Photo Blur Tool

This tool applies the Gaussian blur to the entire frame. To blur part of image content only, crop the sensitive region out with the Image Cropper, blur that piece here, and paste it back in any editor. For faces and plates, the Pixelate Image tool is often the faster route.

Often not. Researchers have recovered blurred text and numbers by simulating the blur against candidate strings until one matches the smear, which works especially well when the font and layout are known, like a bank statement. For anything truly sensitive, push the radius high or cover the region with a solid block instead.

At typical photo sizes, 12 pixels makes a face unrecognizable at a glance, but enlargement can still reveal structure. For real anonymization go toward 30 to 50, and remember the radius is measured in source pixels, so a 4000 pixel wide photo needs a larger radius than a 1200 pixel one.

No. The blur is drawn on an HTML canvas inside your browser and the result is saved straight from there. That matters for exactly the kind of images people blur: IDs, statements, and screenshots with tokens or home addresses in them.

Pair this with the Background Remover: cut the subject out there, blur the original photo here, then layer the sharp cutout over the blurred copy in any editor. That gives you a portrait-style depth effect with full control over how strong the blur is.

Bulk mode kicks in as soon as you add more than one file. Every image gets the same radius applied and the results come back as blurred-images.zip. Processing is sequential and local, so big batches just take a little patience.

Speed, mostly. There's no install and no learning curve: people looking to blur photo free of cost get a slider, a preview, and a download button in one screen. A full editor wins when you need masked, region-specific blurs or layered compositing.