Processed in your browser · never sent to our servers
Blur a face in a photo
Cover bystanders in a hallway shot, school pickup, or delivery photo before you post. Find faces suggests boxes, or drag your own. Face blur is not identity-proof. Cover the whole head.
Blur a face in three steps
- 1
Open the photo
Choose the file from your phone or computer, or paste it. It opens in this tab. Nothing is sent to BlurThis.
- 2
Cover the face
Tap Find faces for suggestions, or drag your own box. Cover the whole head, not just the eyes. Blur and Pixelate are looks; neither is identity-proof.
- 3
Download the PNG
Download the PNG and share that copy, not the original.
What Find faces will not save you from
Detection is a starting list, not a clearance stamp. Side profiles in car windows, faces behind glass, toddlers half-turned toward a cake, and tiny heads in a stadium shot routinely get skipped. After you tap Find faces, scroll the full frame once more the way you would proofread a message: top to bottom, then corners. If you are sending the photo to a parent group or a news desk, that second pass is the job.
Count heads, then count boxes
Find faces is good at front-facing faces and weak on profiles, reflections, sunglasses, and tiny heads in a crowd. Count the people you can see. Then count the boxes. If the numbers disagree, drag the misses yourself. The model runs in this tab after a one-time load; your photo stays on your device.
A bar across the eyes is a magazine look, not privacy. Hair, a badge, glasses frames, and clothes still identify someone. Cover the head with a little padding past the ears and chin. Open the downloaded file at full size before you send it. Sharing the original by mistake is a common fail. No. Your file stays in this browser tab. We never get a copy. A wait while the file opens is not an upload.
When soft blur is enough, and when it is not
Soft blur or pixelate can be enough for a bystander who should not be the subject of a social post. It is not enough when recognition itself is the risk: minors, confidential sources, patients, or coworkers who did not consent to appear. In those cases use a heavy cover or an opaque black bar, and prefer a crop that removes the person entirely when the story does not need them in frame.
Blur and pixelate are different looks at the same strength settings. Do not treat pixelate as a stronger “secure mode.” Recovery myths and what can come back from a weak smear are covered in what comes back from a blur.
Group photos, mirrors, and background people
Hallway mirrors and glass doors often duplicate a face. Cover both. In a crowd, decide who matters before you start: the person you intend to show can stay sharp; everyone else gets a box. If a name tag or jersey number sits next to a covered face, cover that too. Identity is more than skin pixels.
For brush-shaped covers on awkward outlines, see blur with a brush. For a fuller still-image pixelation walkthrough, read pixelate faces in a picture online. Moving faces in clips belong on the video tool (no auto tracking; Video: 50 MB in, 90 seconds out, 720-pixel longest edge. No opaque black bar on video.).
