%0 Journal Article %T Enhanced Visual Cryptography Using color Error diffusion and Digital Watermarking %A Tripta Deendayal %A Ch.Sunitha %J International Journal of Computer Technology and Applications %D 2012 %I Technopark Publications %X In this paper a new visual cryptography scheme is proposed for hiding information in images which divide secret images into multiple shares.In order to provide more security to existing schemes a new Technique called Digital Watermarking is used,and to improve the quality and size of images obtained color error diffusion technique is used .secret information can be retrieved by stacking any k number of decrypted shares. which reduces the color sets that renders the halftone image and chooses the color whose brightness variation is minimal %U http://ijcta.com/documents/volumes/vol3issue1/ijcta2012030147.pdf