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Blur part of an image

Drag a box over what should not be seen; only that is blurred.

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

How to blur part of an image

  1. Drop the image.
  2. Pick the box by eye and drag it over the part.
  3. Press Blur and download.

What happens to your file

The box you drew is cut out in the picture’s own pixels, a Gaussian blur whose radius is a per cent of the shorter side is applied to that piece alone, and it is put back exactly where it was. Nothing outside the box changes — the report says the pixels used.

A face at the heaviest setting is not recognisable, but a blur can be partly undone by a determined analyst; for a plate or a name, Pixelate part of an image at a coarse block removes more.

Questions

Several faces?

One box per run today; run it again on the result for the next. Several boxes at once is on the list.

Is it enough to hide someone?

For a social post, yes at Heavy or Unrecognisable. For anything that matters, pixelate coarsely — or crop them out.

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.effect",
    "options": {
      "effect": "blur",
      "strength": 2,
      "format": "same"
    }
  }'

The same operation, image.effect — Four small edits: rounded corners (with transparency), a border, a pixelation, a blur — sizes as a per cent of the shorter side. Upload first with the quickstart; every option is on the operations page. 500 free credits a month, then $5 per thousand.