Uploading Photos

Uploading a photo on BrightBlur involves three steps: selecting the photo, tagging faces, and choosing your audience.

Step 1: select your photo

Tap Upload in the navigation bar and choose a photo from your gallery, or take one with your camera.

Step 2: face detection & tagging

BrightBlur automatically detects faces in your photo. For each detected face, you choose one of three options:

• Tag — assign the face to a person. The face slice is encrypted to that person’s key. Only their controllers and the circles you share with can see it.
• Visible to all — leave the face unblurred for everyone who can see the photo. Use this for people who’ve consented to being shown, or for yourself.
• Blur — permanently pixelate the face for everyone. The original pixels are destroyed. This is irreversible.

If the detector misses a face, tap Missed someone? to manually draw a bounding box around it.

Step 3: choose audience & caption

Select which circles should be able to see this photo and add an optional caption.

You’ll see a preview of the pixelated result before publishing. Once you’re happy, tap Publish. The photo is encrypted on your device and uploaded as encrypted data.

If you share with the same circles every time, set default circles to skip this step.