Trashing photos either throws them into the computer’s trashcan or sends them to the photography application’s internal trash folder. In this section, you can delete images, move and rename them, copy and rename them, and unmark ones that you want to keep. However, I found that PhotoSweeper almost always marked the image that I would have tossed out myself.Īfter you’ve confirmed the marked photos and made sure you aren’t deleting anything you may want to keep, select “Show Marked” to see everything that has been marked. You can change the auto mark preferences with different rules and orders. You can set the app to auto mark images that should be considered duplicates and deleted. This is a time saver if you aren’t particular about exact compositions. If it is clear which photo you want to save, you can just leave the marked image, or manually mark the one you wish to delete. Group view shows you all like-images in one group. This is good for comparing images and picking your favorite, or changing which ones you want marked or not. Face-to-Face gives you a close up of only two pictures at a time.
When you are ready to view the results, select either Face-to-Face or Group view. The comparison feature can also take a very long time if you have a lot of photos, so be patient. Then, you can go back and reduce the matching algorithm to more comparison photos later. This will limit the comparison to a smaller number. If you have more than, say 25,000 photos, it might be a good idea to start the process by only searching for identical photos.
To find duplicates, select the “Compare” button in the toolbar. Adding photos can take as little as a few minutes or as much as a few hours, depending on how many you have. When you have added all images you wish to search for duplicates for, you can activate the comparison feature. Select the images you wish to compare and drag them to the app. You can also add pictures that are stored in you computer’s hard drive (or an external hard drive) by selecting the Add button from the toolbar. This will connect you to your photography application and load images that you can drag into the PhotoSweeper window. You can either add them from iPhoto, Aperture, or Adobe Lightroom by selecting the Media Browser icon in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen. The first thing you will need to do is add images. You can also adjust the algorithm for comparison and grouping, group photos by time intervals between capture dates, select a specific Bitmap size, and determine bitmap creation settings (RBG, blur, color sensitivity, etc.). If you select “Exact Matching,” it will locate multiple pictures that you took of a very exact moment. If you set “Partial Matching,” it will locate images that have similar subject matter. You can adjust the level at which PhotoSweeper will match duplicates. Then, select the pictures and drop them in the trash by selecting “Move to Trash” at the bottom of the screen. When you are ready, check out all marked photos by selecting “Show Marked” at the bottom of the screen to double check that you are ready to rid your computer of the extras.
Then, either manually or auto-mark images that you want to delete. You can then hit the Compare button at the bottom to find duplicates. Once added, the images will appear as thumbnails (large sized). You can also add photos directly from you computer by dragging and dropping them from a file on your hard drive. You could even drag and drop your entire iPhoto photo collection. You can drag individual images or entire files. When you first open the app, it will automatically detect and connect to your photography program. You can add files of pictures from iPhoto, Aperture, and Adobe Lightroom. All you can do is find photos that look the same and then delete, copy, or move them. You can’t do anything like that in PhotoSweeper. In fact, I found myself looking for the editing tools so that I could fix the lighting or contrast on images. PhotoSweeper has a very similar interface to iPhoto. PhotoSweeper is a file cleaner for OS X that will help you clear out duplicate images by finding similar compositions and letting you delete what you don’t want from the original location… Design
Many of them are duplicates of the same subject because I’m always trying to get just the right shot at the right moment. I do, however, have a lot of pictures stored on my computer and in iPhoto. I’m not even as much of an avid hobbyist as many others would consider themselves to be. If I’m not trying to get the perfect shot of a rock band with my Nikon, I’m snapping pics with my iPhone. I may have mentioned this before: I take a lot of pictures.
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