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I've captured a screenshot and I want to share it (on stackoverflow actually :), but I need to blur/hide out a couple words in the screenshot. Is a there tool to quickly do this?

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You can use Preview in two ways:

  • Use the Annotation tool to draw a filled rectangle over the area you want to hide. You can select the fill color.

  • Use the Selection tool to select the area you want to hide and then cut it. The area will be replaced by a gray area (or whatever color is set as window background in Preferences/General).

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Although these methods do not blur the area, they address the intentions of the OP. – lhf Nov 28 '12 at 1:57
Your right lhf, I updated my question to be clearer the goal was to hide the text, blurring is just one way to do it. – studgeek Dec 10 '12 at 17:37
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Skitch can do this quickly. See?

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Just click the blur button in the side bar and draw over your image to obscure things.

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Thanks, this looks like a good tool to know. I voted this up, but went with the Preview answer because its native. – studgeek Dec 10 '12 at 17:38

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