Blur faces in a photo before you share it
Group photos from school events, pictures of a street or a crowd, screenshots of a video call: before posting or sending them, you often need to hide the faces of people who did not agree to be shown. Doing it by hand in a photo editor means drawing a shape over each face, one at a time.
FrameWipe does the finding for you. Every face it detects is selected straight away, so for a photo of twenty people you only need to deselect the few you want to keep, instead of covering the other eighteen yourself.
Pixelate a face, blur it, or cover it completely
Each style has its place. The preview shows the result live, so you can compare them on your own photo.
- Blur: soft and unobtrusive, good for background faces in casual photos.
- Pixelate: the familiar mosaic look that clearly signals "hidden on purpose".
- Solid fill: covers the face completely. Use it for anything sensitive.
- Padding: widen the covered area so hair, ears and the edge of the face are hidden too.
Is pixelation enough to hide a face?
Not always. Pixelation and blur keep some information about the face, and they can sometimes be partly reversed. That is acceptable for a stranger in the background of a holiday photo. It is not acceptable for a child's face, a witness or someone who could be put at risk if recognized. In those cases use a solid fill, which leaves nothing to recover.
A face blur app that does not upload your photos
Online face blur tools ask you to upload the original, unblurred photo first. For the very photos you want to protect, that is the wrong order. FrameWipe is a desktop app for Mac and Windows: the photo is processed on your computer, there is no account, and nothing is sent anywhere.
The rest of the photo is left untouched, at its original resolution. Only the areas you cover change.
- Very small, turned-away or partly hidden faces can be missed. Look over the preview before saving.
- Faces on posters, screens or reflections may or may not be detected. Add a box where needed.
- Pixelation and blur can sometimes be partly reversed. For sensitive photos, use a solid fill.