Your files may still be on your computer. Try searching for them ({START}, Search; Pictures, Music or Video; Pictures and Photes; Toss an asterick {*} in the file name text field}. This will scoure your entire mory looking for ALL files that are stored as any of the various image type files. I had the same problem you are having, with the same two programs. Eerie.
Thankfully, I was able to recover them.