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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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I wanted to see her in the video but her face was blacked out. Correct?
  

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Anonymous I wanted to see her in the video but her face was blacked out. Correct? I would use 'obscured' instead, but there may be an industry term for the technique.

— Mister Micawber

  • Anonymous I wanted to see her in the video but her face was blacked out.
  • Correct?
  • I would use 'obscured' instead, but there may be an industry term for the technique.
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AnonymousI wanted to see her in the video but her face was blacked out. Correct?
I would use 'obscured' instead, but there may be an industry term for the technique. (I suppose that her face was obscured with fewer 'pixels' or whatever it is that they do to make it fuzzy.)
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AnonymousI wanted to see her in the video but her face was blacked blurred (out).
The technical term for "to blur out (a face)" is "to pixelate (a face)".

CJ
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Mister MicawberI would use 'obscured' instead
This is a better suggestion to use in general because, there are different ways of obscuring a person's face.

It could be blacked out, if a black shape covers it. It could be pixelated, if pixels cover it. It could instead be blurred. It could just be kept out of view. It depends on wh
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