iPhoto is a digital photo organizer, management and manipulation application from Apple Inc. It was part of the iLife Suite in the Mac computers from 2002 to 2015. Though discontinued, many Mac users still separately download it from the Internet and run on their Mac. It continues to run smoothly on newer versions of Mac with no difficulties or technical glitches at all.
Why is iPhoto So Popular Even Today?
iPhoto has an uncluttered, clean user interface which is even easy to understand for non-tech savvy users. You can import photographs, edit, print, organize and share photos with ease with minimum effort.
The photo manipulation app has a basic set of editing features and creative tools that can enhance the quality of your photos, brighten them up, and add colors & lightning.
There are features to bulk import photos and automatically organize them into several categories based on the metadata. Moreover, it has an amazing feature to compare photo effects from one image to another.
As and when the metadata of your photos contains location information, iPhoto shows the appropriate location into the Map. Furthermore, you can even manually assign locations to your photos so that you can search any photo through the Finder that quickly pulls out this location’s metadata and shows photos that are relevant to it.
Unlike other photo organizers around, iPhoto has the ability to recognize faces with a powerful face recognition technology. You can organize your photos based on different factors such as faces, locations, and events.
iPhoto has a set of artistic effects to sharpen your image. They can make your photos look like hand-drawn pencil sketches, comic book covers, artworks and water-color paintings.
iPhoto makes it pretty simple to share photos with your friends and family. You may turn your photos in different layouts such as photo albums, printing cards, invitation cards, and export them to Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms at a single click.
iPhoto does not limit users with a single photo library. You can create as many photo libraries you want, for instance, home photos, tour photos and memorable moments in your workplace.
Every photo has some embedded information in it. This includes
- Technical Metadata: As the name suggests, this includes photo location, color spacing, camera details, photo resolution, shutter speed, and Dot Per Inch (DPI)
- Descriptive Metadata: This includes keywords, caption, and comments
- Licensing Metadata: This includes usage, restrictions, copyright information and owner’s details
This metadata is published into several formats including EXIF, DCMI, IPTC and PLUS.
iPhoto is a handy tool for cropping photos and changing dimensions. You can alter the Aspect Ratio, alter height, depth, length and even turn a horizontal image into a vertical one, and vice versa.
Finding Duplicate Photos in iPhoto
Sorcim’s duplicate finder software Clone Files Checker is built with powerful scan algorithms that can identify duplicate iPhoto images in seconds.
Clone Files Checker compares your iPhoto images by different criterias such as MD5 hash, pixel-to-pixel, bit-to-bit, and even more other criterias to find cropped, resized, altered and multi-shot photos.
Here’s the actual process:
Step # 1: Install The Application
Visit the Clone Files Checker official website here:
https://www.clonefileschecker.com/
Click the large Download for Mac button.
Run the downloaded cfc_mac.dmg file. As you might already be knowing about it, DMG is a mountable, compressed and encrypted file format that works as an installer in Mac, pretty similar to .EXE in Windows.
Step # 2: Choose What to Scan
Launch Clone Files Checker from the Dock.
Click on the Add button in the Select drive/ folder area on the left.
Select the folder that contains your iPhoto image library:
- iPhoto 11:
~/Pictures/iPhoto Library.photolibrary/Masters/
- iPhoto 10:
~/Pictures/iPhoto Library.photolibrary/Masters/
- iPhoto 9:
/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Masters/
- iPhoto 8:
/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Originals/
Remember, the actual location may vary depending on the version of iPhoto installed on your Mac, the number of libraries in it, and where you opted to store the iPhoto library files.
Step # 3: Choose A Scan Criteria (Optional)
CFC makes the entire task a lot easier by allowing you to narrow down the scan results.
For instance, if you have a large photo library consisting of tens of thousands of files, you may choose to scan only small and medium sized files. This can save a lot of your time.
Use the Ignore files smaller than and Ignore files larger than checkboxes and fill up the appropriate file range.
We strongly suggest you select the Custom option, and select the Images checkbox. Leave all other options unchecked.
Click on Start Search and the scan will initialize in no time.
Step # 4: Review Results
Once the scan finishes, you’ll be able to review the list of duplicates neatly arranged in different pairs (Groups).
CFC shows the preview of your images in a separate panel on the right. This is especially important so that you don’t have to manually open each image file.
Moreover, the number of duplicate files found, number of groups and the size of wasted space can also be found on the extreme bottom.
Use the Select Duplicates button and choose a selection criteria of your choice. For example: Retain newer files in each group.
Step # 5: Clean Them Up At Once
Last but not the least, click on Select Action, and choose whether to move all duplicates to the Trash or to an entirely new folder.
Moving duplicate iPhoto images to a separate folder helps you review files at a later point in time to avoid accidental deletion of your files.
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Raza Ali Kazmi works as an editor and technology content writer at Sorcim Technologies (Pvt) Ltd. He loves to pen down articles on a wide array of technology related topics and has also been diligently testing software solutions on Windows & Mac platforms. If you have any question about the content, you can message me or the company's support team.