Taking photos, sharing them, editing them and them uploading them for the world to see has for long been a practice among the younger generation of photographers. With the evolution of internet and a wide number of social networking websites, it has become more than a necessity for people to share not just special moments but almost very other moment by taking photos and sharing them. This has been made possible due to the ease of access to cameras at almost each person’s fingertip, either in the form of digital cameras or in the form of cameras that have been embedded into mobile phones.

Mobile phones coming with cameras has been a recent development that has been widely accepted among mobile phone users and has gone on to become one of the most innovative ideas of turning a phone into a photo capture device. However, the fact that mobile phones could be embedded with high resolution lenses which were as good as the ones used in digital cameras and the fact that they contained more than just photos i.e. applications, messages etc, meant that photos needed to be transferred often from the memory card onto another storage device, usually the hard drive of a computer. Photo loss was bound to occur due to this frequent transfer of photos and hence a good photo recovery tool was essential to recover lost photos from the memory card.

As the demand was high for such recovery utilities, data recovery experts came up with customized photo recovery software for Mac and Windows to suit the needs of both Windows and Mac users. These became highly popular, as photo recovery was possible even in the worst photo loss scenario.