Steganography Lab

Hide a message in a picture. The secret is in the pixels.

Images and messages stay in your browser
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Observatory postcard
original image: Observatory postcard
PNG or JPEG / up to 8 MB and 4 million pixels

Your secret message

27 / 0 bytesUTF-8

PNG or JPEG, up to 8 MB and 4 million pixels. Transparent areas become white.

The hidden message

Text is stored in the lowest bit of red, green, and blue values. Each color changes by at most 1.

01

Hidden, not encrypted

Steganography conceals a message inside something else. Encryption scrambles its meaning. Anyone with a compatible decoder can read this message. Keep the original PNG: resizing, screenshots, and JPEG conversion can change its bits.