Retrieving Iphoto pics after emptying the trash

I was saving my Iphoto pics to a zip disk and when completed I accidentally emptied the photos icon into the trash and deleted the trash. Thus I lost some pictures I had not yet saved to disk. Is there a way to retreive them maybe by reinstalling the software or are they gone for good?

You must understand this difference.
You can keep all kinds of photos in the Pictures Folder. You can have all kinds of folders in that Pictures Folder.
But every picture you imported or dragged into the iPhoto window is stored in a very special folder - iPhoto Library folder in that Pictures Folder.
The Iphoto Library Folder is where everything you have done in iPhoto is stored -- it is the database. There is nothing stored in the application.
Now what you are saying makes no sense unless you moved the database - the iPhoto Library folder to another location - which is okay, as long as iPhoto knows where the database is.
Simple version
iPhoto stores everything you do in a database called the iPhoto Library folder which by default is placed in your Pictures Folder. You can also use this Pictures folder to store photos that are not in iPhoto
I guess they are gone for good and no way to retrieve them,
if you deleted the database - the iPhoto Library Folder - then what was in iPhoto is GONE. You will have to move on to "data recovery" software as mentioned in earlier posts.

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I find a photo in the Library that I will delete from an album:
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