Along with having good success rate, choose the one which is safe, free from virus, and does not harm your system applications. If the photos are inaccessible, distorted, grainy, blurred, choppy, pixelated, or showing errors while opening, the efficient way to repair them is through third-party photo repair software.
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Method 4: Use a third-party photo repair software Download or transfer the photos again properly from the source to access them. When the pictures are not downloaded or transferred properly due to a power cut or abrupt system shutdown it can lead to corruption or file errors. Method 3: Download/transfer the pictures again You can also open your picture in Windows MS Paint and use the ‘Save As’ option under ‘File’ to convert to other image formats such as JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG, etc. For instance, JPG or JPEG image files can be converted to PSD or vice versa, using any free online image converter tool. Use Windows MS Paint or any free online image converter tool to access photos that are not opening. Often the inaccessible pictures open correctly in different file formats. Method 2: Convert photos to another format If you have lost your photos due to deletion, corruption, formatting, virus infection, or bit rot, etc., restore from the backup that you may have created on the external drive, flash media or cloud storage, etc. Multiple backups are your best bet in such a situation. Managing a large number of photos and keeping them safe for a long time is difficult. Irrespective of the file formats of your photos – PNG, JPG, JPEG, HEIC, BMP, GIF, MxPEG, TIF, etc., the below methods can help you restore lost photos due to corruption. You can use this guide to fix photos shot from any camera, DSLR, mobile, GoPro, dashcam, or surveillance camera, etc.
This post addresses such complaints of photos getting corrupt or inaccessible due to any reason.