How to blur or hide part of an image

Steps

1. Open the Blur or hide tool and drop in your picture.
2. Drag a box over each area to hide. You can add as many as you need.
3. Choose Blur, Pixelate or Cover with a solid color.
4. Press the button and download the new picture.

Blur, pixelate or cover?

A light blur can leave text partly readable, and a determined person can sometimes recover digits from a weak blur or pixelation. Cover paints a solid block, which leaves nothing to recover.

Use Cover for card numbers, account numbers and anything private. Use blur for faces and backgrounds where looks matter more than security.

Precise boxes and many pictures

Every box also has number inputs for its position in percent, which works without a mouse and lets you nudge it exactly. The live preview uses the same code as the saved file.

If you drop several pictures, the same boxes apply to all of them, which suits screenshots with the same layout. Your original files are never changed.

Tips

Make the box a little bigger than the thing you are hiding. Edges of letters and faces stick out, and a tight box can leave a sliver visible.

After you save, open the new picture and zoom in. If you can still read or recognize anything, run it again with Cover. And remember that hidden location data is separate from what is visible, so clean that too.