While showing up at a protest can demonstrate your opinion to the world, you may not want your face â or the faces of other protesters â to be included, especially when there is the possibility that authorities will collect and use that information (as they did for tracking movements during COVID-19 social distancing). As a result, many consider it vital to obscure the faces of people in any photos you may post on social media and other online sources.
What follows are some strategies for removing facial features from your photos. Of course, you can open up your images on a desktop or laptop using Photoshop or Preview to blur or scrub, but weâre going to assume you arenât carrying around a laptop with you. So with mobile in mind, you still have some solid options.
What needs to be done
When removing faces, you want to use a method that canât be reversed. It is possible to de-blur a photo, especially using neural networks. Itâs not possible to completely reverse the blurring, since it is lossy (in other words, some data will be permanently lost), but a lot can be ârestored.â So why take the risk? Painting over faces, or using mosaic blur techniques, will prevent …
