LostLord's Magic Picture Maker.

Magic Picture Maker is a free program to make Magic Pictures.
This kind of magic pictures can only be seen using a browser (Internet Explorer is tested and works best with them) when you hold down the «Control Key» on your keyboard and hit the «Letter A Key» (Known as CTRL+A, which selects all text and pictures in the page), The hidden picture reveals.
Making such pictures is not so hard, but needs a little knowledge about Image Editing Software, such as «Jasc Paint Shop Pro» or «Adobe Photoshop»

If you do not know much about Image Editing Software or you wish to make Magic Pictures in a short time, Magic Picture Maker is the tool you need.
Using Magic Picture Maker (or MPM) is like a piece of cake. Just select two pictures, (One to hold the hidden Picture and the other one, the picture to be hidden.), then select the Opacity of background picture, Finally hit the «Go» button. That's it!

Magic Picture Maker 1.0 Installer
You can Download a Free copy of Magic Picture Maker 1.0 beta by clicking on the arrow below.

Magic Picture Maker 1.0 Beta (First public release)
Size: 344 KB
Windows XP, ME, 2000

Source code (Visual Basic 6)
If you are familiar with «Visual Basic 6», you can download the source code for Magic Picture Maker 1.0.
This package includes all source code, pictures, etc. used in making of MPM 1.0.

MPM 1.0 Source Code
Size: 197 KB
Windows + Microsoft Visual Basic 6

How to use MPM 1.0

MPM 1.0 is fairly easy to use, Just follow these easy steps:

Step 1: By Clicking on the Thumbnail Box or clicking the button beside the text box, you can select a picture which will be used as a background picture. This picture should be light enough.
Dark pictures can hide pictures, but when you use them as a background, the final picture can not be easily extinguished from the background.

Step 2: Same as above, you can select a picture to make it hidden. This picture should be darker than the background.

Step 3: Choose an opacity percent from 0% ~ 100%. The higher the opacity, the more background can be seen. This means, as you increase the Opacity, the Hidden picture is less visible.
The Opacity level of about 80% is often good for every image.

Step 4: Pressing the Go button, will produce the final image, which can be saved, or even previewed in Explorer or by Internal Hidden Preview System.

Press CRTL+A to see the hidden picture (Internet Explorer Only)

Here you can see a sample result of this program.
Just Hit CTRL+A to see the hidden pictures in the clouds.

More free samples can be found in our Magic Picture Gallery.

Art work submission:
If you have designed a nice artwork of this kind, and would like to share it with others, you can send it to «Magic@LostLord.com».
All artworks are gathered and displayed in our Magic Picture Gallery. (Only suitable works will be published! And be sure to compress it with a compression utility, such as Winrar, Winzip, ... before sending)