Face recognition-powered selective blur keeps specific people visible while anonymizing everyone else. Plus a manual blur brush for custom redaction — license plates, documents, anything. Works on photos, videos, and livestreams.
SmartBlur recognizes people you select and finds them again across your photos and videos. This means it can reliably tell people apart — even in crowded scenes, varying lighting, and different angles — so you can blur specific individuals while leaving others untouched.
Tag the people you want to protect — SmartBlur blurs every instance of their face across all frames and images. Everyone else remains unblurred. This is ideal for interviews, documentaries, and group photos where some participants consent to being shown while others need anonymization. No manual per-frame editing required.
Draw directly on any frame or image to add custom blur regions the AI might miss. The manual blur brush works like a paint tool — click and drag to cover license plates, documents, tattoos, screen content, or any area that needs redaction. Brush size is adjustable, and the strokes persist across frames when applied to video.
Build a list of faces to exclude from blurring. Register a face once, and SmartBlur will skip it in every frame going forward. The exclusion list persists across sessions, so you don't need to re-register people each time you open the application. Add or remove entries at any time.
Selective blur and the manual brush work in all three SmartBlur modes. Use face recognition to protect specific people in a batch of event photos, exclude yourself from blur in a video recording, or keep your face visible while blurring everyone else on a Zoom call. One tool, every format.
Face matching data and your saved face list stay on your computer. They are used only to find the people you selected, and are never uploaded.
Fine-tune recognition sensitivity, brush behavior, and blur style for precise control over what gets blurred and what stays visible.
Toggle between "Blur All" (default), "Selective Blur" (blur only registered faces), and "Exclude Faces" (blur everyone except registered faces).
Select a face in the preview and add it to your saved face list so SmartBlur can recognize it later.
Adjust the manual blur brush diameter from small (precise redaction of text or small objects) to large (covering entire regions in a single stroke).
For video: choose whether manual brush strokes follow detected motion (sticky) or stay fixed at the drawn coordinates (static).
Control how strict the face recognition match must be. Higher threshold = fewer false matches but may miss the person in difficult angles. Lower = more forgiving matching.
Gaussian, Pixelated, Solid fill, or Overlay — with adjustable intensity. The selected style applies to both AI-detected and manually brushed regions.
Open your media or start the camera in SmartBlur. Select a detected face and register it to your reference library. SmartBlur saves the selected face on your computer so it can recognize the person later.
Pick "Selective Blur" to blur only registered faces (protect specific people), or "Exclude Faces" to blur everyone except registered faces (keep yourself or your subject visible while anonymizing everyone else).
SmartBlur scans every frame of your video, every photo in a batch, or every frame of your live camera feed. Each face is compared with your saved face list, then blurred or kept visible based on your choice.
Use the manual blur brush to cover anything the AI doesn't catch — license plates, documents on a desk, screen content, tattoos, or any region you want redacted. Strokes composite on top of the AI blur layer.
Film interviews with multiple participants where the subject consents to being shown but bystanders and crew must be anonymized. Register the subject's face once — SmartBlur keeps them visible while blurring everyone else automatically across the entire production.
Protect confidential sources and whistleblowers by registering their faces for selective blur. All other faces in the footage remain unblurred, preserving the natural look of the scene. The manual brush handles non-face redaction like license plates and documents.
Process hundreds of event photos where VIPs and speakers consent to being shown but attendees do not. Register the speakers, set mode to "Exclude Faces," and batch-process the entire folder — speakers stay visible, everyone else gets blurred.
Redact specific individuals in bodycam or surveillance footage while keeping officers and persons of interest visible. Use the manual blur brush to cover badge numbers, screen content, and sensitive documents within the same workflow.
Blur patient faces in clinical recordings while keeping researchers and medical staff unblurred. The manual brush covers patient charts, monitors, and other identifying information that falls outside face detection zones.
Record lectures and classroom sessions where the instructor is visible but students are anonymized. Register the instructor's face for exclusion, and SmartBlur handles the rest — no post-production manual masking needed.
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