Cover faces before the photo travels
Kids' faces in a school post, a number plate in a for-sale listing, a screen full of names in a screenshot: blurring after the fact is the polite — and sometimes legally required — move. This tool covers regions two ways. Manual always works: drag a box over anything sensitive and choose pixelate, blur, or a solid black box. Automatic where available: browsers that ship the built-in FaceDetector API (Chrome, with the feature enabled) can find faces for you in one click — the tool checks and tells you honestly if yours can't, and the manual boxes work regardless.
How to use it
- Add the photo.
- Optionally run automatic detection, then drag boxes over anything it missed — and anything that is not a face (plates, badges, screens).
- Choose the cover style per drawing session: strong pixelation for privacy, a solid box when it absolutely must not leak.
- Look at the result closely — then download.
The honest safety note
Researchers have partly de-blurred weakly blurred text and faces. For anything genuinely sensitive — documents, plates, children's faces — use high strength or the solid box, and never share the original file alongside the covered one (the original is the leak, not the blur).