AI actions

AI actions are fixes for the photos that need more than a preset — an old print with soft faces, a black-and-white scan, a high-ISO frame full of grain, a scan covered in dust and scratches, a small file you want bigger, a subject you want cut out. Each one does a single job with a model and settings we picked and tested, so there is nothing to configure; Restore Old Photo does three of them in one go. The result arrives as a new photo next to the original, which is never changed.

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The actions

A photo larger than an action can take is scaled down first, which is why the sizes above have a ceiling.

Restore Old Photo

Made for a scanned family print: one click repairs the faces, adds color if the photo has none, and makes it four times larger. Each step works on what the step before made, and only the finished photo is saved — next to the original, which is never changed.

Whether a photo gets Colorize is decided on the photo itself before anything runs: a black-and-white print, or one toned or faded to a single tint, is colorized; a photo whose colors still differ — even faded ones — is not, so Colorize never paints over colors that are really there. If you want it anyway, run Colorize on the result.

If a step fails, the job says which one ("failed at step 2 of 3 (Colorize)"), nothing after it runs, and the photo uses no AI actions — you can resume the job to try again.

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Running an action

1. Select one or more photos in the library — or open one.
2. Choose Process in the selection bar — or Process… from a photo's ⋯ menu, on its tile or in the bar above an open photo. The same dialog holds the presets; the AI actions come after them, under AI actions.
3. Pick the action. The proof beside the list shows your photo with the action's icon — the result itself only exists once the action has run — and what the action does. Above the button, the dialog says how many AI actions the selected photos use — one per photo, or up to three per photo for Restore Old Photo — and how many you have left this month. On the Free plan the AI actions are marked Pro: Free includes none, so picking one says so, with an Upgrade button.
4. Click the button, which says what it will do — Process 12 photos.

The job runs in the background; a progress card in the corner counts the photos done, and View job opens the details. The results go next to each original unless you pick another folder under Save to.

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How many you have

Each photo an action runs on uses one AI action:

Restore Old Photo uses one for each step it runs on the photo: 3 for a black-and-white photo, 2 for a photo already in color, whose Colorize step is skipped. A photo counts only when it is done — one whose job failed or was cancelled uses none — but to start, the dialog needs 3 left for each photo.

Draft captions on an album makes no new photo: it drafts captions and chapter titles from text, and uses one for every 50 drafts, rounded up — see Draft captions and chapter titles.

The count starts over every month, on yearly plans too — Account → Usage says on which day. It also shows how many are left and which photos they went on — or, for drafted captions, which album and how many drafts. When you run out, the dialog tells you and offers a bigger plan — there is nothing to buy per photo. See Pricing.

What leaves Media Moana

To run an action, a copy of the photo made for the purpose — upright, scaled down to what the model takes, without its metadata, so without its location — is sent to the model provider that runs it; the privacy policy names each one. We don't train any model on your photos.

For resizing, cropping for social media, preparing prints or converting formats, use the presets instead — they run without AI and use none of your AI actions.