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Blur faces

Before the photo goes public: faces found by a detector and blurred, no boxes to draw.

More free conversions, where you upload. The Fylane extension does the same work inside any upload form, on its own free share every day.Add to Chrome

How to blur faces

  1. Drop the photo.
  2. Pick the strength.
  3. Press Blur and download.

What happens to your file

YuNet, OpenCV’s face detector, finds every face at 640 px on Fylane’s servers; each box, widened a fifth for hair and chin, is blurred in place and the rest of the picture is untouched. The result keeps your format and its size.

A face it misses — turned away, tiny, in deep shadow — stays visible: the metadata says how many were found, and the box tool on Blur part of an image covers the rest by hand.

Questions

Does it keep the photo’s metadata?

Location and camera EXIF are dropped with the re-encode; the pixels outside the faces are as they were.

Can I choose which faces?

Not here — every face is treated. Blur part of an image takes one box you draw.

Do it once, not on every form

A form that wants a square JPEG under 240 KB says so on the page. The Fylane extension reads that, fits your photo to it, and puts it in the field — without you working out what 240 KB looks like.

And it keeps the result. The next application that asks for a résumé, a cover letter and a photo fills all three from one tap, each one refitted to what that site accepts.

Your files stay in the browser, encrypted, on your machine. Nothing is uploaded to keep them and nothing is sent anywhere to fill a form.

Filmed from the extension: a phone portrait against a form that takes only a square JPEG under 240 KB.

Add to Chrome — freeWhat it does

Do this in code

curl -X POST https://api.fylane.dev/v1/jobs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FYLANE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "file_id": "<file id>",
    "operation": "image.faces",
    "options": {
      "effect": "blur",
      "strength": 30
    }
  }'

The same operation, image.faces — Every face YuNet finds, blurred or pixelated (`effect`, `strength`, `margin`); the count and boxes in the metadata, and the picture unchanged when it finds none. Upload first with the quickstart; every option is on the operations page. 500 free credits a month, then $5 per thousand.