How to Hide Important Files inside a Picture

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The title seems kind of weird and interesting but its definitely possible. You can easily hide important files inside a picture such that the file becomes totally impossible to trace. This Windows trick is not a new one and probably most of you would already know about it but for those who don't, it can come of great use anytime.

The file you want to save inside a picture can be of any extension e.g. exe, txt, mp3, avi or any other. This is probably the most secure way of hiding your private files in case you share your computer with your family members and you don't want them to get a peek of your hidden files.

You will be needing WinRAR to perform this trick but as it is one of the world's most commonly used software so I would assume that everyone reading this tutorial has got it already.


Here is how it goes:

  1. Open C: Drive and make a folder in it e.g. "sizlopedia". Put both the files i.e. the file that you want to hide and the image inside which you want to hide the file into this folder
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  2. Select both the files and make a compressed RAR archive e.g. "secret.rar" out of them
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  3. Open Run and type in "cmd" to open the Command Prompt. Now type "cd.." and press enter and repeat this once again. Type "cd sizlopedia" to open the folder (where "sizlopedia" is the folder that I am using in this tutorial)
  4. Type the command "copy /b maria.jpg + secret.rar safe.jpg" and press enter
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  5. Thw new picture safe.jpg is now the nested Picture file which has the hidden file saved inside it. Change its extension from .jpg to .rar anytime to access or extract the hidden file
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Definitely cool and amazing trick.

  • Pavan Kumar
    How to get back the hidden file?
  • Nice trick DJ, I imagine that it will be useful to some of us out there.
  • Really amazing buddy . Good way to hide important files.
  • I think this trick only work for WinRAR, right? I try to use Winzip or Tugzip, but it can't work.
  • Senthil Kumar
    How to retrieve the hidden file?
  • This is somethin really cool. I had posted about hiding text in images in my site few days back. But files in images is something really awesome!
  • You don't need to create the archive out of both files (image + the document you want to hide). Just tried it, and this trick works even if the RAR contains only your secret file.

    Great tip, though ;)
  • Rahul
    How to retreat the hidden file?
  • Guys please read the 5th step again as it clearly tells you how to retreat the file.

    Just change the extension of the image from .jpg to .rar anytime and you can extract the hidden file from it. I hope you understand now?
  • Interesting. It is also useful to send confidential files through internet.
  • Fedor
    This works with .7z's.
  • Pavithra
    Thanks this is a useful trick :)

    Is there any other way I can hide the text file without using the command prompt?
  • aki
    I read it twice really carefully and I still can't retreive the file. I tried both "raname .jpg .rar in cmd prompt and in normal windows with extensins displayed and it says that it's corrupted/damaged when I try to open the archive.
  • Todd
    Where can I get this software? What is it called? Can someone please provide me with some details? Thanks!
  • Mort
    to get back ur files just rename it .rar an the rar version will appear
  • Mort
    Dear Tod,
    All you need is a windows system, download RAR file compression software and that's it everything else is already built in. Then fallow the instructions above. Its that easy!
  • Mort
    Aki do you have RAR software installed??? that maybe be problem
  • me
    for anyone who doesnt get it:
    you can do this with ANY files, even if there is more than two, and even if the are not jpg. All this does is make a rar archive 'inside' another file. also, instead of changing the extension to .rar, you can just open the file with winrar.
  • kilory
    I was unable to extract the files when using RAR as the archive format, but was able to do so using ZIP as the format.
  • Thats really cool trick, i liked it a lot, thanks.
  • suj123456
    gr8 trick !!!!!!!!!!!111

    excellenttttttttttttttttttttttttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Geek
    Awesome, this has really helped
  • cbethalai
    how to change extention
  • Chet Hofty
    In Vista, go to my computer, and click on "Organize" in the top navpane, and select "Folder and Search Options".
    Click on the "view" tab, and uncheck the "Hide extensions for known file types" box.
    Your filenames should now display the extension, which can be changed by renaming the file.
  • Faris
    this is great ha, i never wonder anything like this. you have done a great job yar.
    thank you for let me know about this.
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