How to Hide Secret Message Inside a Picture

Many times, in crowd (lets say, in computer lab, Office, etc.) you want to send some secret message to your to someone. But others will not allow you to do this in front of them because they will put there head to tail effort to know what secret message you are trying to send. So, its smart to share secret message in such a way that others will not able to identify.

Is this idea interesting? Even if other people will see the picture, they’ll not be able to identify whether the image contains any secret message.

So, how to do this?

Just follow this guide and you’ll become expert to encode messages inside images. The best thing is, you don’t required any additional software for this purpose, just the basic MS-Paint, Notepad and Command Prompt of Windows.

Steps to Hide Secret Message Inside an Image:

Step 1: Create a folder on desktop. For example, secret.

Step 2: Inside this folder, put a Bitmap (.BMP) Image File. If you don’t have one, open MS-Paint, add some colors (you can even choose a blank pic) to MS-paint windows and save it in .BMP image format by choosing image format from the drop-down menu, at save window.

Step 3: Now, open Notepad, write your secret message and save it with any name inside this secret folder. For example, note.txt

Step 4: [Encoding] Open Command Prompt by typing cmd in Run dialogue box (shortcut key: Win+R). Now, to encode your message inside the BMP pic, enter this code:

copy "<PICTURE FILE PATH>" + "<TEXT FILE PATH>" "<NEW PICTURE PATH>"

Example: copy "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\Secret\mypic.bmp" + "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\Secret\note.txt" "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\Secret\secret.bmp"

Hit Enter.  Now, your new encoded image will be created having your message encoded inside it.

Step 5: Now, go to your secret folder that you’ve created at your desktop. Here, you’ll find an extra image file, the image having your message encoded (secret.bmp).

Step 6: Right click on the new image file (secret.bmp). Choose Open with >> Notepad.

Step 7: Now, scroll down to the end at notepad and you’ll find your secret message here.

You can use this trick frequently to send secret messages to your friends. You can send this image through email to your friends and they’ll be able to get your secret message secretly.

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