imagerepair

noun
UK /ˈɪmɪdʒ rɪˈpeə/
US /ˈɪmɪdʒ rɪˈper/

The act of fixing a broken or bad picture so it looks good again.

The photo app has a tool for image repair that removed the scratch from my old family picture.


OTHER MEANINGS

2. Fixing damage to a digital image file so it opens and displays correctly.

The technician used image repair software to recover the corrupted JPEG.

3. Improving how a company or person is seen by the public.

The celebrity hired a team for image repair after the scandal.

4. In computing, the process of correcting errors in a stored picture's data.

Image repair algorithms can fill in missing pixels.