Abstract: To solve the image distortion of its carrier that occurs in high capacity reversible watermarking, a reversible watermarking algorithm was proposed to determine whether the pixel is embeddable or not by calculating the absolute difference of its neighboring pixels. In order that the image might be in a higher quality, and that the threshold should be an ideal one, the pixel should be unchanged in insetting if the absolute difference is higher than the threshold expected. Experimental results and performance comparisons showed that the proposed method has much better visual quality and higher capacity than the methods recently proposed.