There
are many ways to hide and secure your sensitive information. Sometimes
hiding sensitive information in plain sight can be the best way to hide it. And
since there’s probably a lot of images on your computer, why not use them to
hide text, without affecting the images and raising suspicion? Yes, it is
possible to hide your text, files, and folders inside image files.
How To Hide
Files and Folders Inside Image Files?
To hide files inside image files, you will need to have either
WinZip or WinRAR installed on your computer. You can download either of these
two off the Internet and use them without having to pay anything. Here are the
steps for creating your hidden stash:
Step 1: Create a folder on your hard drive, i.e. C:\hide and put in all of the files that you want to hide into
that folder. Also, place the image in the same folder that you will be using to
hide the files in.
Step 2: Now select all of the files that you want to hide,
right-click on them, and choose the option to add them to a compressed ZIP or
RAR file. Only select the files you want to hide, not the picture. Name it
whatever you want, i,e. “Hidefiles.rar”.
Step 3: Now you should have a folder that looks something like this with
files, a JPG image, and a compressed archive
Step 4: Now open command prompt. (Press Window + R to open Run,
type CMD and Press ok)
Step 5: Type CD \ in command prompt to open root
directory. Type cd hide to open your folder that
contains Hidefiles.rar file and JPG image.
Step 6: Now type copy /b technotification.JPG +
hidefiles.rar technotification.jpg and Enter.
Step 7: Now the files are successfully hidden inside the
image technotification.jpg .
Now
if you open the hide folder once again, you will see all the
files there as it was before. You can delete them all if you want except the
image because the 3 files that you compressed are placed inside the image. The
image will look normal, nobody can know that there are 3 files hidden inside
the image.
How to show hidden files inside a image?
If you want to retrieve those files back to normal. You’ll
have to open the image with Winrar or Winzip software.
