It is basically the concept with which this application called File Camouflage has been defined on the Internet, a utility that for many people is ideal when you want a hide private information (as far as images are concerned) camouflaged in a simple and innocent photograph.
File Camouflage It is a tool that you can download "completely free"; This free feature gives a lot to think about for those who have obtained it, since despite the proposal made by its developer, there are a few drawbacks that arise from the moment of its execution; After having solved these problems, image processing is limited, situation that we will analyze in this article.
Free Download and Problematic Running of File Camouflage
Under no circumstances could we mention that the free download that its developer alludes to is a falsehood, since anyone can access its website and Download the tool without any problem. The file that we will obtain hosted on our computer is compressed in Zip format. Decompression does not involve any type of problem either, and a specific folder can be created to house the files that will be included in this tool.
Incidentally, File Camouflage It is a portable application, which means that we will not need to install anything at all in our operating system.
The first problem occurs when we run the tool (for the first time), something we will realize if we have a good antivirus system installed on our Windows computer. Apparently, our computer's security system is activated alerting us that there is a threat wanting to harm our computer, which is why we must pay attention to what the antivirus recommends and disinfect (also block) any strange activity that is about to arise.
After we have proceeded to disinfect any incoming threat to our Windows computer and the antivirus system, each of the windows that have been opened with File Camouflage will be closed immediately; These windows are pop-up, which They ask the user to download the full version of this tool, a situation that is not necessary to do if we are going to try to run this application as a test.
If we look at the content of the directory that initially housed File Camouflage, we can notice that a few more files have been created and among them, a Temp folder.
Now we can be ready to execute, start using each of the functions of File Camouflage, which are distributed in different options in its interface and which we will analyze below.
Working with the interface File Camouflage
Having solved all the problems or inconveniences that were presented above, we must warn the reader that under no circumstances disable your antivirus system, having to pay attention to what he himself requests when "disinfecting" any intrusion that is coming from third-party applications.
The interface that presents us File Camouflage It is quite intuitive, since in it we have the following fields:
- Tabs to camouflage and de-camouflage a photograph.
- Option to select the image we want to camouflage.
- Use a specific image or a random one from a directory to camouflage the image.
- Definition of the folder where we want the camouflaged photograph to be created.
- Option to place a password on the camouflaged photograph.
Well, these elements that we have mentioned are distributed in a friendly interface within File Camouflage, The really interesting thing is how the application works. For this we will propose a simple example; We are going to try to incorporate the photograph of any person, which we will camouflage with the image of a flower (image placed first in the article).
The resulting image will be a photograph of a flower, which will have inside the photograph of the face that we previously selected.
If we compare the image of the original flower with the subsequently processed one, we will realize that both differ from each other only by weight, with the last one (the processed one) being the one that will take a greater number of bytes than the first.
Among the disadvantages that can be mentioned about File Camouflage, the tool only has the capacity to process one image at a time, there is no possibility of performing the same procedure on an entire directory or folder of photographs.
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