Open PhotoSweeper on your Mac and click the Media Browser button, then click the plus sign button, select your Photos Library.Get the app downloaded and installed on your Mac. Buy a copy of PhotoSweeper, currently $10, from either the AppStore or the PhotoSweeper website.
And a Video explaining how to use PhotoSweeper. Here is a detailed PhotoSweeper user manual. The directions below are using Apple’s Photos application, but PhotoSweeper works with iPhoto 9.x, Aperture 3.x, Adobe Lightroom 3.x and Capture One 8.x and newer.
Using this feature you can find photos taken a few seconds apart, or photos taken using the burst mode on your iPhone. In not only locates duplicate files, it finds very similar photos. PhotoSweeper locates all duplicate photos and allows you to review each photo side by side to decide which photo you want to keep or trash. It works with photos from Apple Photos, iPhoto, Aperture, PhaseOne Capture One and Adobe Lightroom libraries as well as photos from your hard drives and external storages.ĭo you have duplicate photos in your iPhoto or Photos Library that you want to get rid of, but dread the time it will take to go through each photo one by one? If so, PhotoSweeper is for you. $9.PhotoSweeper is a fast, precise & super efficient tool to eliminate similar or duplicate photos in any size photo collections.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. 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. If you've got a Mac and lots of photo organization to tackle, you need PhotoSweeper.