# Rescuing a faded, blurry or chat-compressed photo before you animate it

Image-to-video keeps whatever your still already has: layout, colour and faces carry into the motion. That also means a soft or blocky photo stays soft and blocky once it moves. Cleaning the still first is usually cheaper than rerunning a video.

Three common problems the enhancer is meant for:

- **Faded prints**: old photos scanned or shot with a phone.
- **Missed focus**: the subject is slightly soft.
- **Chat-app compression**: pictures that were forwarded a few times and picked up blocky edges.

How it fits into a run:

- Run the [photo enhancer](https://vorapix.ai/photo-enhancer) on the still. The default engine works on the free tier at 6 credits a pass.
- Check the result at full size, then send the cleaned image into image-to-video.
- Every run shows its credit price before you generate, and failed runs refund their credits automatically.

The enhancer, the video studio and the image studio share one credit balance on [Vorapix](https://vorapix.ai/).

Vorapix is an independent AI studio; Kling, Seedance, Grok Imagine and Nano Banana are third-party models, and their makers are not affiliated with Vorapix.