This document discusses literature on lossless visible watermarking and lossless image recovery. It begins by introducing digital watermarking and classifying methods as visible or invisible. Reversible watermarking allows removal of embedded watermarks and restoration of the original content. The document then reviews existing watermarking techniques in the spatial, frequency and wavelet domains. It proposes a novel method for generic visible watermarking using deterministic one-to-one compound mappings that are reversible, allowing lossless recovery of original images from watermarked images. This approach can embed various visible watermarks of arbitrary sizes into images in a lossless manner.