Blur faces and license plates

Step by step

1. Drop your photos. The first time, the AI models are loaded and a bar shows the progress. After that, each further photo is much quicker.
2. Under “What to hide?” choose whether “Faces”, “License plates” or both should be hidden, and set “Style” to Pixelate, Blur or Black bar. “Strength” controls how coarse the pixels and blur are.
3. Check the large preview. Boxes with a dashed green frame will be hidden, red ones stay visible. Below the image you can see how many faces and plates were found.
4. Tap a box to switch it off or back on. Drag a rectangle to hide something extra. A rectangle you drew disappears again when you tap it.
5. With several photos a gallery appears with small previews and the number of hits per photo. Tap a photo to check and correct it in the large view.
6. Save the photo shown with “Download”, or all finished photos with “Download all as ZIP”. The files have “-blurred” added to their names.

What you can use it for

• Street scenes: Photos of street parties, parades or building sites often show passers-by and parked cars. Both can be hidden in one go before the pictures go on a website.
• Documents and screens in a photo: Photos of a desk or a vehicle registration document show names, addresses or numbers. The AI only looks for faces and plates, so cover such spots with a rectangle you draw yourself.
• Evidence and damage photos: If you want to show a problem in a forum, such as a parking dent or water damage, you can make bystanders and other people's plates unrecognizable first.
• Presentations and training: Real photos from everyday work look more convincing on slides. With faces hidden, you can show them without putting colleagues on display.

Selling a car? Plates gone in seconds

You took twenty photos for the listing and the number plate is on every one? Just drop them all at once. The AI finds the plate in each image and pixelates it. At the end you download everything together as a ZIP.

People in the picture? No need to reshoot

You're selling something and family, friends or strangers are clearly visible in the background? Instead of taking every photo again, the tool pixelates the faces automatically. Handy for club photos, blogs or newsletters too, when not everyone wants to be shown.

Fine-tune it yourself

• Tap a box to switch it off, for example for your own face.
• Drag a rectangle to hide something extra, like a name, a house number or a second plate.
• Choose between pixelate, blur and a black bar.

A quick check is always worth it: the AI won't catch every face seen from the side or every very small plate.

Related guides

• Blur a license plate – for car listings
• Blur faces – automatically