JPEG/JPG is the acronym for Joint Photographic Experts Group. This image file format compresses the images and reduces their size up to 5% of their original size, and thus makes the images apt for websites, emails, and image editing tools. Moreover, most of the digital cameras and other image capturing devices click images in JPEG format.

 

 

Apart from high usability of a JPEG image file, many times users encounter situations in which, their JPEG image gets corrupt. Generally a corrupt JPEG image either exhibits an error message when you try to open it or it appears as distorted. Image distortions like missing colors on some parts of a JPEG image and missing half part of image files having JPEG extension are some commonly seen issues with a corrupt JPEG file.

 

 

Reasons that are responsible for such behavior of JPEG image file or causes due to which, a JPEG image gets corrupt are:

 

 

 

• Photo recovery tools that users use to recover their lost or deleted photos sometimes corrupt some recovered images.
  
• Virus infected storage media is another cause due to which, an image file having JPEG/JPG file extension gets corrupt.
  
• Sometimes incomplete or improper transfer of JPEG images from one storage media to another (such as from memory card to your computer) corrupts a JPG image.
  
• Switching the camera off while the photo is being written over the card corrupts that photo.
  
• Presence of bad sectors on your hard drive can corrupt the images saved at that area.
  

 

 

However, you can try below mentioned ways to troubleshoot the corruption of JPEG image file:

 

 

 

• Rename your JPEG image file: Give a different name to your corrupt JPEG image file by right clicking the damaged JPEG image and selecting ‘Rename’, however do not change the file extension of this file. Try to open this file after renaming it with the same file extension.
  
• Open JPEG with some other application: If you are trying to open your image file with Microsoft Picture Manage or Adobe PhotoShop then try to open it with some other application. You can do it by going to ‘Open With’ option that comes to you by right clicking on the corrupt image. Upon clicking ‘Open With’ option that you see on the drop down that comes after right clicking the corrupt image, you will get different applications installed on your computer and try to open this file with an application other than your default application.
  
• Use professional JPEG repair software: If above mentioned resolutions are unable to solve your problem then use of an efficient JPEG repair software can do the needful. Reliable JPEG repair software fixes JPEG corruption without modifying the original data of that image. Some JPEG repair tools recover the image files from the memory cards, which are inaccessible completely. Some tools facilitate you to extract the ‘Thumbnails’ of your image files as well and show the preview of all repairable images before saving.
  

 

 

Therefore, an effective JPEG repair tool is the best way to fix JPEG corruption and repair JPEG image files.

 

Have you tried any JPEG Repair Software? Please share your experiences in comment box. I have tried 'Stellar Phoenix JPEG Repair' Software to repair my corrupt JPEG files.