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Blur / Pixelate Image — Automatic Face Finder

Q: Can it find faces for me?

Yes. Once your photo is loaded, press "🙂 Find faces automatically" and every face it finds is hidden in one go. Each face gets a number so you can toggle them individually (for example, keeping your own face visible), and a margin slider widens the covered area to include hair and jawline. That said, automatic detection is not perfect — faces in profile, small faces in the distance, and faces behind masks or hands can be missed, and non-faces are occasionally picked up. Always check the result before saving, and cover anything that was missed by dragging or brushing over it. This feature also runs entirely on your own device; nothing is uploaded (the first run downloads what it needs, then it starts instantly).

Hide faces automatically: one click finds every face in the photo and pixelates them all at once. License plates and IDs — just drag over them. Your photo never leaves your browser.

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AI finds the faces in your photo and hides them in one go

⚠️ Automatic detection is not perfect. Faces in profile, small faces far away, and faces hidden behind masks or hands can be missed — and things that aren't faces are sometimes picked up. Always check the result yourself before saving. Anything that was missed you can still cover by dragging a rectangle or painting with the brush on the photo below.

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Tap a number below — or the numbered circle on the photo — to turn that face on or off (handy when you want to keep your own face visible). The green outlines and numbers are on screen only; they are never part of the saved file.

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The more sensitive the photo, the more this tool makes sense — uploading a photo of an ID card, contract, license plate or your kid's face to a typical censoring site means it lands on someone else's server. Here, the entire blur/pixelate process runs inside your browser: not a single byte of your photo is sent anywhere. It even works offline.How this differs from upload-based sites — most converter sites upload your photo to a server, process it there, and promise to delete it after a while. Until that happens, your photo is sitting on someone else's server. imgmoa has no upload step at all. The more sensitive the photo — a scanned ID, a photographed contract, pictures of your kids — the more that difference matters.

Hide faces, plates and personal details properly before you share a photo

Other people’s faces, a license plate, the label on a parcel: things that should be hidden slip into photos more often than you think. This tool finds faces automatically and covers them in one go, and lets you drag or paint over everything else. Edits are applied at the original resolution and the saved file keeps its full size.

A closer look

There are three ways to cover something. “Pixelate” turns the area into large blocks, “Blur” softens it, and “Emoji” pastes an opaque picture over it. Strength (8 to 40) is measured at the size you see on screen, so the saved file is exactly as coarse as the preview. You apply effects with “Rectangle”, which takes effect the moment you release the drag, or with “Brush” (size 10 to 120) for painting over irregular shapes. A light blur can sometimes be partly reversed, so for numbers and text use a strong pixelate or an emoji. The saved image is built fresh from the edited canvas, so EXIF data such as the original shooting location does not come along either.

Pressing “Find faces automatically” downloads a face-detection model the first time only and runs it in your browser. Detection works on a copy scaled to 800 pixels on the long side, with the coordinates mapped back to the original, and each face found is covered with an oval using whichever effect is currently selected. Faces are numbered from left to right; tap a number chip or the numbered circle on the photo to switch one on or off, and raise Margin (0 to 50%, default 15%) to cover hair and jawline. The green outlines and numbers appear on screen only. Faces in profile, small faces far away and faces behind masks or hands can be missed, and because detection leans toward finding too many rather than too few, it sometimes marks something that is not a face.

How to use it

Add one photo (JPG, PNG, WebP, BMP or GIF). It is shown scaled down, but every edit applies to the original.
Choose the effect, Pixelate, Emoji or Blur, and the strength first, then press Find faces automatically.
Tap numbers to switch off faces you want to leave visible, and widen the coverage with the Margin slider. Turn all off uncovers them all at once.
Cover missed faces, plates or text by dragging with Rectangle or painting with Brush. Use Undo for a mistake, or Reset all to start over.
Choose JPG or PNG and press Save. The file downloads with “_censored” added to its name.

When it helps

Sharing a group photoSwitch off your own face among those detected and post the event photo with everyone else’s covered.

Selling a car or car partsDrag a rectangle over the license plate that ended up in the background.

Parcel labels and receiptsPaint over the name, address and phone number before posting a photo of a delivery or a purchase.

Submitting an ID copyCover the parts of an ID number that the recipient does not need, so the copy shows only what was asked for.

Common snags

It found no faces, or missed some.Profile, small and partly hidden faces are hard to detect, and in a large group shot the scaling for detection makes small faces smaller still. Cover the rest by hand with Rectangle or Brush.

Something that is not a face got covered.Tap its number chip or the numbered circle on the photo to switch it off, and that spot returns to normal.

The Blur button is grayed out.If your browser does not support canvas blur filters, Blur is disabled and only Pixelate and Emoji are available. For hiding personal details, Pixelate is enough.

I can still make out letter shapes through the pixelation.If the blocks are small compared with the text, bold letters can keep their outline. Raise Strength to 30 or more, or cover the area with an opaque emoji. Strength follows what you see on screen, so if it looks coarse there, the saved file is just as coarse.

Tip When hiding numbers or addresses, make the area generously bigger than the text; even a few pixels of letter edges left showing can let someone guess the rest from context.

Blur & Pixelate — FAQ

Can it find faces for me?

Yes. Once your photo is loaded, press "🙂 Find faces automatically" and every face it finds is hidden in one go. Each face gets a number so you can toggle them individually (for example, keeping your own face visible), and a margin slider widens the covered area to include hair and jawline. That said, automatic detection is not perfect — faces in profile, small faces in the distance, and faces behind masks or hands can be missed, and non-faces are occasionally picked up. Always check the result before saving, and cover anything that was missed by dragging or brushing over it. This feature also runs entirely on your own device; nothing is uploaded (the first run downloads what it needs, then it starts instantly).

Should I use blur or pixelation?

To reliably hide personal information (IDs, license plates, faces), use pixelation at a high strength. Weak blur can sometimes be partially reversed. Blur looks softer and is better for cosmetic censoring.

Does it reduce image quality?

The preview is scaled down, but the saved file keeps the full original resolution. Untouched pixels stay exactly as they were, and saving as PNG avoids any recompression loss.

I painted the wrong spot.

Use Undo to step back through your edits (10+ steps), or Reset all to start over from the original.

Is my photo really never uploaded?

Correct. Everything from file selection to saving runs inside your browser. You can verify it in your browser's network tab — it even works with the internet disconnected.

Does it work on my phone?

Yes — drag with your finger to select areas, or paint with the brush.