Can I mix blur, boxes, and crop on the same screenshot?
Yes. This variant keeps the full screenshot redaction toolkit, so you can stack multiple edit types before exporting.
Is this different from the main screenshot redactor page?
The editor is the same. This page is a specialized SEO entry point with screenshot-redaction-focused copy and metadata.
Does the cleaned file keep the original metadata?
No. Export runs through canvas, which preserves the visible image but strips common source metadata.
Which mode is an actual redaction?
The black box, the white box and crop. The boxes overwrite the pixels with a flat colour, and crop removes the region from the frame. Blur and pixelate are reversible transforms of the original pixels, and text hidden with either has been recovered by public tools.
Is the cropped-away part really gone from the file?
Yes. The tool draws the cropped region into a fresh canvas and encodes an entirely new file from it. There is no truncated original underneath, which is the flaw that made some phone and desktop screenshot editors leak cropped content a few years ago.
Can I mix modes on the same screenshot?
Yes. Every rectangle you draw is applied as an independent action, so you can black-box the account number, blur the avatar and crop the notification bar in one pass, then export once.
What do people usually miss?
Everything outside the field they were focused on: browser tabs, the window title, the clock, a notification banner, an autocomplete dropdown, a name in the sidebar, a reflection. Zoom out and read the whole frame before you export.
Does the redacted file keep any metadata?
No. The export is encoded from a canvas, so the resulting file carries no EXIF from the original.