Get rid of duplicate or photos

PhotoSweeper for Mac helps quickly and efficiently eliminate similar or duplicate photos.

It’s fully integrated with iPhoto, Aperture and Adobe Lightroom and does an impressive job of removing duplicated photos. It features a very slick interface and fits in very well with OS X. It also gives you greater peace of mind if you edit photos with applications, such PhotoShop, Pixelmator and are worried they may have merged with your current collection.

PhotoSweeper uses 6 different methods to find similar or duplicate photos, even those edited in external programs such Photoshop. PhotoSweeper is very fast at finding duplicates even with large collections. You can regroup results on-the-fly by changing a matching level of similarity. You can preview images, drag and drop them, display ratings, labels and much more.

Note that PhotoSweeper is generally extremely reliable at finding the right duplicates but it should be used with care and you should backup your collection in case it deletes photos that you want to keep.

Overall, PhotoSweeper is a very effective tool for finding duplicate photos.

+ Image Info panel: Click “Info” button to see advanced information about a selected photo, including preview, histogram and metadata (EXIF, IPTC, etc.).+ Movies: Add video files from your libraries or hard drives to find duplicate movies.+ Improved the compare methods, performance and memory usage.Features and enhancements in previous updates:+ Adobe Lightroom support: Drag and drop photos from the Media window to add photos from your Lightroom library.+ Aperture and iPhoto support: Drag and drop photos from the Media window to add photos from your Aperture or iPhoto library.+ PDF support: comparison of PDF documents by the first page.+ Auto Put rules: Set preferences to define which photos are put into the Box for the “Auto Put into Box” command.

Changes

• + Image Info panel: Click “Info” button to see advanced information about a selected photo, including preview, histogram and metadata (EXIF, IPTC, etc.).+ Movies: Add video files from your libraries or hard drives to find duplicate movies.+ Improved the compare methods, performance and memory usage.Features and enhancements in previous updates:+ Adobe Lightroom support: Drag and drop photos from the Media window to add photos from your Lightroom library.+ Aperture and iPhoto support: Drag and drop photos from the Media window to add photos from your Aperture or iPhoto library.+ PDF support: comparison of PDF documents by the first page.+ Auto Put rules: Set preferences to define which photos are put into the Box for the “Auto Put into Box” command.

Get rid of duplicate or similar photos quickly and efficiently.

PhotoSweeper helps quickly and efficiently eliminate similar or duplicate photos. It works with photos from iPhoto, Aperture and Adobe Lightroom libraries as well as photos from your hard drives and external storages.

PhotoSweeper will help you if:

• You take a series of shots of the same scene trying to get the perfect one.

• You edit photos with applications, such PhotoShop, Pixelmator etc., and make backups just in case.

• You have photos scattered on external hard drives and local disks, in iPhoto, Aperture or Lightroom libraries.

• You have a mess in your photo collection or just want to free disk space by removing junk photos.

Features

• Easy to find photos

Just drag and drop folders to allow PhotoSweeper to find all photos inside. Add more photos from your iPhoto, Aperture or Lightroom library via the multi-functional Media Browser window.

• Flexible comparison settings

Use 6 different methods to find similar or duplicate photos, even those edited in external programs such Photoshop, regardless of image size or format.

• Speed and quality

PhotoSweeper was developed to be extremely fast at comparing huge number of photos. Using cutting-edge technologies and algorithms makes searching duplicates incredibly fast and gives excellent comparison results.

• Efficiency

You can regroup the results by similarity without re-comparing photos, just by changing the matching level slider. Using caches allows you to make the next comparison much faster.

• Marking duplicates automatically

Mark photos you want to get rid of, or use the “Auto Mark” feature to mark duplicates automatically taking into account the list of rules which you can adjust to your needs in the Preferences.

• Comfortable viewing results

PhotoSweeper provides two modes for results: “Face-to-Face” – two large photos, “Groups” – all groups of duplicates in one list.

• Great photo browsing

In addition, you’ll get an up-to-date photo browser with such features as: a built-in search of photos by metadata, Quick Look preview, the “Info” panel with a detailed description of the photo, including histogram and image metadata (EXIF, IPTC etc.).

A comprehensive user manual and demo-version are available on our site: overmacs.com