Cell phone milestone, 2000 images
I’ve reached another milestone in my cell phone image postings. I have gone past 2000 images and have many more to go. One unfortunate side effect of my work-flow is that it generates duplicates. My solution to this was to export all the images to a thumb-drive and to then run a piece of software called Visipics. What this software does is find all the duplicates and provide the option of deleting the second copy. The reason for the thumb-drive relates to my not wanting to run the software on the original files until I fully understood the software. It did an amazing job as I ran it several times while adjusting settings, each time allowing the software to look deeper at the images for duplicates with minor variations. You do need to use some caution as if you use too lenient a setting it can pair images that are very similar but still unique. You can see the result of my cell phone image progress here. Cell zoom I still need to add a few more to create an even 2400 and to replace some with better images. The most difficult part will be locating any remaining duplicates as this is like a giant game of Memory, fortunately the cards are turned over.
