How to censor someone

In this tutorial i will explain how you can censor someone using a filter in Photoshop. Let's open up this image and say that we want to censor the girl with the tongue out


First of all, you need to make a selection of the whole face using the Elliptical Marquee Tool (first you must click&hold on Rectangular Marquee Tool in order to see it). The shortcut for this is M.


Then, go to Filter - Pixelate - Mosaic, and play with the slider until you like the result. If the Cell size is very small, you can still see the face, so it's better to raise it up to about 18, in this case.

Here is the result:


Quick note: hit Ctrl+D to make the ellipse dissapear