Restore Cropped Image | How to Revert an Edited Photo to its Original State

Question: Can I uncrop a photo? How can I recover a cropped picture to its original state?

"Help! I shot some photos of my grandmother's 100th birthday on a micro SD card, and I tried editing them in Photoshop. I cropped and saved one of my favorites, but now I need to restore the cropped image to its original size for printing on a large canvas. Can a cropped photo be restored to its original state?"

We frequently hear of people losing their precious photos from their personal computers, digital cameras, and mobile phones due to various reasons like accidental deletion, automatic deletion by the SD card, corrupted pictures, or appearance of a blurry gray box over the images.

But in this article, we will discuss another type of photo loss issue, which mainly occurs due to unsatisfactory editing, especially cropping, followed by a 'Save' click on popular PC image editing apps like Photoshop or Paint. After wrongly handling and storing the original image, many users wonder how to restore edited photos to their original state. Don't worry. This guide will help you. Plus, if you deleted the original photo before editing its copy, you can use the powerful Data Recovery Wizard tool to retrieve the original picture.

How to recover the original image after cropping

When editing a photo in an image-editing program, you can rely on undo safety nets like Undo, Redo, and Revert to Saved commands.

• Use the "Undo" command from the "Edit" menu. As long as you saved your original image, you can undo any edits. This will revert the image to its previous state.
• Use the "Redo" command from the "Edit" menu. Redo will bring the image back to the state it was in before you chose "Undo."
• If your photo editing software has a History palette, use it to view recent changes. With the History tool, you can easily undo several edits at once.
• Use the "Revert to Saved" command to return the image to the way it looked when you last saved it. If your program does not have a "Revert to Saved" command, close the image without saving it, then reopen it. The image will revert to its last saved state.

Aside from the methods above, you can also use online tools to recover an original image from a modified picture. Search for "online photo uneditor" or something similar to find free services that can attempt to restore your original photo.

How to Revert an Edited Photo Back to Its Original State in Preview on a Mac

macOS's Preview app is more than just a PDF editor; it's also an excellent image editor. It lets you crop, resize, rotate, annotate, and optimize images.

But what if you crop a photo and save it, then quickly decide you want the original back?

To revert an edited photo to its original state, go to File > Revert To > Browse All Versions, and then select the original image version.

How to Recover Original Photos After Editing

If you only edited a copy of the image and not the original photo, you can use a powerful file recovery tool like Data Recovery Wizard Pro to restore the cropped image back to its original state. This utility allows you to recover deleted or lost photos from HDD, SSD, digital cameras, SD cards, USB flash drives, thumb drives, external hard drives, and more.

If you lose the original images on your computer or camera, this tool can recover them in three easy steps.

Step 1: Launch Disk Drill. Find your SD card, camera, or hard drive partition with the deleted or lost photos and click “Search for lost data”.

Step 2: After the scan, you can select "Picture" on the left to quickly filter out photos.

Step 3: Preview the pictures you want to recover. Then, click “Recover” and select another location to save the recovered data.

How to Revert an Edited Photo Back to Original on iPhone

If you accidentally edited an important photo, like by cropping or filtering it, but then changed your mind, don't worry. You can undo those edits on your iPhone to restore the photo to its original state.

1. Open the Photos app. Find the photo that you want to revert.

2. Tap “Edit” on the photo you want to recover in the top-right corner.

3. Since you've edited the image, you'll see the "Undo" option in the bottom-right corner of the screen. Tap it, then select "Revert to Original." It will warn you that "Revert to Original" will delete all edits made to the photo. This can't be undone. You can confirm and re-edit your picture later if you want.

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