News Bug Makes Windows 11 Snipping Tool Images Recoverable After Editing

[Admin]

Images cropped or edited using Windows 11's Snipping Tool or Windows 10's Snip & Sketch can be partially recovered thanks to a security flaw first discovered in Google Pixel's Markup.

Bug Makes Windows 11 Snipping Tool Images Recoverable After Editing : Read more

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Used Irfanview since the mid 90s for all my image editing needs. With the intro of the snipping tool it's easy enough to save the screenshot as a PNG (automatic on Windows 11 unless disabled), then edit and save as a JPEG in Irfanview.

 

[digitalgriffin]

This is due to something called "Layers" JPG has the same issue. It's been around for years.

You see, every time you resave a lossy image, it gets more and more "Lossy" To keep the original image and not lose quality, the file standard applies layers on top, so the original image does not have to recompressed. I believe PNG's do this also if a different way. This is what the snipping tool does.

Unfortunately 99.9% of the public don't know this. There are TWO ways to solve this problem:

1. Open photo shop, and select "Layers->Flatten" It will force all the layers into one, destroying the original image. You'll get a slight image quality loss
2. Copy paste into MS Paint. Save as a .BMP. (Forces layers to collapse) Reopen, and resave as a .JPG.

 

[DotNetMaster777]

Good work done by Security researchers ! ! ! !