Blur every face in a photo
Add a group photo and each face found is blurred or pixelated, ready to check and post. It all happens on your device.
Drop a photo to blur the faces, or click to choose
JPG, PNG or WebP. It stays on your device.
How to blur every face in a photo
- Add the photo. The faces are looked for on your device as soon as it opens, and each one found is blurred.
- Keep anyone who should stay visible. Tap a face to take its blur off. Tap it again to blur it once more.
- Check the whole photo. Look for faces the search missed, such as small, turned or half-hidden ones, and drag a box over each.
- Download. The saved file has the blur in its pixels, not as a layer someone could remove.
What it finds, and what it can miss
It looks over the whole photo, then over smaller and smaller parts of it, so faces at the back of a class or team photo are found as well as those in front. In a posed group photo of about forty people we tried, it found all but a few faces that were half hidden behind someone else or under a cap and sunglasses.
It finds faces turned towards the camera best. A face in profile, one looking down at a phone, a face mostly covered by a hand or a mask, or one only a few pixels across can be missed, and in a crowd caught by surprise most of the faces may be. The panel says how many faces it blurred; compare that with the people you can see, and cover any face it missed with a box or the brush before you post.
Blur or pixelate
Blur softens each face into a smooth shape. Pixelate turns it into large squares, the look news footage uses. Both hide the face when Strength is high. Strength is measured against each face’s own size, so a small face in the back row is hidden as well as a large one in front, and changing it changes every face at once.
Each blurred face is an oval that reaches past the hairline, ears and chin, because hair and the shape of a head identify people too. Every face is also a box like one you drew: select it to move or resize it with the arrow keys, or press Delete to keep that face sharp.
Before you share it
Faces are not the only thing that identifies people. A name badge, a school logo, a number plate or a house number can say who someone is or where they live. Blur those with a box in the same session, or see how to blur all the faces in a group photo for a checklist.
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