Images are undoubtedly the most efficacious and easiest means of communicating an idea. They are surely an indispensable part of human life .The trend of sharing images of various kinds for example typical technical figures, modern exceptional masterpiece from an artist, photos from the recent picnic to hill station etc, on the internet is spreading like a viral. There is a mandatory requirement for checking the privacy and security of our personal digital images before making them public via the internet. There is always a threat of our original images being illegally reproduced or distributed elsewhere. To prevent the misuse and protect the copyrights, an efficient solution has been given that can withstand many attacks. This paper aims at encoding of the host image prior to watermark embedding for enhancing the security. The fast and effective full counter propagation neural network helps in the successful watermark embedding without deteriorating the image perception. Earlier techniques embedded the watermark in the image itself but is has been observed that synapses of neural network provide a better platform for reducing the distortion and increasing the message capacity.