subject: Picture Deletion While Editing On Photoscape [print this page] Many of us love editing photos, trying to play around with the color, texture, contrast, brightness etc and there are plenty of softwares available for this purpose. But with softwares like PhotoShop and CorelDraw, one needs to be far more technical than say while using something like Picasa, or PhotoScape. The latter ones being more for beginners than for professionals. The user interface of PhotoScape is far simpler than PhotoShop although the purpose of the two is essentially the same.
On PhotoScape, one can simply edit pictures by resizing them, adding frames, balloons, cropping them, adding text, mosaic etc. All this fun of editing comes with a price. While you can do all this and more using PhotoScape, you need to ensure that you have a copy of the original picture. PhotoScape does not create a copy of the original picture. This means that you are editing and changing the original. So if you don't have a copy of it, and you save the changes, there is no way you can get back the original. It's worse when people without realizing this point go on to deleting the picture. Whether you do that by mistake or on purpose, don't worry, use a Picture recovery software and Recover deleted pictures.
Just imagine if after editing a picture using PhotoScape, say you add balloons to it, you just click save. Then for whatever reason you dislike the picture and decide to delete it. You then try to look for the original picture to try a new editing method, but the picture is nowhere to be found!!
Cause:
This is because PhotoScape, like some other softwares of its kind, is only a tool. This means that it basically accesses the folder in which the picture is and allows you to do whatever you want with the picture. So it basically edits the original picture itself, rather than creating a copy of it and then editing. So when you edited the picture, you replaced the original and the deleted the replaced one. Hence no traces of the picture.
Solution:
The solution to this problem is simpleget back the edited one and then re-edit it to make it like the original.
1.If you just deleted the picture, you should be able to find it in the Recycle Bin/Trash as may be the case.
2.If you pressed Shift+DEL then you will need a Picture recovery software for the purpose. The software will scan the hard drive and Recover deleted photos.
Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a software with a simple GUI, so even beginners can easily Recover deleted pictures on their own. It supports JPEG, GIF, RAW and a variety of other file types. The software not only recovers pictures but also audio and video files. One can download the trial version first and check the recoverable pictures and then buy the full version and actually recover them.
