Which file gets changed
Open Cover up and the reading and the calculating both happen inside this browser. The area you boxed, the strokes you painted, are rendered on this device into a new JPG, and then handed to you to download. ReadyIMG has no account server that receives pictures, and no sign-in or sign-up.
So the copy you send is the one you downloaded. The original is still in the folder it came from, unless you move or delete it yourself. Covering does not reach back and rewrite the old file on disk, and it does not save anything while you have not pressed download. The queue lives only in this one open tab: refresh or close the page, and results you never downloaded are gone.
Covering changes the new file you download. The original is still where it was.
Two ways to place the cover
Boxing suits things with a straight edge: a licence plate, a door number, the string of digits on a courier label, the name on a badge. Drag a rectangle over it and set the position and size yourself. Painting suits edges that will not sit in a box, such as a chain slipping out of a collar, or half a passer-by's face in the background. Everywhere the brush touches gets treated; the edge comes out slightly soft, which does not hurt the cover.
One picture can hold several covers. Do the big ones first, then the small ones. The step works on the picture in front of you and does not run down the queue changing the rest. To send a set, go one at a time and download each after you have checked it.
- Box: plates, door numbers, order numbers, badges. Anything with a clear boundary.
- Paint: the small patch a box cannot hold, or an edge that is too soft.
- The two stack on the same picture. Box first, paint second.
- You download each one yourself. Anything not downloaded goes away on refresh.
The face button depends on your browser
There is a find-faces button on the page. It uses the FaceDetector interface built into this browser, not a face server run by ReadyIMG. If the browser recognises a face, it marks the spot and you decide whether to cover it. If the browser has no such interface, the button does not appear and the page asks you to box or paint instead. Either way the picture never leaves this device.
Do not treat it as guaranteed. A profile, a hat, low light, or a face that is small in the frame can all be missed. Even when it does mark something, look: does the cover sit over the eyes and the line of the nose, or is half a cheek still showing. That call is yours, not the button's.
Finding a face uses this browser's own interface. If it is missing, box or paint it yourself.
Strength runs from 2 to 40
Blur strength is a number from 2 to 40. Low, and the shape is still recognisable, only the detail is smeared. High, and the area becomes a block of colour with a rough idea of the hue. To hide information, go towards the high end. To keep the picture looking natural, say when you are only covering a stranger in the background, a little above the middle is enough. Blur it too lightly and a string of digits can still be read, which means you may as well not have covered it.
The output is JPG. JPG has no transparency layer, so whatever was empty gets filled with a background colour, usually white. If this picture had a transparent edge, look at the corners after you blur. To keep the transparency, do not finish in JPG here; open Make JPG first and see what the fill colour will do, then decide whether to send it.
The one thing that touches the network
When the page opens, the visit is counted once by 51.LA. What is counted is that someone opened the page, not your image files. How files are handled draws that line: pictures are not uploaded to ReadyIMG, and there is no account server here that receives them.
Three looks before you send
- Is every spot covered: the face, the plate, the order number, the door, the name on the screen.
- Is the blur strong enough. Zoom in a little; if you can still read it, add more.
- Are you sending the covered copy. Do not let the original slip into the same message.
If nothing is loaded yet, go back to the bench, drop the picture in, then open Cover up. One at a time, look at each before you download. Rename the new file before you send it, so it does not get lost next to the original in the same folder.
If a person in the background has to go entirely, that is a different step. Read does background removal upload the photo first, get the removal path clear, then come back and decide what still needs covering. If you do both, remove first and cover second. Do not swap the order.