Digital File Gathering Methods: A Comparison
The method you use when gathering digital photos and videos from your clients Sources can have a significant impact on the outcome of your digital organizing project.
Expert-level digital organizing requires that all photos and videos are gathered from all your clients’ Sources while preserving folder structure.
This article compares four solutions and methods commonly used by Professional Photo Organizers and Photo Managers. It also includes a method using Duplicate Cleaner Pro 5, which can do so much more than help you remove duplicates.
Comparison: Searching for Identical Duplicates with PhotoSweeper and Duplicate Cleaner Pro
This article compares the Scan Settings or Scan Criteria for identifying Identical Duplicates and examines how the available settings/criteria affect which photos are displayed in scan results.
PhotoSweeper is the most feature-rich duplicate removal application for Mac. For PC users, Duplicate Cleaner Pro is the most powerful. While these two applications perform the same task, there are significant differences in how they work.
Although he biggest difference between the applications is how duplicates can be marked for removal, that topic will be covered in a future article.
Undated Photos Part 2: Identifying Undated Photos
How do you identify Undated photos in your clients’ digital photo and video collections? If you’ve read the article “Undated Photos Part 1 – The Unseen Menace”, you know there may be many more than you previously realized!
No professional photo organizer or photo manager should be delivering a digital collection to a client that includes Undated photos – unless they are identified as such and separated from the main collection.
This article and the corresponding video examine if and how one can identify Undated photos using: Directory Opus, Adobe Lightroom Classic, Adobe Bridge, Mylio, Finder, File Explorer, Apple Photos and Photo Mechanic.
Cisdem Duplicate Finder & Duplicate Cleaner Pro: A Comparison
It is challenging to compare Cisdem Duplicate Finder and Duplicate Cleaner Pro. Though they are used for the same purpose, they work very differently, have a very different user interfaces, and have very different options for Scan Criteria and for selecting duplicates to remove.
This article and the corresponding video are an overview only and do not cover all aspects of the applications. I will attempt to offer as fair and equal a comparison as is possible.
Why I Use Directory Opus Pro Part 1: Viewing Files and Their Metadatalests
Directory Opus Pro is a file management application for PC and is highly customizable. It is the application I rely on most when organizing digital photo and video collections, yet most professional photo organizers have never tried it.
The main reason I have chosen to use Directory Opus Pro for many digital photo and video organizing tasks is that I can access important metadata about the files I am organizing. Being able to access many different metadata fields is essential to an accurate and efficient workflow.