Alfred Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 6 minutes ago, Doryan said: Sorry for being a "Newbie", I can't hide my profile status, so I might as well embrace it with honor. No, you can't hide it, but you can change it! Go to your profile page, click on the 'Edit Profile' link at the top of the header area, type your preferred Member Title in the panel that pops up, and then press the 'Save' button at the bottom of that panel. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myclay Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 hm this is the best I can do with the lowquality photo, it seemed like the face was faintly hidden in the blue channel and a tiny bit in the red one. Channel Mixer Adjustment (cmyk): changed the cyan sliders (mistakenly also edited the yellow one which results in a darker color for the circle) Levels Adjustment (cmyk ): clipping the white level - need to cut uout a lot to reveal the face, copied the image to overlay it and used 'color' as a blendmode for the layer Denoise to get rid of the noise, Clarity to bring in some more contrast. Quote Sketchbook (with Affinity Suite usage) | timurariman.com | artstation store Windows 11 Pro - 23H2 | Ryzen 5800X3D | RTX 3090 - 24GB | 128GB | Main SSD with 1TB | SSD 4TB | PCIe SSD 256GB (configured as Scratch disk) | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchshader Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 14 minutes ago, Doryan said: dutchshader - It would be awesome if you could share with us the method you used. Thanks in advance. Only a trashhold adjustment Quote intel core i5, 16GB 128Gb ssd win10 Pro Huion new 1060plus. philips 272p 2560x1440px on intel HD2500 onboard graphics Razer Tartarus Chroma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 Easy peasy lemon squeezy: Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.4.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 20 minutes ago, firstdefence said: Easy peasy lemon squeezy: {snip} For what it's worth, that looks like the method I used. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 9 hours ago, Alfred said: If you don't know what technique @Sima used, how are you in a position to say that your way is "another way", rather than just a variant of the same method? Because @Sima's screenshot of the AP program does not contain what is in mine. Plus his reveal of the image is vastly different to what I have seen before. There is definitely a different technique at work there. I'll reveal our way at about 11am UK time, because I am actually quite interested in how many people can decode the image for another reason, which I'll explain later as well. PS From the solutions posted so far Madame's solution would appear to be the one that looks like it is using the same technique we use but any solution is viable if it can reveal the image. Doryan 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myclay Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 I wonder what method you used, here are a couple other methods single step ones; results with the Tone Mapping Persona; neural networks can also help a lot when you want to regain information from blurred or lost/pixelated images; https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.00783.pdf Quote Sketchbook (with Affinity Suite usage) | timurariman.com | artstation store Windows 11 Pro - 23H2 | Ryzen 5800X3D | RTX 3090 - 24GB | 128GB | Main SSD with 1TB | SSD 4TB | PCIe SSD 256GB (configured as Scratch disk) | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 The attached screenshot shows how we reveal the image which is surprisingly simple, just using a levels adjustment with a very high Black Level setting and increasing the Gamma a bit for more clarity. ( The Black and White adjustment is not really needed, it is just there to show the image in Black and White) But how to reveal the hidden image is only half the mystery, part of the wizardry is how to create such an image in the first place and that relies on the fact that the hidden image is still there but something the human eye cannot see but your PC/Mac can. Try it. We use a similar (but different) technique to add invisible watermarks to our clients' images which is why I was interested in how many of you could decode the image and how you did it. Humans may be top of the animal kingdom but include the machine world and we are now in second place and the machines will continue to outpace us at a rate we will never catch up to. So be nice to your kettle this morning because in a few years time it could be instructing your laptop to upload naked pictures of you to the Internet if you abuse it. myclay 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medical Officer Bones Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 I blame CSI. Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanSG Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 5 hours ago, carl123 said: We use a similar (but different) technique to add invisible watermarks to our clients' images Without going into too much detail, I'm curious as to how sophisticated your steganographic techniques need to be for this sort of thing - are clients actively looking for hidden watermarks or do you just need something they're unlikely to stumble upon by accident? Quote AP, AD & APub user, running Win10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medical Officer Bones Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 5 hours ago, carl123 said: The attached screenshot shows how we reveal the image which is surprisingly simple, just using a levels adjustment with a very high Black Level setting and increasing the Gamma a bit for more clarity. ( The Black and White adjustment is not really needed, it is just there to show the image in Black and White) But how to reveal the hidden image is only half the mystery, part of the wizardry is how to create such an image in the first place and that relies on the fact that the hidden image is still there but something the human eye cannot see but your PC/Mac can. Try it. We use a similar (but different) technique to add invisible watermarks to our clients' images which is why I was interested in how many of you could decode the image and how you did it. Humans may be top of the animal kingdom but include the machine world and we are now in second place and the machines will continue to outpace us at a rate we will never catch up to. So be nice to your kettle this morning because in a few years time it could be instructing your laptop to upload naked pictures of you to the Internet if you abuse it. I am able to make out a face in the circle on my screen, however. A simple circular selection and auto levels reveals it. If anyone is able to figure out the hidden message in this image, I'll buy them a free beer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 17 minutes ago, Medical Officer Bones said: I am able to make out a face in the circle on my screen, however. A simple circular selection and auto levels reveals it. That's interesting, as doing that on the original image doesn't do anything for me. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 35 minutes ago, IanSG said: Without going into too much detail, I'm curious as to how sophisticated your steganographic techniques need to be for this sort of thing - are clients actively looking for hidden watermarks or do you just need something they're unlikely to stumble upon by accident? Sometimes clients pay to have specific photographs done to enhance their business Consider a restaurant that has a specialist food photographer come in and photograph their plates of food. The last thing the restaurant wants is a copyright notice on all the images of their food distracting the viewer from the food itself. But they also don't want other restaurants copying their images and using them to promote their own business. In these cases we would recommend to the client to use a hidden watermark which is enough to be able to get the other business to stop using your photographs or to sue them if you wanted to. Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchshader Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 38 minutes ago, Medical Officer Bones said: If anyone is able to figure out the hidden message in this image, I'll buy them a free beer. is it sting? Quote intel core i5, 16GB 128Gb ssd win10 Pro Huion new 1060plus. philips 272p 2560x1440px on intel HD2500 onboard graphics Razer Tartarus Chroma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medical Officer Bones Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 No, it's not sting. Hint: the message consists of 5 words by John Lennon. Second hint: messages hidden in other messages Final hint: https://futureboy.us/stegano/decinput.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 "Love is all you need" Is the answer But was this solvable using just Affinity Photo? I found the answer another way Cart 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toltec Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 On 4/30/2018 at 10:57 AM, carl123 said: So be nice to your kettle this morning because in a few years time it could be instructing your laptop to upload naked pictures of you to the Internet if you abuse it. Too late. And all I did was say I wanted a second cup of coffee. Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cart Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 On 4/29/2018 at 7:58 PM, dutchshader said: it took me a while, the result: Hey @dutchshader was kindly asking what application you used I need it for an assignment ps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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