PhotoSweeper for Mac helps you get rid of the duplicate or near duplicate photos clogging up your hard drive and photo library.
Digital photography is a blessing and a curse. OK, it's more of a
blessing than curse. Freed from the cost of purchasing and developing
film, digital photographers can take multiple shots of the same scene in
an attempt to capture the perfect shot. Unless you dutifully manage
your photo library and cull the extra shots from each photo shoot, your
library quickly becomes difficult to navigate and your hard drive
cluttered.
PhotoSweeper for Mac identifies duplicate and similar photos and lets you dump the ones you don't need in the trash. The app costs $9.99 in the
Mac App Store.
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Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET)
PhotoSweeper works with iPhoto, Aperture, and Adobe Lightroom. You
can also drag and drop photos or folders from your desktop. The app
features a large browser for your photos, but it will do the comparison
work itself. To add photos to PhotoSweeper, use the Media Browser or Add
Photos button in the lower-left corner. Choose a folder or group of
photos and drag it to PhotoSweeper's browser. To the right of this large
browser space is panel to view the settings for your comparison method
or image info. In settings, you can choose to search only for duplicates
or a handful of methods to root out needlessly similar photos. At the
bottom of this right-hand panel is a slider to adjust the Matching
Level. Set it more toward Exact Match if you feel PhotoSweeper is being
too choosy.
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Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET)
When you have your photos in the browser and your settings just so,
click the Compare button at the bottom of the app, and PhotoSweeper will
begin comparing your selection. When it has finished, a pop-up window
will appear, asking if you'd like the app to mark your photos. Say yes
by clicking the Auto Mark button. You will then see your photos arranged
by groups, where all but one of the photos in each group is marked for
deletion. Double click on each photo in this view to toggle from marked
and unmarked. Using the two buttons at the top -- Group List and
Face-to-Face -- you can view your photos by group or view two
side-by-side for closer inspection.
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Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET)
When you are happy with the results, click the Show Marked button in
the lower-left corner. With all of your marked photos laid out in the
browser, you can use the buttons in the lower-left corner to move them
all to the trash, move and rename them, or copy and rename them. Photos
on your hard drive are sent to the system trash, and photos in iPhoto or
Aperture are moved to the app's trash. For Adobe Lightroom, trashed
photos are put in a collection named "Trash (PhotoSweeper)" and are
marked as Rejected.
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