Corrupt Photos - HELP

Katie22313

:cool:Hi I wonder if any of you can help me.

I recently recovered lots of old photos from a damaged disk usuing a recovery software I downloaded from the web. I have now managed to get these off the disk and onto my harddrive.

Whilst most of the photos are as clear as the day I took them there are a few which are "corrupt" as in saying unable to open image or an image comes up distort I.E the image in split in two or all grey or green.

Does anyone know how I can fix these. I have been told it is possible I just dont know how

thank you

Katie

droopsnoot

Unfortunately the answer is "it depends". Most image file formats store information like resolution, colour palette and other stuff in headers in the file before the actual image data, so for example the one with the bad colours probably has a corrupted palette. You'd need to be able to edit the actual binary data in the file to modify that palette and get the colours back to normal, but some graphics packages might do this.

When an image file is opened (or any file, for that matter) whichever application is opening the file will perform some basic checks to make sure that the information is "good", that it all makes sense and doesn't have, for example, numbers out of range or invalid. Some software will see a number out of range and automatically set it to the maximum supported value or some other sensible "guess", some will just say "corrupt" and refuse to open it. So again you'd need to edit the binary header information to get everything correct.

You could try opening the photos with different software, try a few different graphics packages and they might give different results. It sounds complicated, unfortunately, because it is.

forgotmyname

Only option is probably stitch the pictures together.

I had to do the same when a drive died some time back. Recover the files off the old drive i transferred them from.

But some were broken.

I would find the top half of the photo under one name and the bottom half under another. You could sometimes join them.

Lesson learnt. ALWAYS backup the photo's.