Blur an image online — soften a busy background for a dreamy out-of-focus look, or hide a face, a license plate or private details before you share. PIXLFLW works entirely in your browser: your photo is blurred locally and never uploaded to a server.
What you can do
- Adjustable radius — from a subtle softening to a heavy frosted-glass blur.
- Blur a background — give portraits and product shots a smooth, out-of-focus backdrop.
- Censor private data — obscure faces, plates, documents or screens in a screenshot.
- Combine with crop — crop to the area you want to hide, then blur, in one pipeline.
How to blur a photo
- Drop an image into the upload area (formats: GIF, JPG, BMP, PNG, WEBP, HEIC, TIFF).
- Set the blur strength with the radius slider.
- Download the blurred image as JPG or PNG.
How much image blur do you need?
A small radius (a few pixels) reads as a soft focus and keeps the subject recognizable. A large radius flattens shapes into color — that is what you want when the point is to hide something. If you are blurring to protect information, check the result at full size before downloading: a light blur on small text can still be legible.
Note: the blur applies to the whole frame, not to a selected region — to hide one detail, crop to it first, or use the pixelate tool for a mosaic look.
Privacy note: because processing is local, blurring sensitive screenshots with PIXLFLW is safer than with upload-based tools — the original never leaves your device.