Pixelate Image — Censor Parts of a Photo
Turn chosen areas of a photo into large pixel blocks to hide faces, text or private details. Free, no sign-up, and your files never leave your device.
Free, with no sign-up and no watermark. The file is processed in your browser and never uploaded.
Replace chosen areas with large coloured blocks (a mosaic) to censor faces, text or private details, or pixelate the whole picture for a retro look.
Step by step
- Upload a photo: Choose the image.
- Pick a mode: Selected areas or Whole image.
- Mark areas: Drag rectangles over what to hide.
- Set block size: Bigger blocks hide more.
- Save: Click Pixelate Image.
Handy for
Censoring
Hide faces or logos in shared photos.
Screenshots
Mask personal data.
Pixel art look
Turn a whole photo into chunky pixels.
Spoilers
Hide part of an image until it’s revealed.
Good to know
Use a block size large enough that individual letters disappear completely.
Questions
Are my photos uploaded anywhere?
No. Every image is opened and processed inside your browser on your own device. Nothing is sent to a server, and closing the tab discards everything.
Which image formats can I use?
JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF (first frame), BMP, TIFF, SVG and iPhone HEIC/HEIF photos. Photoshop PSD files work when they were saved with a flattened preview ("Maximize compatibility").
Further reading
- What Your Photos Reveal: Check and Remove EXIF and GPS — Photos can carry your GPS location, camera and date. Check them in EXIF Viewer, strip the data with Remove EXIF, and blur faces before you share.
More Image Editor tools
- Blur Faces in Photos — Find faces automatically on your device and blur, pixelate or black them out before sharing a photo.
- Remove Background from Image — Cut the subject out of a photo with on-device AI and download a transparent PNG or place it on a new colour or image.
- Upscale Image — Enlarge small or blurry photos 2× or 4× with an on-device AI model that adds detail instead of just stretching pixels.
- Black and White Image Converter — Turn colour photos into greyscale, or into pure black and white with an adjustable threshold for documents and signatures.
- Image Color Picker — Click anywhere on an image to read its exact colour as HEX, RGB and HSL, with a magnifier and a saved list.
- Image Color Palette Extractor — Extract the main colours from any image as a palette with HEX codes and percentages, ready to copy as CSS or download.