How to blur faces in a photo
A practical, three-step way to hide faces in any JPG or PNG photo — without handing the image to a third-party server.
3 photos per day free, 10 per day with a free account · runs entirely in your browser
Blurring faces is the fastest way to protect people's identities before a photo goes public: on social media, in listings, in reports, or in shared albums. The traditional route — opening an editor, drawing a blur over every face by hand — gets painful as soon as more than one face is involved.
Privacy Lens automates the tedious part. A face-detection model running in your browser scans the photo and highlights every face it finds. You stay in control: review each detection, add any that were missed by dragging a box, and remove any mistakes with a tap.
When you are happy with the selection, the blur is applied at the photo's full resolution and exported as a new file. The original stays untouched.
How to do it
- 1
Open the tool and drop your photo
No password needed for your first photo each day. The photo is loaded locally in your browser.
- 2
Check every highlighted face
Drag across a missed face to add it; tap a highlighted box to remove it. Undo/Redo is available.
- 3
Download the protected photo
The blurred version is a new JPG; the blur pixels are irreversible.
FAQ
- Does blurring really make a face unrecognizable?
- Privacy Lens uses a strong blur with safety padding around each detection, baked into the exported pixels. Always review the result before publishing.
- What about side or partially covered faces?
- Automatic detection covers typical front-facing faces. For difficult angles, drag a manual box over the area.
- Is my photo sent to a server for detection?
- No. Detection and blurring both run on your device.