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Thomas E. Witte, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Cincinnati | OH | USA | Posted: 1:04 PM on 11.03.09 |
->> ... I know iView Media Pro did this, but I could have swore Photomechanic did too.
Isn't there an option in one of the menus to "find -> Similar" and have all the duplicate images in a folder align next to each other? I'm merging two slideshows with about 150 photos in each, and they both share some of the photos... Unfortunately file names I used to order them for their respective shows are different so they are scattered all over the place in the new folder view. Being able to align all the similar photos next to each other would obviously help speed up the edit, but iView is only on the tower back at the office - not on the laptop here at Panera. |
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Darron Silva, Photographer
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Granite Falls | NC | USA | Posted: 1:17 PM on 11.03.09 |
| ->> I don't think photomechanic has a find similar feature, but you can sort images many ways, some of which may accomplish want you want. You could sort the images by capture time, for instance, and that ought to get the similars together. |
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Kevin Seale, Photographer
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Crawfordsville | IN | United States | Posted: 1:21 PM on 11.03.09 |
| ->> I don't have an answer based on your specific question but if files are identical except for the names, you might try sorting them by file size which should put the same files next to each other in the results. It is not as clean a way as you requested but might help get close quickly. |
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Eric Canha, Photographer
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Brockton | MA | United States | Posted: 1:52 PM on 11.03.09 |
->> Thomas if the ONLY difference is the file names you can sort on the creation time and the dupes should line up side by side if only one body was used.
Additionally you can sort by creation time AND camera serial number and that ?SHOULD? group together all the dupes by camera too.
Likewise you could sort by {actuations} and {serialnum} and that would also put similar files side by side. |
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Thomas E. Witte, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Cincinnati | OH | USA | Posted: 2:43 PM on 11.03.09 |
->> Capture time did the trick with a caveat or two. A handful of them didn't pair up but I didn't go in and look as to why.
As an aside, the nice thing about iView's method is (was?) that you could have a full res version and a 400 px wide, compressed jpeg version and it would still pair them up based on image similarities. |
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