How to get deleted photos back?

First do not boot it or used it for any reason as your photos could then be overwritten.

Go to someone who know Macs well enough to have a file restore program for the Mac and have him restore them for you.

Assuming that you have not used the mac to the point that the disk space where they are on have been overwritten they should still be able to be recover.

If you haven't emptied the recycle bin since deleting them then they're probably still there somewhere. Could you have moved them to another folder accidentally?

You might want to do a search for them.

If they are really gone and you have TimeMachine turned on then you can get them back from TimeMachine. Otherwise you're going to need someone to recover them with some type of disk recovery software tool (you might be able to download something yourself, but any new files you create on the machine could potentially overwrite the old photo data on the disk (extremely unlikely, but possible)).

If they were stored only at an on line site, I don't see any hope.

It all depend on how important those photos are to her.

The safest way is to go to someone with the Mac that have a boot CD with a recoverably program on it.

My guess would be that would cost fifty dollars or so.

Try "kernel for macintosh" a powerful recovery tool for Mac systems

BillRM is correct.

When computers "delete" something, they don't waste the time to actually destroy the information. They simply mark the file as deleted and note that the space is free for use. The actual information is still there until the OS decides it needs the space. There are clever programs that can piece together this information reverse this process (marking the file as not deleted and the space as used).

You should find someone who knows how to do this for Macs. There probably is a local computer store near you that offers this service. Or, if you are technically inclined and have another computer, you can get information off the internet to do this yourself.

If these files are really important, you should stop using the computer. The more you use the computer, the sooner the OS will decide to reuse this space and overwrite it with some other file. Once this happens, the pictures will be almost impossible to recover.