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Mon Nov 02, 2020 11:26 am
GIMP Version: 2.8.22
Operating System: Windows
OS Version: Windows 10
GIMP Experience: New User
Hello,
I hope somebody can help me!
I am trying to find a hidden image/data in a PNG.
As far as I can tell using GIMP, the image is single layer sRGB with no alpha channel.
A Compress Or Die 'heat map' of the image clearly shows a 'spiral' of high density non repeating 'data' over a localised section of the image; how would I find out exactly what this is?
EXIF/metadata fields are empty except for the comments section where there are six characters '<<6&FF' - could this relate to colour palette information in some way?
Any comments or help would be most appreciated.
Thanks
Mon Nov 02, 2020 11:35 am
Are you able to upload the image?
Mon Nov 02, 2020 12:39 pm
Yes, of course I can.
But I would really like to try to 'solve' it myself first using GIMP as opposed to being given the answer by a super experienced GIMP user!
I can post a link to the image soon ...
Mon Nov 02, 2020 1:19 pm
It relates to RGBA color model, the FF in the end is the alpha channel.
Mon Nov 02, 2020 2:28 pm
Thank you.
I will experiment with RGBA and see what happens ...
Tue Nov 03, 2020 7:39 am
"<<" is the shift-left operator in C and other programming languages, so this could mean to shift 6 bits left and then keep the lower 8 bits (& FF). Shifting left is multiplying by 2⁶=64.
Tue Nov 03, 2020 7:54 am
Thank you.
Yes, I was thinking that maybe the '<<' indicated a bitwise left shift operator but if so (and please correct me if I am wrong), I'm not sure how to go from there to three 8-bit numbers for RGB and then to use GIMP to display just the colour represented by those numbers ...
Tue Nov 03, 2020 2:12 pm
Displaying all pixels sharing same color can be done from Menu: Select/By Color.
Drag the threshold slider to 0.0, and paint a small area with same color as your target color,
on which you will click with the color selection tool.
Searching specific colors in an image would be a cool plug-in. If it's already possible somehow I'd really like to know.
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