Databending with a Hex Editor

I’ll walk you through, step by step, on a basic Databend. For this, you’ll have to have a hex editor of some sorts. Since I’m using Ubuntu, my poison is “Bless Hex Editor”. If you’re a fellow Ubuntu user, and also interested in Databending, I recommend this program, as you are able to have multiple tabs open. A Windows equivalent would be something like Notepad++

So, let’s get that Hex editor open, and for this walk through, you can use just about any image, but I’ll supply you with one of my “Works in progress”.
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/714/whatthefucku.jpg

So, save that image and open it in your Editor of choice. As a bit of notice, most hex editors displays different characters, so if you are not opening it in the same editor I am, your outcome might be different.

In most editors, you can replace all characters with another. For this exercise, we’ll replace all “E”s with “F”s.

There are 557 E’s.

Save as any file name you’d like, and view it. Pretty nifty, right? You should have something like this:

http://i35.tinypic.com/2j0fou8.jpg

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