Selective & Manual Blur

Blur Only the Faces
You Want to Hide

Standard lets you choose detected faces in one image at a time. Pro adds local identity matching across image, video, batch, and live workflows. Fixed rectangle and ellipse regions cover custom areas.

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Pro Identity Matching

Pro can analyze local face or body embeddings and apply person rules across image, video, batch, and live workflows. Matching is probabilistic and depends on pose, visibility, lighting, and source quality, so review the result.

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Standard Single-Image Selection

With Standard, load one image, review its detected faces, and choose whether each selected face should stay visible or be blurred. Standard does not perform identity matching across video, batches, or live sources.

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Manual Blur Regions

Draw, move, resize, or delete rectangle and ellipse regions over saved media. On video, a region stays at fixed normalized coordinates throughout the clip; it does not automatically follow a moving object.

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Pro Person Rules

After identity analysis, set a person or tracked-appearance rule to keep that subject visible or blurred. Video rules are reviewed against the processed result before an updated export.

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Plan-Specific Scope

Selective Blur requires Standard for one image at a time. Pro extends identity-based rules to images, videos, batches, and live webcam or RTSP sources.

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Local Identity Analysis

Desktop identity analysis and staff-gallery matching run in the local processor. Activation, periodic license validation, feedback, and update checks remain separate network-connected operations.

Controls & Parameters

Use plan-appropriate selection controls, tune Pro identity matching, and add fixed manual regions where needed.

Standard Selection

Click a detected face in one image and choose whether it stays visible or blurred. Embedding-based identity controls stay disabled.

Pro Identity Source

Use detected people and, when appropriate, a local staff-gallery folder as identity references for file or live workflows.

Manual Region Shape

Draw a rectangle or ellipse, then move, resize, change its shape, or delete it.

Video Region Behavior

Manual regions use fixed normalized clip coordinates. They do not provide motion tracking or sticky brush behavior.

Match Threshold

Adjust how strict Pro identity matching is. Lower values can increase matches and false matches; higher values can miss difficult appearances.

Blur Style & Intensity

Choose Gaussian, Pixelated, Solid, or Overlay and verify the effect in preview and final output.

How Selective Blur Works

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Choose the workflow

Use Standard with one image, or Pro when identity rules need to span image, video, batch, or live sources.

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Process and review detections

Run the configured face or body detection. For Pro video, process the file first so the people review is based on the processed result.

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Set selection or person rules

Choose whether a detected face, person identity, or tracked appearance stays visible or blurred. Identity matching is probabilistic, so inspect uncertain cases.

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Add fixed regions and export

Optionally draw rectangle or ellipse regions over custom areas. Video regions stay at fixed coordinates, so review movement and add an appropriate workflow for changing locations.

Who Uses Selective & Manual Blur?

Interviews & Documentaries

Use Pro identity rules to keep a consenting subject visible while blurring detected bystanders. Review difficult shots, scene changes, and partial occlusions before release.

News & Journalism

Apply Pro person rules to footage containing confidential sources, then add fixed manual regions for non-moving screens, documents, or other custom areas and review the export.

Event Photography & Conferences

Use Pro batch identity matching to apply the same person policy across event photos. Confirm consent rules and review uncertain or unmatched faces before publishing.

Law Enforcement & Legal Evidence

Use Pro person or tracked-appearance rules in bodycam or surveillance exports, with fixed manual regions for stationary badges, screens, or documents. Human review remains necessary.

Medical & Clinical Research

Use Pro identity rules to distinguish detected people in clinical recordings and fixed manual regions for stationary charts or monitors. This supports review workflows but does not guarantee compliance.

Education & Classroom Recordings

Use Pro identity rules to keep an instructor visible while blurring detected students, then review the processed recording for misses or incorrect matches.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is included with Standard and Pro?

Standard supports selective decisions for detected faces in one image at a time, without identity embeddings. Pro adds identity matching and person rules across image, video, batch, and live webcam or RTSP workflows.

What are manual blur regions?

They are editable rectangles or ellipses placed over custom areas such as a document or screen. A video region remains at fixed coordinates for the clip and does not automatically track motion.

Can I keep my own face unblurred while blurring everyone else?

Pro can apply an identity rule that keeps a matched person visible while other detected faces are blurred. Matching can fail or select the wrong appearance, so test representative conditions and monitor or review the result.

Does face recognition work with masks, glasses, or different angles?

Masks, glasses, pose, lighting, distance, and occlusion can all reduce matching reliability. Adjust the threshold using representative media and review the result instead of assuming every appearance will match.

Is identity data sent to a server?

Desktop identity analysis and staff-gallery matching run locally. The app still uses network services for download, activation, periodic license validation, feedback, and update checks.

Can I combine selective blur and manual regions?

Yes for supported saved-media workflows. Identity or detection rules determine automatic regions, and your fixed rectangle or ellipse regions are applied as an additional layer. Review the combined output before sharing it.

Start Using Selective Blur Today

Standard supports one-image selection from $29. Identity matching across image, video, batch, and live workflows requires Pro at $49 for one year.

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