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Hide faces

Blur, pixelate or cover every face in a photo before you publish it.

Create account 1 credit a photo

How it works

A face detector finds every face, and each one is hidden inside the oval around it: blurred, pixelated, or covered with a colour. Blurring and pixelating stop a person from recognising the face; covering leaves nothing of it. A face must be about 1/60 of the photo’s longest side to be found, and a head seen from behind is not a face: check the count of faces hidden.

You choose
  • Hide them: Blur, Pixelate, Cover
  • Strength
  • Room around each face: 0%, 15%, 30%, 50%
  • Faces to find: Only clear ones, As usual, More, some not faces
It takes
One photo at a time, or a whole folder at once in the browser.
You get
The photo with the faces hidden, and how many were.
Cost
1 credit a photo

In the API

One request a photo, with an API key from the console. POST /v1/blur-faces

curl -X POST "https://api.photos.sh/v1/blur-faces?mode=blur&strength=50&padding=0.15&min_score=0.6" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PHOTOS_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: image/jpeg" \
  --data-binary @photo.jpg \
  -o result.jpg

More tools to clean up

  • Remove backgroundCut the product out onto transparency, white, a colour, an image or its own photo blurred, and stage it on a canvas with a shadow.
  • Remove text and watermarksPaint out watermarks, captions, prices and shop names. The product’s own label stays.
  • Erase objectsPaint over a blemish, a price sticker or a stray object, and it is filled in from what is around it.
  • Select an objectClick the thing you want in a photo and get it cut out: one product among several, a part of one, or what the background remover did not pick.
  • Fix light and colourEven out dull, dark or tinted photos in one step, or set brightness, contrast, colour and sharpness yourself.
  • Remove noiseClean the grain of a dark shot and the blocks of heavy JPEG compression out of a photo, with AI.
  • ColouriseGive a black-and-white photo colour, with AI. The colours are a believable guess, not a record of what was there.
  • Restore facesRedraw the faces of an old, blurred or small photo sharp, with AI. The rest of the photo is left as it is.
  • UpscaleEnlarge a small photo with AI, keeping edges and text sharp.

Try it on your own photos.

Create an account, buy a pack when you need one, and drop your first photos into Hide faces.

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