Communities and public spaces
Sharing street and travel photos with fewer visible bystanders
Keep your travel memory while reviewing background faces, reflections and details that identify people you did not intend to feature.
The main subject of a travel photo might be a café, a building or your friend. The frame can also include people waiting for a bus, sitting at another table or walking behind you. Those people may contribute little to the story you want to share.
Before posting, decide which people need to remain visible. Editing background faces can keep attention on your subject while revealing less of the surrounding people’s appearance.
Start with a deliberate composition
Choose among your photos before editing. A frame with fewer bystanders or a cleaner background may need less work. BlurFaces keeps the source composition and dimensions; it does not remove bodies, crop the scene or create a depth-of-field background blur.
If you want to obscure selected faces while keeping your subject visible, the background-people tool fits that job. It provides individual face boxes, not automatic separation of foreground and background.
Keep the intended subject visible
Open the photo and review detections. Toggle coverage off for people you have agreed to show. Leave other faces covered, then choose Pixelate, Blur, Block or Emoji according to the visual coverage you need.
Move or resize boxes when they miss part of a face. Inspect the image rather than relying on the number of detections. Automatic boxes under 100 source pixels in either dimension are skipped, so distant people need manual review and possibly Add face.
Check reflected and partial faces
Shop windows, mirrors, sunglasses and glossy surfaces can show a person from another angle. A person at the edge of the frame might have only part of their face visible. Sweep across the full image and add boxes where needed.
Also check other details you did not mean to feature: a readable badge, screen, private conversation on a sign or a distinctive outfit. A face cover does not hide the rest of a person or the place they were photographed.
Review the caption and exported copy
A caption or location tag can add context. Consider whether that detail is necessary for your post. Hiding a face does not establish agreement to publish or answer every question about a photograph’s use.
Download the edited version and inspect it. BlurFaces does not copy original metadata to the export, but the scene and filename still need review. Make sure you attach the edited file rather than another similar-looking original in your gallery.
For a repeated posting workflow, use the photo privacy checklist. It can make the review quick without reducing it to “the detector found some faces, so the picture is ready.”