One program that can handle a wide range of raw formats and which is well up to the task of handling large image collections is Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder from MindGems ( NOTE: this program is currently available for Windows computers only). However, when you throw a folder of raw files at these programs, most of them flounder – they either don’t support raw formats or they don’t support a wide enough range of raw images to be of much use. There are a number of good quality, free programs that can help you find and delete duplicate photos if those images are in jpeg and tif formats. This is where some good software can make a big difference – the problem is finding that software. While it’s easy enough to clean up a few duplicate images, if you have a lot of duplicates spread across multiple folders, the problem can be overwhelming. You might have imported a set of photos twice, accidentally duplicated a folder of photos, or you might have totally lost control of your photo collection to the extent that you now have multiple copies of your images and you don’t know where to begin finding, and cleaning them up. If you’re like me, from time to time you’ve encountered the problem of duplicate photos.

I usually write about tips for Photoshop and Lightroom, but today I’m going to cover more of a workflow solution, solving the problem of duplicate photos on your computer or hard drives.

Finding duplicate photos on pc