Source: https://restorebunny.com/guides/restore-photo-album-with-restorebunny/ # Restore a Photo Album with RestoreBunny: Credits, Settings and Downloads Plan a RestoreBunny album project from a three-photo pilot to credit selection, batch settings, result review and saved ZIPs. Includes a twelve-photo example. Family photo projects7 min readUpdated 06 October 2026 Quick answer ## The short version Prepare individual source files, try representative photos first, and use Album Restoration for groups with compatible settings. Standard batches accept up to ten photos. Check your credits before starting, review each result, and download files within the ten-day photo storage window. ## What Album Restoration does RestoreBunny's Album Restoration processes a group of uploaded photo files and provides progress and a ZIP when the album completes. It is a digital restoration workflow: you supply already captured images. Uploading a photograph of a page containing six pictures does not currently create six automatically separated photo files. Prepare those individual crops yourself and retain the page capture if its layout or captions matter. The standard account limit is ten photos per album batch. Account-specific entitlements may show another limit; follow the limit displayed in your dashboard. A collection larger than that is still manageable as several named batches. Start with a clear count of individual files, rather than the number of physical album pages, so the credit estimate and download reconciliation refer to the same items. ## Prepare an upload folder and a source folder 1. Capture the original prints or pages safely, and keep unedited digital masters outside RestoreBunny. Do not force a bound album flat or peel adhered photos out for an easier upload. 2. Give each individual photo a stable ID, such as ALB-02-p004-a. Keep a page-to-photo index when several crops came from one page. The uploaded filename and your local inventory should let you identify a result later. 3. Open each source and check orientation, focus, reflected glare and completeness. Retake a poor capture while you have access to the original if safe. Restoration cannot establish the true detail hidden beneath an opaque reflection. 4. Separate black-and-white photos you want to keep monochrome from photos you want colourised. Also isolate difficult faces and lettering for individual review rather than mixing everything into one shared-settings batch. ## Use the free allowance as a pilot An eligible new account starts with three free restorations. Choose three representative files and use Photo Restoration to test your settings before committing a larger group. For example, try one recognisable portrait, one scratched scene and one group photo. Keep Add Colors off when you want the monochrome character retained; switch it on only when an interpreted colour version is part of the job. Compare the downloaded pilot against the sources. Inspect eyes, expressions, hands, text and important clothing, and ask a relative to review familiar faces when possible. Keep or reject each result independently. A pilot checks whether this approach fits your images; it does not guarantee that every remaining file will work equally well. Credit planning counts successful processing, so an output you dislike may still have used a credit. ## Worked example: twelve photos and a ten-credit pack Imagine twelve prepared individual files and a new eligible account with three free credits. Three successful pilot restorations use those three credits, leaving nine unprocessed files. If your account is eligible for the Starter Pack, its current offer is £2 for ten credits. Nine successful album restorations then use nine of the purchased credits, leaving one. This is a planning example, not a checkout promise or a customer outcome. The arithmetic assumes one successful restoration per photo and no extra successful attempts. A second accepted processing attempt can use another credit; a restored file that you later reject is not the same as a technically failed job. Keep a reserve when exceptions are likely. If your eligible offer differs or the catalog changes, use the account's displayed balance, price and pack size instead of this example. ## Choose a pack for the remaining work - Small first project: check whether your account qualifies for the ten-credit Starter Pack. It is an eligible first-purchase offer, not an offer every existing customer can repeatedly buy. - Larger archive: the public Archive Pack currently lists 100 credits for £11. Compare that allowance with your remaining photos and expected extra successful processing steps. - Growing collection: the public Pro pack currently lists 150 credits for £14. Check the credit quantity and checkout price, and choose based on the work you plan to finish rather than automatically buying the largest pack. - Pack purchases are one-time purchases. Any separate membership or account-specific offer should be assessed on its own displayed terms; do not assume buying an ordinary credit pack starts a subscription. - Before payment: open Buy credits or the pricing page, confirm eligibility, currency, price and credited quantity, and compare them with your project count. This article does not reserve an offer or change billing terms. ## Start a small, named album batch 1. Open the dashboard and select Album Restoration. Give the batch a meaningful name, such as ALB-02 monochrome batch 01. Keep your local inventory as the stable record even if you later change the display name. 2. Add individual photo files up to the displayed limit. Confirm the count and inspect thumbnails for accidental duplicates, wrong orientation or a page image that still needs separate crops. 3. Choose Add Colors and Output Format for this group. JPEG is a practical photographic viewing file; transparent areas are flattened. PNG preserves supported transparency and may be larger. Neither format turns generated detail into authentic source evidence. 4. Check Credits needed and Your balance before starting. Start the album and watch its per-photo progress. You can switch dashboard tools and return to the running album; the progress view is where to check completion or an issue. 5. When the ZIP is available, download it and open the archive locally. Reconcile individual results against your inventory. A completed progress indicator is not a substitute for opening the delivery files. ## Review the batch and handle exceptions Review every important face, inscription and damaged region against the corresponding source. Mark each file accepted, needs another attempt or needs manual attention. Avoid changing settings for an entire successful batch because one photo needs a different treatment. Process that exception individually so its source, settings and revised result remain traceable. If the job reports an error, read the displayed status and recheck the balance before submitting again. Do not assume a failed item is an accepted restoration, or that another full batch is needed. Keep successful files you already downloaded and reconcile missing items separately. For distorted faces or meaningful text that repeated attempts cannot preserve, retain the original or use a controlled manual workflow. ## Save the delivery before the storage window ends RestoreBunny stores photos for ten days. Download and save the results before deletion; dashboard history is not a long-term family archive. Open the ZIP, confirm the files are readable and maintain a second backup. Keep originals, approved restorations and rejected experiments in clearly named locations so a relative can tell which version they received. A useful handoff includes stable photo IDs, an index connecting crops to page masters, a short note about colourisation and other changes, and a list of unresolved identifications. If a print is planned, check the actual restored file's dimensions and proposed crop using the free resolution checker and print-size comparison tools. Album completion and print suitability are separate checks. ## When to stop before buying a larger pack If the three-photo pilot changes recognisable identities, loses text or fails to address your main damage, buying more credits does not resolve the mismatch by itself. Improve the capture or select a different editing approach for those exceptions. For a collection with a few successful viewing copies and several difficult originals, finish the usable subset and document the rest instead of presenting all twelve as equally faithful. When the pilot passes, the next useful step is a small album batch with reviewed settings, rather than uploading an entire collection at once. Keep the worksheet, sources and approved downloads together. This gives the project a clear stopping point: a reconciled set of saved viewing copies, with original evidence and unresolved issues still available. ## FAQs Does Album Restoration separate several photos on one scanned page? No. Upload prepared individual photo files. Keep a full-page source and crop individual pictures before using the current album workflow. Can I restore more than ten photos in a project? Yes, as separate batches within your account's displayed batch limit. Standard batches accept up to ten photos; account-specific entitlements can differ. Does a result I dislike automatically mean no credit was used? No. One credit is used for each successful restoration. A successfully generated output you reject for visual quality is different from a job that fails technically. Check job status and your balance before another attempt. Is the dashboard a permanent backup of my album? No. Photos are stored for ten days. Download, open and back up originals and approved results locally before deletion. ## Sources Preservation and technical guidance reviewed for this article. - RestoreBunny: [Current RestoreBunny credit-pack pricing]() - U.S. National Archives: [Digitizing Family Papers and Photographs]() - RestoreBunny: [RestoreBunny data and storage policy]() ## Related - [Evaluate the three-photo pilot]() - [Prepare individual album crops with page context]() - [Review faces, damage and text]() - [Start your album project]() - [Check current credit packs]() - [Download the archive handoff kit]() ## Ready to restore your photos? 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