Censored Image

Hide sensitive parts of a picture.

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Censor Parts of an Image

Hide faces, license plates, names, addresses, e-mail addresses or any other sensitive detail before you share a picture. Drag over the original image to mark one or more areas, choose a censor style and download the cleaned image. The tool runs entirely in your browser, so the uncensored photo never leaves your device.

Three censor styles

  • Pixelate (mosaic) — the classic TV look. The area is divided into blocks and each block is filled with its average color. Shapes remain vaguely visible, details do not.
  • Blur — a soft, less distracting look that works well for faces and background people in street photos. A three-pass box blur approximates a Gaussian blur.
  • Solid bar — a filled rectangle in any color. This is the only option that guarantees the information is gone, and it is the right choice for text such as passwords, IBANs, card numbers or tokens.

The Strength slider scales with the image size, so the same setting gives a similar result on a small screenshot and a 4K photo.

When to censor an image

Before posting a screenshot of a bug report, a chat or an invoice, hide personal data of other people. When selling a car online, cover the plate. When sharing photos of kids or crowds, blur faces of people who did not agree to be published. Journalists and researchers anonymize sources, and support teams remove customer data from screenshots before forwarding them.

Tips

Make the selection a little larger than the item you hide, so edges and partial letters are covered too. Check the result preview on the right at full size before downloading. For pixelating an entire picture, use Pixelate Image; to check what metadata a photo still contains, use the Image Metadata Viewer.

Frequently Asked Questions

Drag a rectangle over the original image on the left. You can add as many areas as you need; each one is censored with the chosen style. Use “Clear areas” to start over.

Weak pixelation or blur of short text such as numbers can sometimes be reversed by guessing and comparing. For passwords, account numbers or ID data, use the Solid bar style, which removes the information completely.

No. The censored image is a new file built from the edited pixels, so the hidden area cannot be recovered from it. It also contains no EXIF metadata such as GPS.