Duplicate Annihilator

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If you operate anything like me, then it’s likely that you’ve got a massive amount of duplicate images tucked away in your photo library.  Through benign actions, technical ineptitude, or simple hoarding, it’s actually quite easy to amass a huge amount of unnecessary files in your image library.  While Aperture is superb at managing a library, it somehow lacks any internal method to identify and root out these doppelganger images.

My desire to nuke these duplicate images lead me to Duplicate Annihilator from Bratoo Software.  Finding no software reviews on the interwebs, I decided to take a plunge in and see if it could help my workflow.

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Aperture 3 – two months later

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It was borked on release, patched, patched again, and then again.  The interwebs currently show 11,900 pages mentioning “Aperture 3 problems”.  I became incredibly frustrated with the whole affair and considered jumping ship to Lightroom 3 beta in hopes of better stability.  It’s now two months later and time to examine the state of my Aperture3 exploration.

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Turning the other cheek on Aperture’s Faces

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At this point, I’ve lost track of how many hours I’ve spent trying to get the face recognition built into Aperture 3 to work.  I realized something today, that the software has not asked in days if it had correctly identified a person.  Sure, it went and found a bunch of faces and although I’ve now tagged thousands and thousands of pictures, it doesn’t seem to have any functionality to actually learn what those people look like.

Let me say without reservations that I fully regret investing time and money in this software.

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Aperture 3 – Adventures in Faces

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After a few days of struggling with Aperture 3, I’ve come to discover some more of the quirks in the program.  For me, one of the most vexing quriks is the general functionality of the “Faces” feature.

For those who haven’t tried out a demo or used iPhoto ’09 or Google’s Picasa, “Faces” is a facial recognition feature designed to find and identify all the people in your photographs.  The idea is that Ap3 will search your shots and find faces first, then ask you to identify the faces it has found.  After a face has been identified enough times, Ap3 will start to identify a given person in all your pictures and ask you for confirmation.

At least…that’s the way it’s supposed to work. 

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Aperture 3 patch 1 (updated)

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Just as I finished bitching about Aperture 3, Apple released an update yesterday.  First, I’ll post the published fixes and then my impressions:

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