Jim Choate's comments on steganography having problems with images that are too complex or too simple were interesting. Obviously, cartoon-like GIFs aren't a good target, though scanned real stuff may be fine. Weather maps cna be good - back when I worked with the things, I found you could really see about5-6 bits worth of depth, and after that it didn't usually look much different - we stole one or two values from the color-map to draw lines on the satellite images to add state boundaries, various data values, etc., but could have stolen the LSB and maybe 7th bit without major loss on cloud-image pictures. (Radar pictures, on the other hand, were almost all black, with one or two other pixel values, compressed to 2% of original size, and would have been useless for hiding anything in.) Bill