In the age of digital photography, moments captured on camera hold immense value. Unfortunately, these memories can sometimes become corrupted or damaged due to file errors, storage issues, or system crashes. This is where photo repairing software like today’s review, the Stellar Repair for Photo steps in, offering a reliable solution to restore your cherished images to their original quality.
As one of the available tools offered by Stellar, it is not to be confused with the Stellar Photo Recovery tool as that focuses on recovering deleted stuff rather than fixing so just to be clear.
Installation
Installation is as straightforward as other Stellar software – Download the .exe installer, run it, and click Next on every occasion (No worries, no ads and sketchy toolbars here), then Finish up to start using it.
The Program
Once you start the program, you will be thrown into action immediately as you can start adding files that you want to repair. Also props to Stellar for fitting multilingual support through this simple drop-down list.
So in order to fix something, we first need something broken right? So I got 3 image files here and I intentionally corrupted them through the use of NotePad++. How? By simply mashing jibberish and lots of spaces. Through this, the file basically becomes an “illegal” image file that doesn’t follow the standard image encoding practice.
Now, just click the Add Files button in the middle (Yes, no drag and drop here, I wish Stellar made it drag-and-droppable) and you can multi-select all the corrupted image files from the pop-up.
The repair process hugely depends on the size of your file so if you’re dealing with DLSR-produced RAW files in mega-high resolution it’s going to take some time. But in any case, all my samples are now fixed back to normal and you may save the repaired files once you purchased an activation key.
Conclusion
So yeah, the Stellar Repair for Photo software pretty much does what it says and is quite powerful among the plethora of photo repair software in terms of its ability to fix photos even if it was intentional.
However, it only gets 4 out of 5 for me because out of all the supported formats that make up the long list of “JPEG, MXPEG, TIFF, DNG, HEIC, ARW, CR2, CR3, CRW, ERF, MRW, NEF, NRW, ORF, PEF, RAF, SR2, RW2, & SRF” format, some of the most used extensions like PNG and WEBP are missing.
There you have it – that one specific pain point which could really make this a hit or miss so it really depends on your situation. If you’re trying to fix photos from your smartphone or camera then big chance the default format is going to be JPEG or RAW. But other than that, you’re out of luck.
As for the price for their service, you can start fixing photos from US$39.99 for a 1-year Standard license that offers corruption repair, image thumbnail extraction for the “unreachables”, as well as plugging multiple photos into it and running them in one go.
On the other hand, there’s the Professional package that bundles photo recovery function as well as the Premium tier supporting video formats in terms of the repairing aspect. So if need the additional cover feel free to pick those instead.
In short, this is a handy tool to have when your job deals with images and videos like photographers who just can’t afford to lose all those deliverables that just went haywire on their own. Also, be sure to check up on your gears so that the pesky corruptions won’t happen again.
Click the link below to find out more about Stellar Repair for Photo.
https://www.stellarinfo.com/photo-repair-software.php
