Photo Blur & Censor Tool
Easily blur or pixelate faces, license plates, and other private information to protect your privacy.
Upload & Configure
Drag & drop your photo here
How It Works
- Upload your photo to get started.
- Choose your desired effect: Blur or Pixelate.
- In Auto Mode, click any detected face to toggle its effect.
- Switch to Manual Mode to use the brush for other areas (like license plates). You can undo strokes if you make a mistake.
- When finished, click "Download Image" to save your photo.
Workspace
Upload a photo to begin blurring.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the automatic face detection work?
This tool uses a pre-trained machine learning model (`face-api.js`) that runs directly in your browser. It has been taught to recognize the common patterns and features of human faces. When you upload an image, the model analyzes it to find these patterns and draws a box around them.
Why didn't it detect a face in my photo?
Face detection models are very good, but not perfect. Detection can sometimes fail if a face is turned to the side, obscured, in poor lighting, or at an unusual angle. If a face isn't detected, you can easily switch to 'Manual Mode' and use the blur or pixelate brush to cover it yourself.
Is this process secure?
Yes, 100% secure. All face detection analysis and image effects happen directly in your web browser. Your photos are never uploaded to a server, guaranteeing your privacy, which is especially important for a tool like this.
Protect Your Privacy: A Guide to Our Secure Photo Censor Tool
In an age where photos are shared instantly, protecting personal privacy has never been more important. Whether you're a journalist anonymizing sources, a parent sharing a group photo of kids, or just someone who wants to obscure sensitive information, you need a tool that is both powerful and secure. Our Photo Censor Tool is engineered to be that solution, offering intelligent automation, popular censor effects, and precise manual controls, all while guaranteeing your photos never leave your device.
Smart Censoring: One-Click Face Detection
The standout feature of our tool is its intelligent **Auto Mode**. Using a sophisticated machine learning model that runs directly in your browser, it can automatically identify and locate faces within your photo. You can choose between a classic **blur** or a modern **pixelate** effect. Once detected, each face is highlighted with a box, and you can simply click on any individual to toggle the effect on or off. This makes anonymizing group photos, street scenes, or classroom pictures an incredibly fast and simple process.
Precision Control: The Manual Brush with Undo
We know that not all sensitive information is a face. That's why we included a powerful **Manual Mode**. With the effect brush, you have the freedom to censor anything you need with precision:
- License Plates: Obscure vehicle license plates before posting car photos online.
- Document Redaction: Blur out names, addresses, or financial details on a screenshot of a document.
- Background Objects: Censor unwanted or distracting objects in the background of your photos.
With adjustable sliders for both **Effect Intensity** and **Brush Size**, you have complete creative control. And if you make a mistake, the handy **Undo button** lets you remove the last brush stroke without starting over.
The No-Upload Guarantee: Your Privacy is Paramount
The most important feature of a privacy tool is trust. Many online photo editors require you to upload your images to their servers, exposing your personal and potentially sensitive data to third parties. Our tool is fundamentally different.
The entire process—from face detection to blurring and pixelating—happens locally on your computer, inside your web browser. Your photos are never transmitted over the internet, never stored on a server, and are only ever seen by you. This client-side approach is the gold standard for security, guaranteeing that your images remain completely private.