#PHOTOSWEEPER FOR PHOTOS PROFESSIONAL#
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#PHOTOSWEEPER FOR PHOTOS MAC#

#PHOTOSWEEPER FOR PHOTOS FREE#

GrandPerspective, the free disk space mapper I recommended last week, quickly shows just how out of control the photo libraries have become: my OS X Photos and Aperture libraries are the two huge blocks on the left, consuming 1/3 of all used space on the drive. I personally like to see disk information presented visually rather than mathematically. If you do the math relative to your hard drive’s size, you’ll understand how much photo libraries are weighing down your computer: they were consuming around 1/4 of my iMac’s 1TB of drive space. A window will pop up with a number, which in my Mac’s case was over 236GB between a number of different photo libraries - Apple’s Photo Booth, Aperture, iPhoto, and Photos, just to name a few. The simplest technique is to open a Finder window and right-click the Pictures folder under Favorites, choosing Get Info. If you’re not sure just how much space your photo collection is consuming on your Mac, there are two ways to figure it out. I’ve used both apps, as well as many others, and can help you choose the one that’s best for your needs… That’s an incredible amount of wasted space attributable to duplicates, so it’s no surprise that a $1 utility called Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro has recently become the #1 paid Mac App Store app, while a superior alternative called PhotoSweeper ($10) is in the top 50. After installing OS X 10.10.3, the new Photos app converted my 90GB Aperture library into a 126GB Photos library, and left both on my hard drive. Particularly after installing OS X 10.10.3 with Apple’s new Photos app, you might be surprised to learn that you’ve lost a lot of hard drive space, and that there are suddenly tons of duplicate photos on your Mac. Today’s How-To is focused on something very specific but with a lot of optimization potential: trimming down your Mac’s photo library. It will undoubtedly clean up your computer and make your life significantly easier.I’ve focused a lot over the last few months on helping readers to speed up and optimize Apple’s Macs - everything from adding RAM to recovering hard drive space and upgrading old hard drives to faster SSDs.

#PHOTOSWEEPER FOR PHOTOS PROFESSIONAL#

I recommend PhotoSweeper to anybody dealing with a lot of photos, whether professional or amateur. It is clean, simple, and a logical way of accomplishing tasks. What makes this application a real pleasure to use is the user interface. It’s functionality is spot on and has proven to be a really useful tool when dealing with a lot of photos. However, this is only a minor inconvenience. You would probably want to find similar photos even though they were shot a year apart. For example, let’s say you went on the same hike twice in one year. This can be confusing to new users because the results will only display photos that are similar and that were taken around the same time chronologically. The application is designed to only pick up on identical pictures shot around the same time. PhotoSweeper does have some aspects that can be confusing. A slider position somewhere in the middle gives you a middle ground between the two extremes. However, if you slide it all the way to the left, then PhotoSweeper will show you pictures that aren’t identical, but look very similar. If you slide it all the way to the right, then PhotoSweeper will only show you pictures that seem to be completely identical. This slider will adjust how picky the application will be when finding duplicates. One top-notch feature in PhotoSweeper is the slider that appears after your photos have been scanned. If you set up the correct rules, you can have PhotoSweeper autmatically put the worst photo of the pair in the box so you can easily delete it. This will allow you to set up rules for when PhotoSweeper sorts through duplicates. In addition, there is a a feature called auto-put. Once there, you have the ability to look and delete the duplications. Once your photos are scanned, they will be displayed either as individual pairs, or in one giant menu. If you drag an entire application, PhotoSweeper will scan all of the pictures that you have imported into those applications. You can also drag entire applications like iPhoto, Aperture, and Lightroom. The way you do this is by dragging and dropping an entire folder of photos or individual photos onto the program interface. You begin using PhotoSweeper by importing the photos you want scanned. However, the way the application finds duplicates might be frustrating for certain users. As a result, you end up with a lot of extra photos that you don’t need.

As any photographer knows, you must take an extememly large amount of photos in order to find the perfect one. This application can be incredibly useful for both professional and amateur photographers.

#PHOTOSWEEPER FOR PHOTOS MAC#

PhotoSweeper is a great application that will scan your Mac for any duplicate or similar-looking photos.

Photosweeper for photos