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Once I'd done that, I ran a compare based on Time+Bitmap. Before you hit the big 'compare' button at the bottom of the screen, double click each image you want to get rid of. PhotoSweeper made it really easy to dump this stuff. However, I soon found I must have synced my iPhone to the same library, as there was a myriad of screenshots, stuff I'd shot to send an explanation image to my wife… you know, modern life stuff. You load the images via the media browser button at the bottom left of the default window-a whole Aperture library, a project, whatever, just find it in the media browser and drag into the main window of PhotoSweeper. I decided to use a personal library of images which should have been of a trip to a wedding in Fiji (no, I wasn't the wedding photographer, but interestingly the happy couple put only my images on their Facebook page…). I have many Aperture libraries, because I shoot so much data and use multiple computers, and also need to share images with colleagues, so duplicate files are an occupational hazard.īut having been burnt badly by Aperture 1.0, I'm now naturally cautious and started out by testing PhotoSweeper on a duplicate library.

Once you've done you search, you can choose to send the matched images to the trash or move them to a folder of your choosing - I dumped everything off my low-capacity SSD to a back-up external drive. In a similar way, using the histogram option while searching avoids matching images which are duplicates in composition, close in time… but widely different in exposure, such as multiple images shot for high dynamic range. So you need to be careful – tweak the settings and PhotoSweeper got the comparisons right, narrowing the results considerably. If you shoot the same scene stopped down and wide open, the backgrounds will often look very different, but PhotoSweeper often considered them duplicates. Distinctively different images were marked as duplicates, probably because the capture time would have been the same down to the second and the bulk of the image – the only noticeable difference being the position of the ball – had PhotoSweeper marking them as dupes, when sometimes one was worthless and the other publishable. I also found some similar issues with bokeh. Using the default settings, I found sports images were often incorrectly marked. You can choose to remove different file formats via preferences, and sort the photo list and results. Talking of preferences, PhotoSweeper can not only compare photos, but videos, Quicktime files, flash files… lots of things. Using PhotoSweeper made life very easy.Ī batch of RAW+ JPEG images had PhotoSweeper finding each pair as a match, but this problem can be solved with a quick trip to preferences, where I selected “Photos of the same format only”.Īperture handles RAW+ JPEG pairs well – I'm not keen to delete them by accident – so I'll leave that setting on.

Deleting these via the finder is, well, a hassle. PhotoSweeper makes comparisons based on “An algorithm for comparison and grouping: Bitmap, Histogram, Time Interval, Time+Bitmap, Time+Histogram and Duplicates Only”.įor finding exact duplicates, PhotoSweeper searches for identical content, regardless of the file name (although there is a setting for this in preferences, forcing PhotoSweeper to find matched file names…) so it easily found and identified a folder of images which had been imported from a card twice, which results in a (1) being appended to the end of each file name. If you're a photographer and you want a quick and easy way to sort through and dispose of duplicate photos before beginning to edit, PhotoSweeper makes for a great companion for this as well.Photosweeper’s homepage shows a huge list of features and benefits Not only is it one of the best duplicate photo detection apps I've used, it's the best one you're going to find in this price range.

#PHOTOSWEEPER 3 MAC#

If you've got a Mac and lots of photo organization to tackle, you need PhotoSweeper.

#PHOTOSWEEPER 3 SOFTWARE#

The auto-mark feature actually works quite well and makes good choices, that doesn't happen very often with photo selection software.Marking a photo took me a minute to figure out as its in the bottom navigation, but once I got it, the rest of the interface made complete sense.Match detection tools are far more superior than many tools I've seen at this price level.Face-to-Face and Group List views make detecting and marking duplicates as time consuming or as time saving as you'd like.Interface makes sense and isn't overwhelming to non-photographers.

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