Hiya Jo where are you located?

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Why not chop your head off like I , am most others do. Or turn your face away, with hair awry.

Apparently techy people can unblur and take off black boxes so better safe than sorry.

I use "picasa" Its soooo easy to use, even airbrushing ect is super simple, i could never get my head around gimp, its like photoshop, they just confuse  xxx

GIMP works for me (I usually pixellate the area first, then do a Gaussian blur - the results look better than just pixellating and are more secure than just blurring), but no, it's not for everyone.

How do you get Picasa to blur an area? As a photo organiser and 'touch up' program, it's wonderful, but I've never spotted any facility to make things look worse

Doing it with video is a pain or involves some neat but expensive software (or sometimes both). It's easier to just wear a mask or other physical disguise.

Apparently techy people can unblur and take off black boxes so better safe than sorry.

Some effects are undoable, more or less, but you can only guess at what's been overwritten by a solid black shape.

How do you get Picasa to blur an area? As a photo organiser and 'touch up' program, it's wonderful, but I've never spotted any facility to make things look worse

I wondered this too - I don't blur my face so that's not a concern of mine, but I use Picasa for tinkering with/organising photos and I've never noticed a blurring tool? They have brought a few new editions out lately, so I could well have missed it.

I normally just put a flash effect on face only takes few mins and i think it looks better + i would think its harder to remove (if you believe it can be removed).

Fliters / Light and shadow / Supernova.

The problem I have now though is when I crop photos then upload them to my website part of the photo is missing, even though I resized the cropped pic back to its original size!  I've always cropped using Paint and uploaded cropped pics to my website before with no problems, but for some reason it won't upload the full cropped pic now (theres like 3/4 of my picture sat there in the picture space on my website) - is this a website problem or is it me doing something wrong?

This will be harder to answer without more information about what kind of website you have. Wordpress, Moonfruit, Wix, other?

If you've cropped a picture (so it goes from being, say, 500 pixels high to being 400 pixels high) and then enlarged it to go back to its original size, you'll actually be stretching the pixels that are left post-crop. It's not a good idea to do this. It's easy to shrink images but you cannot make them bigger without creating some extra pixels. I may be misunderstanding you there, but just wanted to note that in case you were stretching your pictures out.

What part of the photo is missing when you upload the cropped pictures?

The height and width ratio of your images might be off now. So, if you picture was 500 x 500 pixels (height and width) but you crop half the face off the top, it'll now be 400 x 500 pixels. If you resize it upwards from the top-right-hand corner, it'll get taller and wider in proportion. So it'll now be 500 x 600 pixels. Your website might be expecting an image that's 500 x 500 so it'll shrink that extra width down to fit, and the gap at the top (those 100 pixels you cropped) will return.

You may be stretching the image upward only, though, to make them 500 x 500 again (sorry - just using those sizes for my example!), in which case this won't be the issue.

If you can PM me a link, I could have a proper rummage. Although not if it's a Flash-based site (Wix, and some Moonfruit, I think?); I can't help you there!