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Blur Part of a Photo, Every Setting: Subject, Shapes, Redact

Every setting of the free Blur tool on a street photo with three strangers walking past behind the subject. Light, Medium and Heavy (4, 10, 24); seven kinds from Gaussian and Bokeh to Mosaic; then where it applies: the subject found for you, a round shape or straight band (Portrait background, Tilt-shift), and areas you mark by dragging on the preview. Redact marks two areas with 80 px blocks — sized to the photo — and the strangers are gone while she is untouched. Swap blurs everything except the marks. Saving: PNG 24.2 MB, JPG 2.5 MB. Nothing is uploaded.

Length: 2:38Published:

What you'll learn

Light, Medium, Heavy — and seven kinds

Subject found for you: blur around her

Round shape and straight band

Redact: drag to mark, blocks sized to the photo

Swap: everything except the marks

PNG or JPG: 24.2 MB vs 2.5 MB

In this video

  1. 0:00Hide them, not her
  2. 0:24How strong, what kind
  3. 0:44Where it applies
  4. 1:06Redact: mark the areas
  5. 1:32PNG or JPG
  6. 1:46Three jobs
  7. 2:00Free and Pro
  8. 2:10Nothing is uploaded

Every setting of the free Blur tool on a street photo with three strangers walking past behind the subject. Light, Medium and Heavy (4, 10, 24); seven kinds from Gaussian and Bokeh to Mosaic; then where it applies: the subject found for you, a round shape or straight band (Portrait background, Tilt-shift), and areas you mark by dragging on the preview. Redact marks two areas with 80 px blocks — sized to the photo — and the strangers are gone while she is untouched. Swap blurs everything except the marks. Saving: PNG 24.2 MB, JPG 2.5 MB. Nothing is uploaded.

Blur, every setting, on a phone photo (4032×5376) of a woman on a street bench with three strangers walking away behind her. Presets set the amount — Light, Medium and Heavy are the same Gaussian blur at 4, 10 and 24 — and the kind can be Gaussian, Box, Bokeh (the soft discs of a lens), Motion, Spin, Zoom or Mosaic. Where it applies is the real choice: Subject (found for you) finds the person and blurs everything around; a round shape or a straight band keeps a circle or a strip sharp (the Portrait background and Tilt-shift presets). For hiding people, Redact: Mosaic on areas you mark by dragging across the preview — with nothing marked, Blur waits. Its blocks are sized to the photo, 80 px on this one; two areas and the strangers are gone while she is untouched. Swap blurs everything except the marked areas. Saving: a PNG of a phone photo is large (24.2 MB here); Save as JPG brings it back to 2.5 MB. Free: one image up to 25 MB. Pro: 100 at once, one download. Nothing is uploaded.

Full transcript

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Hide them · not her

Blur, every setting: how strong, what kind, and where it applies — everywhere, around a subject it finds for you, a shape, or areas you mark. Free, and nothing is uploaded.

Light 4 · Medium 10 · Heavy 24

Gaussian · Box · Bokeh · Motion · Spin · Zoom · Mosaic

Subject (found for you)

Round shape · Straight band

Redact · nothing marked yet

2 areas · 80 px blocks

Hidden · she is untouched

Swap · everything except the marks

PNG 24.2 MB · JPG 2.5 MB

Strangers in a photo you post · Redact

A portrait · Subject

A product photo · Tilt-shift

Free: one image · 25 MB

None of it left the browser. This is its own record of everything it fetched while all of that ran — not one request carried the photo.

Free, no account, nothing uploaded. Bring your own photo — and I will see you in the next one.

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