Steps

Helpful steps to follow

First you need to download and install WinRAR from http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm.
Now what you will need to do is to go to your C drive. You can do this by finding the My Computer icon (either on your desktop or in your Start menu) and then click on “Local Disk (C:)”
Now that you are in the Local Disk (C:) folder, click on File in the upper left of the screen, then click on New, then Click on Folder.
This will create a New Folder. Change the name of the folder to “files”
Now you will need to find a picture, and the file that you are wanting to hide in the picture and move them to this “files” folder that you just created. Note: the files you use must only have one word names. For instance,”secret file.txt” would not work. It would have to be “secret.txt”
Now you will need to right click with your mouse on the “secret.txt” file and choose “Add to ‘secret.rar'” from the menu that pops up. This will create a RAR file with “secret.txt” inside it.
Now that you have zipped “secret.txt” up into an RAR file, you will need to click on the Start button in the lower left of your screen and then choose “Run…”
Once the Run command window pops up, type “cmd” in the box and click OK.
This will launch a Command Prompt window. In this window you will need to navigate to the “files” folder you just created. To do this, you will use the “current directory” (cd) command. So type in “cd c:\files” and then hit enter.
Now the prompt should say “C:\Files>”. Now type this command in order to hide the RAR file into the picture file: “copy /b [your picture].jpg + [your file].rar [new picture].jpg” For example, mine would look like this: “copy /b Sunset.jpg + secret.rar picture.jpg”
When you are through with typing in what’s above, hit enter.
Now you can close out of the console. And if you look in your “files” folder, you will see the newly created “picture.jpg” file. If you open this file up, it will look just like the original picutre. If you save it to a disk and transport it to another computer, it will copy, move, and open up just like any other picture file.
To extract the file back out of the picture, you will need to open up the WinRAR program (it is probably under the Start button > All Programs > WinRAR).
Once the WinRAR program starts, click on “File” at the top and go to “Open Archive”.
Click on “My Computer” on the panel to the left. Then click on “Local Disk (C :)”. Then click on the “files” folder.
Now at the bottom of the window, where it says “Files of type:”, choose “All Files” from the drop down menu.
Now you should see the picture file you created, “picture.jpg”. Click on it, and then click open. This will open up the picture as if it were a RAR file.
Then just click the “Extract To” button at the top and it will extract your file.

Hide Files Inside Pictures

Overview

Basic overview of what we will be doing

Steps

Helpful steps to follow