How to hide data in an image

hide data in a photo

When it comes to the safety of data, specially important data, it must be approached with at most seriousness. And as we know, to hide data we need to keep it at safest place. One such way is by hiding the data in the picture form.

Step 1 :

• Create a folder of whose contents you need to hide

Step 2 :

• Make a zip or compressed file of that folder

Step 3 :

• Open command prompt and run it as administrator

Step 4 :

• Change the directory from system32 to the directory which contains your folder, by copy pasting the location of the directory and writing cd before the directory address in command prompt like the image given below. Make sure you dont write the address that is written in the image below because this address will be different for everyone.

Step 5 :

• Now type the command from the image given below, make sure you use the appropriate file names according to what you have created : copy /b img.jpg+file.zip finalimg.jpg

Step 6 :

Your image will now be created in the same directory, which will contains you hidden files. If you try to open it normally by double clicking the normal image will open. But if you try to open it by archiver (like 7zip, winrar etc) then you will be able to see the hidden files.