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.
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.
What Does it Take to Master Digital Photo Organizing?
This is the first article in a series about what it takes to master organizing digital photo and video collections.
Mastery requires knowledge, skill, experience, and the right applications. Only those who understand metadata and who use applications that enable them to do tasks accurately and thoroughly can become masters and deliver expertly organized collections to their clients.
Introducing the Megabyte Method
The Megabyte Method is a workflow for organizing digital photo and video collections.
It’s the result of many years of researching, experimenting, and testing different software and methods. Every aspect of the Megabyte Method has been developed to help professional photo organizers work smarter, not harder, and be more successful.
The Megabyte Method Demonstration Video Series will document the organization of a digital photo and video collection. The demo collection is about 70% of a real collection I organized for a client a few years ago.