How to Blur Faces in Multiple Photos at Once
If a folder contains guests, bystanders, tenants or other identifiable people, privacy cleanup becomes repetitive very quickly. The useful unit of work is the whole batch, not one face at a time.
Open the toolBulk Face Blur →Detect first, then apply one privacy rule
A batch workflow should detect faces consistently across the folder, then apply the same mask style, padding and intensity before export. This is easier to review than manually drawing a different mask in every image.
Blur and mosaic solve slightly different jobs
Gaussian blur keeps the photo looking softer and more natural. Mosaic removes fine detail more visibly and is often easier to verify when anonymization matters.
- Use blur for lifestyle and event galleries
- Use mosaic when visible redaction is preferable
- Increase padding when faces are small or partially occluded
Keep privacy redaction inside the delivery workflow
After faces are hidden, the same photos often still need resizing, compression, metadata cleanup, renaming and platform-specific outputs. Keeping face masking inside the image pipeline avoids another upload-export round trip.
Always review privacy-sensitive output
Automatic face detectors can miss tiny, rotated, heavily occluded or unusual faces. Preview representative images before publishing and manually inspect sensitive batches.