Duplicate Cleaner Pro 3.0.3

February 1st 2012  //   James

Duplicate Cleaner 3 Pro was released to the public last week. Thanks to everyone who downloaded it :) Lots of good feedback.

The download was recently updated to version 3.0.3, with some important fixes - please update if you haven't already.

Finding duplicate pictures

January 5th 2012  //   James

A new feature of Duplicate Cleaner 3 is 'Image Mode'. You can now find similar pictures, and remove unwanted copies.

The type of situations dealt with are:

• Resized: You've resized an image, and kept copies in different sizes.
• Rotated: A picture has been rotated.
• Flipped: A picture has been flipped or reversed.
• Similar: You have two pictures with slight differences (ie took two shots with the camera, or you've done some editing)
• Retouched: You've subtly altered brightness, contrast or colour on an image.

You can specify a percentage similarity when searching. It's worth experimenting with this till you get results you are happy with. Images are 'cached' during scans, so repeat searches (perhaps you've added a new folder to the search, or changed a setting) will be faster.

The new image preview tool really helps as well - this gives you a quick side-by-side comparison of pictures grouped by similarity.

Duplicate Cleaner 3.0

November 29th 2011  //  James

Well, like Christmas, Duplicate Cleaner 3.0 is almost upon us. This is the first release that is split in two - a Free version, and a premium 'Pro' version.

The new version has some very exciting new features. These include finding similar images/photos - including rotated, edited, flipped or resized. Other new features include a duplicate folder view, Zip archive scanning, custom scan profiles, audio data comparison, a new duplicate image browser, 'Don't scan against self' inputs, and much more. Will will try and look in more detail at these in future posts.