Picture Recovery Software

The new Sony DSLR—A850, a full-on digital SLR, is a wonder of its own. Being very similar to the Sony DSLR—A900, but still being cheaper, this is the newest addition to most camera lovers wishlist!! The camera uses a CF (Compact Flash) and Memory Stick Pro Duo Card slots. Users have the freedom to experiment with all the various settings, adjust light, aperture, focus, shutter speed, etc.

Just imagine, you’ve just bought your new A850, you go ‘click-crazy’ suddenly one of your friends, jokingly snatched your camera, and pulls out the memory card. Later you turn on the camera and find that all the pictures you took are gone!!! The first shots on your new camera. All gone and you don’t even know how it happened!!!

The reason is simple—when a memory card is pulled out before it is completely written to, it causes incomplete writing of data and makes the pictures inaccessible. Sometimes the card may also get corrupt and causes all the pictures on it to get deleted.

This is a situation almost every digi-cam user faces. The solution is very simple. Instead of getting disheartened and upset, you should use a Picture recovery software. These are softwares that have been specially developed to scan the hard disk and Recover deleted pictures. You need to download it from the internet and install it on your system, then attach your memory card to the computer using the card reader. The software the allows you to search for all the missing/deleted photos and restore either all or just the ones you want.

The principal on which such recovery softwares work is very simple: when we erase anything from our computer/memory cards etc, they only get marked as deleted. The information still remains in the file systems on our computer. The softwares access this information and recover the lost data.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery Software is one such simple, easy-to-use software. Phoenix Photo Recovery has the capability to recover pictures from any kind memory card—CF cards, SD cards, Memory sticks etc. It also supports all kinds of file types (WAV, MP3, JPEG, TIFF, etc.) enabling you to successfully salvage all deleted pictures, videos, etc.

GIMP is a graphics editing software. Although not a very popular one, the GIMP was designed by GNU as an image editing and retouching software. With GIMP one can perform image workflow steps such as editing, cropping photos, combining multiple pictures, converting between various image formats, etc. One can also use it to create basic animated images in GIF format.

While editing pictures on our system, the computer uses a virtual memory to store the changes you make. When this gets full one often finds that the system hangs or slows down. Eventually your program will shut down and your computer may get locked up for some time. This would not have any dire consequence otherwise, except that some of your precious pictures would get deleted of the system (although it is generally on the changes which are not saved.). Such times would be ideal for you to turn to third party Picture recovery software.

Imagine if while editing your kids birthday pictures, your computer suddenly hangs, you wait for a while and once it starts working properly again, you realize that the program has closed. You get worried that your editing was not saved, and get ready to go through the whole process all over again. But to your complete confusion and dismay, the picture is gone.

Reason:

You may have noticed that sometimes the system unfreezes and the program continues to run like it did before. While at other times the program closes when the system unhangs.

In layman’s words, this is because the computer gets confused as to what to save and what not to save, the system then shuts the program to free up memory. This is when the program closes. When the computer isn’t confused, the program continues.

While most times the unsaved changes get deleted, sometimes the picture gets deleted because of the same confusion. The system does not understand whether or not to save that particular picture since it was being edited. So it just deletes it.

Solution:

The solution to the problem of freezing is to change the Tile Cache Size in the Preferences. This should be about 256MB. Sometimes by default or accidentally it gets set to the total RAM in you system. If this happens you are bound to face problems while using the software. It means that your entire RAM is being used by 1 program, which is not possible.

Since the freeze also caused your pictures to get corrupted, you should use a Picture recovery software and Recover deleted pictures. The software simply scans the system and recovers all the pictures stored in them—whether deleted or not.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery software is an example of such softwares. You can first download the trial version, use it to check which pictures are recoverable and then buy the full version to actually recover them. It has been developed by Stellar Information Systems Ltd. Since it supports a variety of file types and formats—GIF, JPEG, TIFF, WAV, AVI, etc., it can Recover deleted photos, audio and video files etc.