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Blur faces in a photo

Faces are found automatically and blurred, pixelated or covered. Drag to hide anything else, such as licence plates, names or a screen, and download the result. The photo never leaves your device.

Drop a photo to blur facesJPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, GIF, TIFF, PSD, RAW and SVG. Nothing is uploaded. You can also paste a screenshot.

Faces are found on this device (the detector, about 17 MB, downloads once); the photo is never uploaded. You can also hide licence plates, names or screens by hand.

How it works

  1. Drop a photo. The faces are found and hidden at once.
  2. Choose blur, pixelate or a black box, and the strength.
  3. Drag on the picture to hide more areas; drag an area to move it, or its green corner to resize it.
  4. Download. The effect is applied to the full-size photo.

Blur, pixelate or cover

A strong blur or large pixels make a face unrecognisable for most purposes, and look softer in a published photo. A light blur can sometimes be partly undone, so keep the strength high for anything sensitive, or use the black box, which removes the pixels completely.

Questions

Does it find every face?

It finds most faces that look roughly towards the camera, including small faces in a group, by searching the photo in overlapping tiles. Faces in profile, covered by hands or very small can be missed, so check the preview and drag over any that are left.

Can I blur licence plates and other things?

Yes. Drag a box over anything: plates, house numbers, names on badges, documents or screens.

Is the photo sent anywhere for face detection?

No. Face detection is MediaPipe, running in your browser; the detector downloads from this site once and the photo stays on your device.

Can a blur be reversed?

Not from the downloaded file if the blur or pixels are strong: the detail is no longer in it. Weak blurs can sometimes be partly sharpened, which is why the strength starts high. The black box leaves nothing to recover.

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