We all hate losing our precious data but loss of photographs is even more depressing and its difficult to recover from the pain of losing them. The reason behind this is that each Photo portrays an emotion or situation that cannot be recaptured. Therefore photo recovery software is really a helpful tool in recovering your lost photos. Since there are number of photo recovery softwares available in the market, you have to choose the right one for yourself. You can easily have the list of photo recovery softwares available by just typing photo recovery in Google. You need to go through the given information and select a software than can efficiently recover photos without damaging your data. 

Operating Systems: Now there are different versions of photo recovery software available like for Mac OS there is separate software specifically for mac photo recovery, similarly for Windows there is separate photo recovery software.

Storage Devices: Yup your digital camera can be used in association with host of storage devices. So you have to make sure that the software you choose can recover photos from different types of storage devices like USB hard drives, IDE/SATA/ATA hard drives, SD cards, CF cards, Memory Sticks and external zip drives. 

File Extensions: As per the operating system and camera used the digital images are stored with different extensions. Do check that the software can recover photos from your Mac OS or Windows OS with file extensions such as TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PSP, PCT and in case if you shoot in RAW formats then the file extensions will vary depending upon the camera and OS. For Mac OS it will be CR2, CRW(Canon), ARW, SR2(Sony), NEF(Nikon), MRW(Minolta) and many more.

Mainly photo loss occurs when you delete a file, format your system or any of the other storage device. Incorrect methods to remove USB drive can also result in photo loss situation. So it is you, who have to select a software that truly recovers lost photos from any of these photo loss circumstances.