Sometimes, for various reasons, it may be necessary to protect a person’s identity or to make them anonymous in a photograph.
We’ll show you how to easily pixelate a person’s face in Photoshop. Let’s start.
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Why pixelate someone’s face?
Aside from making someone anonymous in a photo, it’s a lot easier to pixelate someone’s face rather than trying to Photoshop them out entirely. You may have a group photo where you want to pixelate two people who aren’t next to each other, like in the example we’re going to use.
You could spend a lot of time in Photoshop removing them at the risk of making the photo look like it’s been obviously manipulated, or you can just pixelate faces to preserve most of the image’s integrity. Why not keep it simple and just pixelate some faces?
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Step 1: Make a selection with the Lasso tool
There are several ways to make a selection in Photoshop, but we’re going to use the Lasso tool since it allows us to easily draw around the faces to make a selection.
- When the image is loaded in Photoshop, press ctrl + J to duplicate the layer. We want to work non-destructively.
- Press L for the lasso or select it from the toolbar.
- Trace the girl’s face as shown.
- Hold down the change Press to extend the selection and draw around the boy’s face.
Now we have a wide range of both children’s faces.
You can also use the Subject Selection tool in Photoshop to automatically select people.
Step 2: Pixelate the faces
It’s time for the fun part. We’re going to pixelate the faces with a simple process using the Pixelate and Mosaic features in Photoshop.
- Go to filter > pixelate > mosaic.
- change that cell size with the slider. For this example, we entered a value of 45. Then press OK.
- Press ctrl + D to get rid of the marching ants.
The result is a perfect copy of an image with pixelated children’s faces.
If you want to edit your portraits further, we’ll show you how to transform your portraits into Photoshop using the PortraitPro plugin.
Photoshop makes it easy to pixelate someone’s face
We showed you how incredibly easy it is to pixelate a person’s face in Photoshop. Now you can share confidential images without having to do a lot of work to completely remove people from your photos.
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