Censor Photo
Drag boxes over faces, license plates, or private details and blur or pixelate them — entirely on your device.
Processed on your device — nothing is sent anywhere.
How it works
- Choose a photo or drop it onto the page. It opens in the editor on your device and is never uploaded.
- Drag rectangles over the areas you want to hide — faces, license plates, addresses. Pick pixelate or blur and adjust the strength slider.
- Press Download PNG or Download JPG to save the censored copy at the photo’s full resolution.
Frequently asked questions
- Is my photo uploaded when I censor it?
- No. The image is opened, edited, and exported entirely inside your browser using the canvas API. It never leaves your device, so it is safe to use with IDs, documents, and other sensitive photos.
- Can blurred or pixelated areas be reversed?
- The exported file contains only the censored pixels — the original detail is not hidden underneath, it is gone. That said, very light blur over short text can sometimes be guessed by reconstruction tools, so for sensitive text use pixelation or a high strength setting.
- Does the download keep the original quality?
- Yes. Boxes you draw on the preview are mapped to the photo’s native pixels and applied at full resolution on export. PNG is lossless; JPG is slightly compressed but smaller. Exporting through the canvas also strips EXIF metadata such as GPS location.
- Should I use blur or pixelate to hide information?
- Pixelate is the safer choice for text such as names, addresses, or card numbers, because it destroys stroke shapes that reconstruction techniques rely on. Blur looks softer and is fine for faces and backgrounds when set to a high strength. Whichever you pick, cover the whole area generously rather than tracing it tightly.
- Can I censor multiple areas in one photo?
- Yes. Draw as many rectangles as you need — each one is applied independently, so you can hide several faces, a license plate, and a street sign in the same pass. If you misplace a box, remove it and draw again; the effect is only baked in when you download.
About this tool
This tool redacts parts of a photo by blurring or pixelating rectangular regions you draw yourself. Load an image, drag boxes over whatever must not be readable — faces, license plates, home addresses, account numbers, signatures — choose blur or pixelate, set the strength, and download the censored copy. It is the fast way to make a screenshot or photo safe to share publicly.
The entire process is client-side. Your photo is decoded straight into a canvas element in the browser; the censoring effects are computed on your device, and the exported file is assembled there too. Nothing is uploaded, which is precisely what you want from a tool whose whole purpose is handling sensitive images — an online redaction service that uploads your ID to its server would defeat the point. As a side effect of canvas export, EXIF metadata such as GPS coordinates and capture time is stripped from the download automatically.
Typical jobs include blurring bystanders’ faces before posting street photos, hiding license plates in marketplace listings, redacting names and order numbers from screenshots used in bug reports or reviews, and masking parts of documents when only one section is relevant. Because boxes are mapped from the preview to the photo’s native pixels, the output keeps full resolution — a censored 12-megapixel photo downloads as a 12-megapixel photo.
For genuinely sensitive content, technique matters. Pixelation at a coarse setting is more resistant to reconstruction than light blur, especially over text, because it collapses each block to a single color. Draw boxes larger than the target so partial characters don’t leak at the edges, and check the result at 100% zoom before sharing. Remember that the censoring is permanent in the exported file — the original stays untouched on your device, so keep it if you may need the uncensored version later.