Category Archives: Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder

Find Similar Images on Computer or Network

Image Search
09

Jan

How to Search for Similar Images on Local Machines or Network

Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder is a tool that can find similar images by “looking” at the photo content. Unlike the standard duplicate file finders that look at the file data, this duplicate photo finder compares the actual image content and can identify similar photos even if they are stored in different file formats. Find similar photos on a hard drive, computer, external drive (USB, SSD, HDD), or an entire network. Continue reading

Find Duplicate RAW – Compare RAW and JPG Photos

Find Duplicate RAW
09

Jan

Find duplicate RAW Photos by comparing RAW to JPEG, DNG, TIFF, HEIC/HEIF, or any other image format. Compare and find duplicates in all common RAW digital camera image formats – Camera RAW – CRW, CR2, CR3, NEF, RAW, PEF, RAF, X3F, BAY, RF, SRF, MRW, DCR, SR2, DNF, ERF, MEF, ARW and many more. Our duplicate photo finder “LOOKS” at your photos in order to find similarities like a real human would do.

The new version provides also a Photo Search feature that will find similar images by a sample – Reverse Image Search. Download now and solve the issue of useless duplicate photos. Organize your RAW image libraries instantly. Continue reading

How To Compare Folders for Duplicates in Windows 11, 10, 8, 7

Compare folders for duplicates
31

Mar

Compare Two Or More Folders For Duplicates

Compare Two Or More Folders For Duplicates

Here you will find information on how to compare folders for duplicates. Undoubtedly, you can compare two or more folders for duplicates and set “Source” and “Target” for the comparison.

We provide tools to search for similar or duplicate images, similar or duplicate audio files, and similar and duplicate files of any type. We provide both free and commercial versions that are used by millions of users. Certainly, our duplicate finders are the leading clone removal applications on the market and provide multiple duplicate search options. Download the free Duplicate File Finder and save valuable disk space by removing useless repeating files. Continue reading

Find Similar PSD Files – Delete Duplicate Images in Adobe Photoshop

Free Web Gallery Builder
27

Feb

Find Similar PSD Files

Find Similar and Duplicate PSD Files

How to Find Similar PSD Files or Duplicate Photo Files

Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder will find similar PSD files and also compare them with any other image format. It provides support for over 40 popular image formats and also 300 RAW camera formats. This of course includes the popular *.psd file format. VSDIF “looks” at your photos in order to find similarities. This is not just a standard duplicate file finder. Continue reading

How to Organize Images?

18

Apr

How to Organize Digital Images and Photos

The issue behind organizing images

Nowadays most users have thousands of images and while organizing few hundred images may not be so difficult it is a headache to organize thousands or even hundreds of thousands photos. Luckily Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder (VSDIF) can help with this task. There is a free download available at the product’s web site so you can download and test the tool before placing an order. VSDIF is the best tool for finding duplicate photos.

Quick tutorial on how to organize images (for novice users)

Once you download and install the duplicate image finder all you need to do is to create a new project and add the folders to be scanned.

Duplicate Image Finder

Duplicate Image Finder

Click the New Project button to create a new project. A dialog box will pop-up automatically where you have to select the folder where the images are located. The selected folder will appear in the folders list panel on the right.  If you have photos in different locations just use the “Add Folder” (1) button to add more folders.

Some important notes for novice users:

  • Add only the folders with you own photo collectionsnot your entire drives.  If you add your entire drive all the images that are duplicates will be listed. This means that these results will include images also from applications and from the operating system. Some of those images are intentionally duplicated so deleting them may lead to malfunction in your applications or operating system.

Once the folders are added select the scan method.

Find the Exact Duplicate Images First

Before running a “Visual Compare” use the “100% Identical Files” mode. It is much faster and will list exact duplicates.This will help you to quickly get rid of the exact duplicate files and will reduce the amount of images that will be scanned using the slower “Visual Compare” method.

Find Similar Images

The default scan method is “Visual Compare” at 95%. Usually this should work best for you and we do not recommend lowering the value below 90% as it will lead to false positives. The levels below 90% can be used by advanced users for certain special types of scans.

Review Duplicate Image Results

Once the tool completes the scan it will list all similar or duplicate images and group them by similarity. Name, path, properties and similarity are listed for ever image in the duplicates grid. The groups are listed in alternating colors for better readability and the group number that the image belongs to is listed on the right.

Mark Duplicate Images for Deleting

Use the “Auto Check” panel in the bottom left corner to mark files automatically. By default it will mark files with smaller dimension and files size meaning that it will keep the images with the best quality. You can change these settings via the check-boxes and the advanced button in this section. Auto-Check will select all images in a group except ONE – the image that will be kept depends on the above settings.

Some important notes for novice users:

  • Always review the results before deleting or use the MOVE option and make a backup before deciding whether to delete the files permanently or not .

There are plenty of shortcuts in VSDIF that will make things easier while reviewing duplicates. You can use Space Bar for example in order to check/un-check an image. Take a look at the help file for complete list of shortcuts.

Delete Duplicate Images

You can delete duplicates manually or automatically. Using the “DEL” key you can delete the currently selected image.

Some important notes for novice users:

  • Use the delete functionality inside VSDIF to delete images. If you have scanned some folders and then later manually remove folders or images using Windows Explorer you will get “Not Found” message inside VSDIF for the missing items as they are no longer present at the location that was available during the scan process.

Once you have reviewed the results and marked the images that you want to remove you have several options. You can move the files to a backup folder before deciding whether to delete the permanently or not. The other option is to delete the file to Recycle Bin from where you can restore them if you have deleted something by mistake. The third options is to PERMANENTLY delete the files. You have to be 100% sure before using this option as there is no way of recovering the deleted files.

Final Words:

This is a very basic tutorial on how to get rid of duplicate photos and organize an image collection. You can find an Advanced Tutorial on How To Remove Duplicate Images here.

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