Simple pixelation of faces for anonymity?

From: Scott Marquardt
Organization: EarthLink Inc. — http://www.EarthLink.net Newsgroups:
rec.photo.digital,alt.graphics.photoshop,comp.graphics.apps. photoshop Followup-To: alt.graphics.photoshop
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 07:47:21 GMT
Subject: Simple pixelation of faces for anonymity?

Followups set to alt.graphics.photoshop

Our social service organization is trying out Picasa and Hello, which work well together for our purposes. However, some of our photographs invariably include people we’re not authorized to include if the images go beyond internal use. I’m thinking of crowd shots — 20 people in a picture and there’s one whose image just can’t "go public," for legal reasons — but someone wants to use the picture.

Most image editing software provides methods which would work to obscure identity by pixelating or blurring facial features. However, since Picasa might be a one-stop shop for most of our people (it’s editing features are adequate with this single exception), we don’t want to deploy anything in the general photo editing software dept.

I’m looking for a darned simple application that a user could dash into, fuzz a face with a few clicks, and dash out of again.

Anything like that in the market?

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Scott

Followups set to alt.graphics.photoshop

Our social service organization is trying out Picasa and Hello, which work well together for our purposes. However, some of our photographs invariably include people we’re not authorized to include if the images go beyond internal use. I’m thinking of crowd shots — 20 people in a picture and there’s one whose image just can’t "go public," for legal reasons — but someone wants to use the picture.

Most image editing software provides methods which would work to obscure identity by pixelating or blurring facial features. However, since Picasa might be a one-stop shop for most of our people (it’s editing features are adequate with this single exception), we don’t want to deploy anything in the general photo editing software dept.

I’m looking for a darned simple application that a user could dash into, fuzz a face with a few clicks, and dash out of again.

Anything like that in the market?

Followups set to alt.graphics.photoshop

Our social service organization is trying out Picasa and Hello, which work well together for our purposes. However, some of our photographs invariably include people we’re not authorized to include if the images go beyond internal use. I’m thinking of crowd shots — 20 people in a picture and there’s one whose image just can’t "go public," for legal reasons — but someone wants to use the picture.

Most image editing software provides methods which would work to obscure identity by pixelating or blurring facial features. However, since Picasa might be a one-stop shop for most of our people (it’s editing features are adequate with this single exception), we don’t want to deploy anything in the general photo editing software dept.

I’m looking for a darned simple application that a user could dash into, fuzz a face with a few clicks, and dash out of again.

Anything like that in the market?

—

Scott