Need assistance restoring faded images?
Need assistance restoring faded images?
I made a serious mistake... really so. I lost some RAW shots on my laptop by accident. Worse, I deleted them again from the recycle bin too. Luckily I managed to get them back, but they won’t open properly—they show up as corrupted files. It’s a .CR2 type file. I don’t have any paid recovery tools and can’t find any free open-source options. These images were from a crucial photoshoot; this was my first paid shoot as a photographer. I can’t afford another one.
Photorec is a widely used free utility for restoring lost files. Restore data to another storage device while minimizing changes to the original drive, especially if it was your primary operating system drive. It doesn’t require downloading or installing anything unless you’re using your own operating system drive. You mentioned you don’t have the photos on a memory card anymore?