Face Blur

Blur (gaussian) is the friendliest option — faces melt softly into the background. Pixelate screams “censored” and draws the eye, which is sometimes exactly the point. Black bar is the strongest anonymization but looks harsh. Rule of thumb: blur for privacy in otherwise normal photos; black bar when the face must be unmistakably gone (license plates or documents caught in frame get the same treatment). Click any box to restyle it.

24 crowd photos from a street fair, 67 faces in total. Auto-detect finds 61 faces in about 40 seconds. Six misses — sunglasses, sharp profile angles — get manual boxes in roughly 2 minutes. All boxes set to blur, exported as PNGs with EXIF location data stripped. Total: under 5 minutes for a share-safe album, with the originals untouched.

Auto-detect misses some faces — sunglasses, face masks, extreme angles, tiny distant faces — so review every photo before sharing. Detection needs one internet connection to download the model; everything after that is local. The blur is permanent in the export, so keep your original if you might want it later.