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Deliver listing photos with no bystanders in them
A listing shoot catches more than the house: the owner watching from the porch, a neighbor across the street, kids in the yard next door. Publishing those faces is a privacy problem you do not want on an MLS. HideFace scans a whole shoot and covers the faces it finds automatically, so the deliverables you hand the agent are clean.
Drop the entire folder in at once. Each photo is detected on its own, you review and export the batch, and the client files never leave your machine. It replaces masking each photo by hand in an editor.
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Bystanders covered across the whole shoot in one pass
Key facts
Batch a whole shoot in one pass instead of editing photo by photo
Detects faces per photo, including people in windows and yards
Handles walkthrough video too, with tracking across frames
Cover everyone, or keep the people who agreed to appear
Client files are processed on your PC and never uploaded
Detection is not guaranteed, so check the batch before you hand it over
How to clear bystanders from a shoot
Drop in the whole shoot, photos and walkthrough clips.
HideFace detects the faces in each file.
Cover everyone, or keep the people who agreed to appear.
Review the batch, then export the clean deliverables. Nothing you import is uploaded.
Built for a full shoot
Batch processing replaces masking each photo by hand in an editor.
Client files stay on your machine, not on a stock web tool.
It looks for the face in the second-story window, not just the one on the lawn.
Detection is not guaranteed, so review the batch before it reaches the agent.
Frequently asked questions
Can I process a whole shoot at once? Yes. Drop in a folder and HideFace runs detection on every photo, so you export a full batch of clean deliverables together.
Does it work on walkthrough video, not just stills? Yes. Faces in video are tracked frame by frame so they stay covered as the camera moves through the home.
Are the client files uploaded anywhere? No. Everything runs on your own computer, so listing files never leave your machine.
Can it blur license plates too? HideFace focuses on faces. It does not automatically detect license plates, so plan to frame those out or handle them separately.
How fast is a batch? It depends on your machine and the number of photos; Pro uses your GPU for video, which speeds up walkthrough clips considerably.
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