Editing Pixelization (section)

{{Short description|Blurring technique in images or videos}}
{{About|the graphical editing/censorship technique|the undesirable phenomenon in which individual pixels are visible|Pixelation|the stop motion animation technique|Pixilation}}
{{Refimprove|date=December 2008|article on [[Censorship|image censorship]]}}

'''Pixelization''' (in [[British English]] '''pixelisation''') or '''mosaic processing''' is any technique used in editing images or video, whereby an image is blurred by displaying part or all of it at a markedly lower [[Image resolution|resolution]]. It is primarily used for [[censorship]]. The effect is a standard graphics filter, available in all but the most basic [[Raster graphics editor|bitmap graphics editor]]s.