switching modes does not reset your daily allowance. Sign up for free to unlock account-specific credits and rewards, saved projects, and access to more tools.
No. Every mode works in your browser with no account, no sign up, and nothing to install. Sign up for free to unlock account-specific credits, rewards, and saved projects. Signing in also unlocks 4x upscaling and adjustable enhancement intensity.
Yes. Your uploaded image carries over to the next mode, and each mode keeps its own results while you stay on the page. Switching modes never starts a new enhancement on its own; run the new mode when you are ready.
No. Results from every mode download without a watermark, including for free users with no sign up.
Yes, any images you create on Magic Hour are yours. Paid subscribers and credit-pack customers can use them for commercial purposes, while users without either purchase are limited to personal, non-commercial use.
We Value Your Privacy & Data Security, Always
Commercial use, training, deletion, retention (1 day), and security. Retention:1 day
Commercial use
Subscriptions and credit packs permit commercial use of outputs. Users without either purchase are limited to personal, non-commercial use.
No training
We do not use your uploads or outputs to train our models.
Delete anytime
You can delete your content or account at any time. Deletion removes content from active storage immediately.
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Encrypted in transit and at rest. Access is restricted for operations and support.