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GIMP—GNU Image Manipulation Program

GIMP is a graphics editing software. Although not a very popular one, the GIMP was designed by GNU as an image editing and retouching software.

Author: Fun Anku

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With GIMP one can perform image workflow steps such as editing, cropping photos, combining multiple pictures, converting between various image formats, etc. One can also use it to create basic animated images in GIF format.

While editing pictures on our system, the computer uses a virtual memory to store the changes you make. When this gets full one often finds that the system hangs or slows down. Eventually your program will shut down and your computer may get locked up for some time. This would not have any dire consequence otherwise, except that some of your precious pictures would get deleted of the system (although it is generally on the changes which are not saved.). Such times would be ideal for you to turn to third party Picture recovery software.

Imagine if while editing your kids birthday pictures, your computer suddenly hangs, you wait for a while and once it starts working properly again, you realize that the program has closed. You get worried that your editing was not saved, and get ready to go through the whole process all over again. But to your complete confusion and dismay, the picture is gone.

Reason:

You may have noticed that sometimes the system unfreezes and the program continues to run like it did before. While at other times the program closes when the system unhangs.

In layman's words, this is because the computer gets confused as to what to save and what not to save, the system then shuts the program to free up memory. This is when the program closes. When the computer isn't confused, the program continues.

While most times the unsaved changes get deleted, sometimes the picture gets deleted because of the same confusion. The system does not understand whether or not to save that particular picture since it was being edited. So it just deletes it.

Solution:

The solution to the problem of freezing is to change the Tile Cache Size in the Preferences. This should be about 256MB. Sometimes by default or accidentally it gets set to the total RAM in you system. If this happens you are bound to face problems while using the software. It means that your entire RAM is being used by 1 program, which is not possible.

Since the freeze also caused your pictures to get corrupted, you should use a Picture recovery software and Recover deleted pictures. The software simply scans the system and recovers all the pictures stored in them—whether deleted or not.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery software is an example of such softwares. You can first download the trial version, use it to check which pictures are recoverable and then buy the full version to actually recover them. It has been developed by Stellar Information Systems Ltd. Since it supports a variety of file types and formats—GIF, JPEG, TIFF, WAV, AVI, etc., it can Recover deleted photos, audio and video files etc.

About Author

Fun Anku has 6 Years of Experience in the Software Technology researching with Stellar Information Systems Ltd that offers Deleted picture recovery software, Camera recovery software and Digital camera photo recovery software.

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