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How to blur a face in an image with Irfan and Paint

Step 1. Put the original image in your working folder. Save it as a.jpg.

a.jpg

 

Step 2. Open a.jpg in Irfan. Blur the whole image by using Image/Effects/Blur repeatedly until you are satisfied with the degree of blurring. (Several other options, including Pixelize, are available under Image/Effects.) Save the blurry image as b.jpg.
b.jpg

 

Step 3. Open a.jpg in MS Paint (found among "Accessories" in Windows). Double (at least) the vertical size of the image (in Image Attributes). Save the image as aa.jpg.

Step 4. Open b.jpg in MS Paint. Use Edit/Select All to select the whole image. Right-click and Copy. The Image is now stored in buffer.

Step 5. Open aa.jpg in MS Paint. Right-click and Paste. The original image at the top of aa.jpg is now covered by the blurred image. Drag the blurred image down to the bottom of aa.jpg, uncovering the original image at the top. Click outside the image and save the result as aa.jpg (overwriting the previous version).

See image.

aa.jpg

Step 6. Use the "magnifying glass" in the MS Paint menu to expand the image, so that it is easy to outline the area to be transferred from the blurred image to the original image. Select the "lasso" tool (top left in the menu) and the transparency mode (at the bottom of the menu).

Step 7. Now use the "lasso" at top left to outline the area. Once you have closed the loop, drag the outlined area (looks like a rectangle, but in transparency mode it is just the area you have outlined) to the top image and place it where it should be.

Step 8. You may need to soften the contour around the blurred insert, so it looks a little more natural than I have achieved. Do this by expanding the image in MS Paint and using the drawing tools pixel by pixel .

Save the result.

 

 

Selecting the blurred area in aa.jpg.

Step 9. Crop the image so that just the top half remains. Save as c.jpg.

c.jpg
Last edited or checked March 12, 2010.