

Pixelate Image Online — Blur Faces and Plates in a Photo Free
Works with JPG, PNG, WEBP
Select an area or use face detection, then apply pixelation or blur before downloading.
- Select any area to pixelate or blur — no cropping
- Auto-detect and hide every face in one tap
- Full-quality download · free to use · no watermark
Drop a photo — mark what to hide and download the censored copy
Tips for the best result
• Pixelate for a solid, un-reversible censor; blur for a softer look
• Raise the strength for faces and IDs so no detail is recoverable
• Add several boxes to hide multiple faces, plates or names at once
About the Pixelate & Blur tool
Redact anything you do not want shared — faces, house numbers, licence plates, ID cards, screen contents or private text. Draw a box over each area and the tool covers it with a pixel mosaic or a soft blur, or detects every face automatically. The mosaic or blur is drawn on a canvas in your browser, so previews are instant and the downloaded image keeps its full, original quality. Your photo is uploaded over HTTPS so the tool can open it, and automatic face detection runs on our servers.
How It Works
1. Upload the photo you want to censor
2. Drag a box over each area, or tap Auto-detect faces
3. Choose pixelate or blur and set the strength
4. Download the censored photo — clean, full quality, no watermark
Perfect For
• Hiding faces before posting to social media
• Blurring licence plates, house numbers and addresses
• Redacting names, IDs and card numbers in screenshots
• Protecting bystanders and children in shared photos
How to pixelate or blur faces, license plates and text in a photo
This tool hides part of a photo behind a pixel mosaic or a soft blur. Draw a box over each area, or let it detect faces for you, choose Pixelate or Blur, set the strength and download the censored copy. Use it before you post a picture that shows bystanders, children, house numbers, license plates, ID cards or private text, and check the result at full size.
Pixelate part of an image
Upload a photo and drag a box over each area you want to hide. Boxes can be moved and resized with their handles, and one image holds up to 24 areas. Choose Pixelate for a block mosaic or Blur for a soft smear, then set Censor strength between Subtle and Strong. The picture updates as you work, and the censored copy downloads as a PNG named after your file with _censored added.
- Upload the photo you want to censor.
- Drag a box over each area to hide, or select Add a box in the middle for the first box and move it into place.
- Choose Pixelate or Blur under Effect.
- Raise Censor strength until nothing in the box is readable.
- Download the censored PNG.
Blur every face in a group photo
Open the Areas tab and select Auto-detect faces. The tool adds a box over each face it finds, which is much faster than drawing boxes around a crowd. Remove any box you want to keep visible with Remove this area, and add boxes by hand for faces it missed, such as a small or turned one. The Areas hidden count shows how many boxes are in place, and Clear all areas starts over.
Hide a license plate, a name or a house number
Draw a box that covers the whole plate, name or number with a little margin, because a box that stops short can leave the edge characters readable. Raise Censor strength until the characters cannot be read at full size, and zoom in on the preview to check before you share. Add one box per item. For text inside a PDF, redact it with the automatic PDF redactor instead.
Know the limits of pixelating and blurring
Pixelation and blur reduce detail, and a strong setting makes it unreadable at normal size, but neither can promise that nothing can ever be recovered, especially from a light effect on a large, sharp photo. For anything that must stay private, such as a card number or a face in a public photo, set the strength high and check at full size, or crop the area out of the frame. When the whole setting is private rather than a few areas, blur everything behind the subject.
Before you share the censored photo
- Zoom in to full size and confirm that every hidden face, plate and number is unreadable.
- Look for the same detail elsewhere in the frame, such as a reflection, a second sign or a badge.
- Keep your original file, because a censored copy cannot be restored.
Other privacy checks before you share
Faces are only part of what a photo can reveal, so inspect the location and device details stored in the file before posting. For an event or class photo, estimate the headcount before faces are covered, or blur the whole background behind your subject when the scene itself is private.
What you can do with Pixelate & Blur Image
Review the main capabilities before you begin.
- Blur faces to protect people's privacy
- Pixelate license plates in a photo
- Hide names, addresses and sensitive details
- Auto-detect faces and censor them fast
- Draw over any area you want to obscure
- Adjust how strong the censoring looks
Settings reference
5 settings
Available controls for Pixelate & Blur Image.
- Processing modePresets
- Process one input, or switch to Premium batch mode to process multiple inputs with shared settings. Available input types depend on the tool.Options: Single imageBatch
Adjust
- EffectPresets
- Choose how selected areas are censored: Pixelate covers them with a blocky mosaic for a solid redaction, while Blur softens them for a gentler look.Options: PixelateBlur
- Censor strengthSliderRange: 0–1 · Default: 0.7
- Sets how heavy the pixelation or blur is, from Subtle to Strong; raise it for faces, plates and IDs so no detail remains readable.
Areas
- AreasDraw on image
- Drag a box over each face, plate, name or other detail you want hidden; add up to 24 boxes and remove any box individually.
- Auto-detect facesOne-click
- Finds every face in the photo and adds a censor box over each one automatically, so you can hide all faces in one tap.
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How Pixelate & Blur Image helps you get it done
Real problems it solves every day — for businesses, creators, and everyday tasks. Find the use case that fits you and start.
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