Work and selling
Check marketplace listing photos for personal details
Review reflections, parcel labels, family pictures and filenames before publishing photos of items you want to sell.
A listing photo should show the item clearly. It can also show you in a reflection, a family photograph on a shelf or an address label on a parcel. Those details may add nothing useful for a buyer while revealing more about your home or household than you intended.
Review the source image before editing. Moving the item to a simpler background and taking another photo can be easier than trying to cover many details in a busy room.
Look at reflective surfaces
Mirrors, televisions, polished furniture and glossy appliances can show faces or parts of the room. Inspect the full frame at a useful viewing size. Automatic face detection may miss a distorted or partial reflection; use a manual region where appropriate.
If a reflection includes a lot of private context, another angle may produce a cleaner photograph. BlurFaces does not remove reflections or reconstruct the surface behind them. It covers selected rectangular areas.
Read labels and background objects
Check parcels, envelopes, paperwork, screens and labels for names, addresses and reference numbers. Inspect family photos that appear behind the item. A readable detail can matter even when nobody’s face is in the scene.
Open the local editor and use Add face to draw a region over a detail you want to cover. The label names the manual-region control; it can also cover a rectangle around a parcel label or a small framed photograph.
Keep the item represented honestly
If you use opaque coverage for a private label or background face, make sure it does not conceal a condition detail a buyer needs to evaluate. Retake the photograph if the private detail overlaps the important part of the item.
Block fills the selected rectangle, while blur and pixelation leave transformed detail. Inspect the result instead of assuming a softened label is unreadable. This workflow is for selected details, not automatic redaction of every address or document in a photograph.
Review the file you will attach
Download the edited copy and reopen it. BlurFaces does not copy original source metadata, but it preserves the visible scene except for your edits. The default filename keeps the original stem with _blurfacesapp added; rename it if the stem contains private information.
Check the caption for unintended location details too. A listing service’s own messages, profile and audience settings are outside the editor. Face and label coverage do not guarantee that a location or person cannot be inferred from the remaining scene.
For each additional listing photo, repeat the review. The editor handles one still image at a time; loading another replaces the current session. The photo privacy checklist gives you a short routine for the final pass.