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Google Image Search for Mac (That can see PSDs)...Does something exist?

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May 29, 2022
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Hi everybody,

I work with massive ad builds that involve PSD, PNG, and JPG files. I work from an old set of images (PSD, etc) and ususally work within these files to template out other sizes.

Sometimes in the process a few of these files might get missed. It would be great to have something that says "Is there any imges that look like 'this image' in the folder?" That way if it looked like the old campaign, I'd see it and be able to edit it without searching/scanning through 20 folders.

I've downloaded a couple of apps and neither of themworked: PowerMyMac, Duplicate File Finder. They need to you drop in a folder, then do a poor job of finding duplicates. I dropped in a whole folder of one image and one program said there was no duplicates...?

Does anybody know of a native or software solution where I can seek an image within a certain folder and get results in finding the same image by 'image', not size or file type (similar to Google Image Search)?

Something like that in this age of digital production would be DIVINE.

Thanks for any suggestions, even with the programs I mentioned.

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Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Out of habit, I'm fairly meticulous about how I organize my image files. It saves a lot of time.

PS Elements 2022 Organizer has a visual similarity search. I don't use Elements, so I can't speak to how well it works.

https://helpx.adobe.com/elements-organizer/using/search-based-visual-uniqueness.html

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

MichelBParis

Legend

One thing the Elements visual search for visually similar duplicates does well is to group originals with their versions into stacks.

You have a folder including the original and versions which were not saved in 'version sets'.

The result is list of similar thumbnails you can stack or not. Even if the duplicates are edited or slightly cropped, they will be found.

Another situation in my genealogy is that I get different sources for the same photo of the same person. They are true 'visual duplicates' and the process makes stacking the similar photos easy and fast. You start with a selection based on the person identification, then you can choose the best quality for your top of each stack and flatten the stack to eliminate the other items.

Gotta DanceAuthor

Inspiring

Wow you guys, that is really cool. I'll have to check that out this weekend when I have some time. This 4-day week has been nuts.

Thank you all so much for introducing this to me.

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

At one point in time Adobe licensed third party visual image search for Photoshop Elements. I'm not sure if this is still the case. I believe that it was from:

https://tineye.com

Gotta DanceAuthor

Inspiring

I saw this but it looked for the most part a cloud query. I'll check it out in a search using Photoshop Elements. I'd use something like Bridge if it offered that feature but I didn't see anything online suggesting that.

jane-e

Community Expert

@Gotta Dance

A Google search for [mac search for duplicate photos] brought up a number of hits. You might try that. This is not a Photoshop question, so I'll move your post to The Lounge.

Jane

Gotta DanceAuthor

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No, this is Photoshop question. I'm asking about Desktop (Like Bridge), not web search.

[mac search for duplicate photos] - Mac Finder only does parmas on size type etc. It doesn't do a visual image search or comparison

Please move my post back.

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