Recovering Lost Files or Photos

    Can you recover deleted images from the SD card? What about a computer or laptop? This method can work for recovering deleted files of any sort. Just make a selection that reflects what you are looking for in step 3.

    Well this depends on a variety of things. If you noticed that a file you wanted was missing after months of using your computer/laptop and are unsure WHEN the file got deleted.. chances of recovery are slim.

    When a file gets deleted there is a pretty good chance of being able to get it back. However, each time you save a file or save changes to files, installing and uninstalling programs that chance goes down. When you make changes like that you essentially are writing over the space that your file once occupied if that makes sense. Same with SD cards. If you took a bunch of photos and deleted them by accident (or your child went keyboard ninja and deleted them for you when you were transferring them to your hard drive) you still have a pretty good chance of recovering your files.

1. Download and install Recuva from here (you only need the free version): Click Here
2. When you open it, the program should open a wizard.
3. Click next in the wizard, then click on pictures.
4. Click on next again.

On the next screen choose the location you want to search for the files.
Click on next again and then it will look for the files.

SAVE the files found on an external drive, or flash drive. Unfortunately if it does not find anything it means the photos are gone. I have had edited photos deleted by my son and I was unable to recover them but Recuva recovered the UNEDITED photos for me. So it all boils down to how soon you noticed the problem.

IF that doesn't work and you want to take things a step further try this program recommended here:
https://code.google.com/p/sdcardrecovery2013/

Photoshop Ghosting Issue: Masks

       Ghosting is when one of two photos becomes semi-transparent when working on them in Photoshop. This can happen when working on a composite image and where masks are involved. The in camera ghosting is another issue. There could be a variety of reasons why this may occur and mostly they are from a mis-click. If you are not using a layer mask and have this issue then you will not find a solution here sorry. Here are some things to check to remedy the issue.

If you have something somewhat
similar to this then it is an easy fix.

Check that the blending mode is on normal. Also make sure you have the mask thumbnail selected when you are painting on your mask.

Check that Fill is at 100%.

Make sure that you have Opacity at 100%.

The most common problem is that your brush is not completely black! Simply click on the white/black squares to reset your foreground and background colors to black and white.








If none of these solutions worked try to follow the instructions here on restoring your default settings:
Fixing Photoshop Layer Mask Problems