Hey guys, I'm new here so I thought I'd try posting a problem that has vexed me for some time. I run a website for my artwork and stuff, so keeping my pictures in working order is pretty important. Having said that, a friend of mine black-boxed a photo I could use in PhotoShop (it's not copyrighted, we all used to have the photo) and it's the only copy I have.

He saved it as a JPEG, which means, no layers ... is there any way to recover the data beneath that black box? I could use any help guys and gals, when I search for restoration on Google, it keeps popping up with software that's supposed to bring my junk out of the recycle bin lol ...

Thanks everyone.





-Hk-

Hello HurriKane, welcome to PCHF, sorry for the delay.

I'm afraid that would completely defeat the purpose of a JPEG, which is essentially a single layer compressed image, designed to be as small file size as possible. There is no further information you can retrieve from a JPEG than what you already see on the screen.

EDIT: Marked as Answered.

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