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Pixelate a face

The mosaic censor: drag a box over a face and only that becomes blocks.

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 pixelate a face

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

What happens to your file

The box you drew is cut out in the picture’s own pixels, shrunk so each block becomes one averaged colour, enlarged back with no smoothing, and put back where it was. Nothing outside the box changes. The block size is a per cent of the shorter side; at Coarse or Blocks a face is a handful of squares and nothing of it survives.

Questions

Blur or pixelate?

Pixelate removes more and cannot be sharpened back; blur looks softer in a photo. For hiding a person, pixelate.

Several faces?

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

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.effect",
    "options": {
      "effect": "pixelate",
      "block": 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.