Digital images, stored on any storage media, can be saved in different image file formats, such as, JPEG, Exif, TIFF, RAW, PNG, GIF, BMP, PPM, PGM, PBM, PNM, and more. These file formats are primarily used by professional photographers and can be easily edited in various programs like Adobe Photoshop, etc. Inaccessibility of these image file formats primarily occurs when the storage media becomes corrupt. The most common reasons for corruption/damage of any storage media are discussed below:

• File system damage
• Virus infection
• Unexpected digicam shutdown
• Pulling memory card during an ongoing read/write process
• Human errors

A valid backup acts as a boon and restores your data to overcome all the above situations. However, in absence of an updated backup, you will need to use advanced digital image recovery software.

Such image recovery software use high-end scanning methods to recover all all kinds of image file formats. These image recovery applications are built with highly graphical user-interface which makes them easy to understand without any former technical understanding. Such image recovery tools provide risk-free recovery of data and do not modify or overwrite original data.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery v3.5 is a power-packed digital image recovery tool to recover all kinds of lost, deleted, and formatted image file formats, such as, jpg, jpeg, tif, gif, riff, tiff, avi, png, bmp, mov, wav, midi, and quicktime. The powerful photo recovery utility recovers data from almost all storage media like memory cards, memory sticks, Zip drives, hard drives, and more. It is designed for for Mac (Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, 10.4 Tiger and 10.3.9 Panther) and (Windows Vista, 2003, XP, 2000 and NT) operating systems.