Protect privacy by blurring faces, pixelating sensitive information, or adding black bars to your photos. Features auto face detection, batch processing, zoom and pan, presets, and more - all processing happens in your browser.
or click to browse - multiple files supported
Applies a Gaussian blur that smoothly obscures details while maintaining color tones. Ideal for faces and backgrounds. After censoring, compress your image to reduce file size.
Creates a mosaic effect by enlarging pixels. Classic censoring style often used for sensitive content in media and social platforms.
Covers areas with solid black rectangles. Maximum privacy protection, commonly used for text redaction in documents and screenshots.
Custom colored overlay for artistic censoring or brand-matching. Choose any color to cover sensitive areas with a uniform fill.
Photo censoring is essential for protecting personal information before sharing images online. Whether you need to hide faces in group photos, redact personal data from screenshots, or obscure license plates before posting to social media - this tool handles it all right in your browser. Need to crop your image before censoring? Or perhaps resize it after processing? ConvertICO offers a full suite of editing tools.
For the best censoring results, zoom in using the scroll wheel to precisely target the areas you want to hide. Use the ellipse shape for faces and the rectangle for text blocks or license plates. The auto face detection feature works best on clear, front-facing photos - for group shots, it can detect and censor all faces at once. Try our Image Cropper to trim unwanted areas first, or use the Image Annotation tool to add labels before censoring. Once finished, you can convert PNG to JPG for smaller file sizes or add a watermark to protect your edited image.
No, our censoring is permanent and irreversible. When you blur or pixelate an area, the original pixel data is destroyed and replaced. Unlike some overlay methods, our tool actually modifies the image data, making it impossible to recover the censored content.
No. All processing happens directly in your browser using JavaScript. Your images never leave your device, ensuring complete privacy. We don't upload, store, or have access to any of your photos.
Our face detection uses face-api.js, a powerful AI-based library that runs entirely in your browser. It loads lightweight neural network models on first use and scans your image locally for faces, automatically creating censor regions over each detected face. Since it runs entirely in your browser, your photos remain private. For best results, use well-lit photos with faces clearly visible.
Yes! Upload multiple images at once and use the thumbnail strip to switch between them. Each image maintains its own editing history. When you're done, use "Download All" to save all censored images as a ZIP file.
Presets are pre-configured combinations of censor method, shape, and intensity optimized for common tasks. For example, "Face Blur" sets ellipse shape with medium blur, while "Plate Redact" uses a black bar rectangle. Click any preset to instantly configure your tools.
We support JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, and BMP. For output, choose PNG (best quality), JPEG (smaller files), or WebP (modern compression). Need to convert? Try our PNG to JPG or JPG to WebP converter.
Yes! Press Ctrl+V (or Cmd+V on Mac) anywhere on the page to paste an image from your clipboard. You can also click the "Paste from Clipboard" button. This is perfect for quickly censoring screenshots without saving them as files first.