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07/08/2007 11:21:32 AM · #1 |
| For my birthday once my wife took a digital photograph that was of a "sensitive" nature. There are no copies anywhere else, especially hard copies. My three year old son managed to find it, open it in MS Paint and scribble all over it with a paintbrush. The subsequent uneasy conversation with him aside, the photograph was an intimate gift from the woman I love so it is very meaningful to me and I have since been trying to find a way to restore it. Because of it's nature I can't send it to a professional. Too much of it was altered to allow me to restore it using Photoshop. Realizing that Jpegs are notorious for storing "useless" data, I realized that perhaps there was a way to restore the actual picture through some other means. I have used programs such as Jpeg Recovery (Perhaps the most frustrating since the original picture appears in the small previewer but I cannot restore it otherwise.) and PixRecovery to attempt to find a solution to no avail. Is there any other way, no matter how scant of the possibility of success, to retrieve or restore the original photograph? Thank you for you time and comments in advance. |
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07/08/2007 12:22:18 PM · #2 |
| I take it the original card has been used many times since? |
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07/08/2007 12:28:32 PM · #3 |
| I doubt that you can recover it by working with the picture file itself. Your best bet is to use a data recovery program and try to recover cache files (or whatnot) from your hard disk. It's very likely that the overwrite that saved your son's changes did not physically destroy the previous version, but just created a new copy and updated the disk's index tables (or whatever). A good file recovery program can search out those file fragments that are likely still there on the disk. Good luck. |
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07/08/2007 12:29:00 PM · #4 |
Perhaps the most elegant solution would be for your wife to retake the picture?
R.
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