# Can’t See Faces in Old Pics? I Depixelized Them Easy **URL:** \ **Category:** Discussion\ **Created:** [October 17, 2025, 2:06am UTC](https://community.hitpaw.com/t/can-t-see-faces-in-old-pics-i-depixelized-them-easy/3063 "2025-10-17T02:06:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CyberWarden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/858c86/32.png) [@CyberWarden](https://community.hitpaw.com/u/CyberWarden)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 2:06am UTC](https://community.hitpaw.com/t/can-t-see-faces-in-old-pics-i-depixelized-them-easy/3063/1 "2025-10-17T02:06:44Z")
Found an old group selfie from college—everyone’s face was so pixelated, I could barely tell who was who! Tried Face Depixelizer first: - Had to mess with Google Colab (total tech headache) - Only worked when we were facing the camera straight on (my friend was laughing sideways—still blurry) ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex008/uploads/hitpaw/original/1X/88eb017ba471bcf653153f11e8e1be65b0276b4d.jpeg) Then I grabbed HitPaw FotorPea—game over for pixelated faces! Here’s how simple it was: 📥 Dragged the selfie into the tool (no coding, no confusing steps!) 👩🔧 Tapped “Face Model” (it auto-found every pixelated face—smart!) ✅ Flipped on “Upscale” to sharpen features + “Denoise” to smooth grain 3 minutes later? Faces were clear—even my friend’s sideways grin looked natural. Batch-fixed 2 more old photos after that—no fakes, no weird artifacts. Got pixelated family pics or blurry selfies? Drop which one’s bugging you—I’ll tell you how to fix it! 👇