From children to adults to older couples, everyone uses a smartphone these days. Snapping a photo with your smartphone is easier than before. Now you can record the priceless moments in your life just about anywhere you go. You can instantly share pictures of those beautiful events with your family, friends and loved ones as if they’re accompanying you.
But do you know, as your photo collection fills up with hundreds of thousands of photos accumulated over a few years, it becomes pretty much challenging to organize it? Duplicates can ruin an otherwise nice-looking photo collection. They can make it hard to find your precious memories when you want to cherish them. Worst of all, your photo collection builds up GBs of duplicates that eventually run you out of storage. You may be forced to delete some of the photos that you hold like a treasure.
So, what should you do? Are there any easy ways to declutter your photo collection? Are there any simple and straightforward steps to find duplicates even if they’re rotated, flipped or gray-scaled? Sit back and hold your breath as we unfold everything in front of you.
Is It Possible to Find Rotated, Flipped and Gray Scaled Duplicates? If So, How?
We often edit multiple photos to fix distortions and improve their quality. We rotate images, change their orientation or turn them into gray-scaled. These simple acts result in duplication if we save our edited file as another instance of the original file.
Thankfully, it’s very much possible to find duplicate images even if they are rotated (90°, 180° & 270°), flipped (horizontal or vertical) & gray-scaled. But you need specialized software that automates this task for you.
Use PictureEcho
PictureEcho is an industry-leading software popularly used to find and clean duplicate images.
PictureEcho is powered with algorithms that find duplicate instances of an image even if they are rotated, flipped or gray-scaled. Thanks to developers, although PictureEcho has plenty of file organization tools in one roof, they are precisely arranged not to confuse you. You will find it easy and straightforward to use, even if you’re not so tech-savvy.
Steps:
1.Download, install and open PictureEcho.
2. In the main interface, look for “Scan Mode”.
3. Set the “Scan Mode” to “Scan by image”.
4. You’ll have three options on the left-hand side of your screen- “Source Image”, “Target Path” and “Remove Path”.
5. Click on “Source Image”.
6. Select the original version of the image that you want to compare it with other edited instances.
7. Click on “Open”.
8. Now, click on “Target Path”.
9. Select the directory or drive to look up for rotated, flipped and gray-scaled versions. Click on “OK”.
10. Choose your desired Similarity Criteria. Move it to the left to lower and to the right to increase.
11. Click on “Start Search”.
12. Wait for a while. Once your scan is finished, a message will appear stating: “The first image in the results is the image you added as the source image“. Click on “OK”.
13. You’ll now be able to see the rotated, flipped and gray-scaled versions of your image.
14. Click on “Select Duplicates”, and choose a selection pattern to automatically select matching images. For example, Retain the highest resolution images in each group.
15. Click on “Select Action”, and choose whether to move your duplicates to another folder or delete them altogether.
Other Features
Here are some of the distinct features of PictureEcho:
- System Scan: The system scan option helps you identify and delete duplicate photos on your hard disk.
- Lightroom Classic and Lightroom CC: Use these options if you’ve Adobe Lightroom installed. Lightroom applications have their own separate image library. You can find duplicates in your Lightroom application using these options.
- Cloud Scan: Do you store your photos online? With your purchase of Picture Echo, you get free complimentary access to Cloud Duplicate Finder. Using the browser-based CDF application, you can find duplicate photos on Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and other cloud platforms.
- Image Organizer: If you’ve hundreds of thousands of photos, it may not be possible to remember every file name. Image organizer will help you create a simple directory structure in different date formats such as Year\Month\Day. Believe me, it’ll help you a lot to find a photo when you need it.
- Clean Empty Folders: Although empty folders don’t negatively impact your system performance, they can become a bit of pain while browsing through your picture library. You’ll find ordinary tasks taking more time than usual. PictureEcho can help you get rid of such empty folders and efficiently organize your folder structure.
