

There are two plugins that can help you with this task. How to find duplicate photos in Lightroom Classic with the Duplicate Finder pluginĪs we have seen, finding duplicate photos is slightly trickier than you might at first imagine. This selects all the photos in your Catalog. Go to the Catalog panel in the Library module and click on the All Photographs Collection. Use this method if you want to search for other instances of a specific photo (including Virtual Copies).ġ. It also doesn’t find duplicate photos that have different names.

The drawback of this method is that you can only search for one filename at a time. The only way you can find duplicate images in Lightroom Classic without a plugin is to open the Filter Bar and search for a photo by name. How to find duplicate photos in Lightroom Classic with the Filter Bar Now we’ve covered the basics, let’s see how you can find those duplicate photos. In that case you might have two identical photos, one called IMG_0001.CR2 and the other something like clientname_jobname_001.jpg. This gets even more complicated if you change the name of your file completely on output, something you might do if you’re preparing files for a client. There are several scenarios listed above where this can happen, and the end result is that you end up with two files, one called something like IMG_0001.CR2 and the other IMG_0001.jpg or IMG_0001.tiff. You may have several copies of the same photo with different file extensions or filenames.

Or if you use more two or more cameras that use the same naming system.Ģ. This happens if you don’t change the name of your photos when you import them, and your camera cycles back through its naming system. You may have photos in your Catalog that are different but share the same filename.

There are a couple of reasons that finding duplicate photos is more difficult than you might have thought.ġ. Why finding duplicate photos in Lightroom Classic isn’t easy You send a photo to Photoshop or a plugin, which results in a new version of the photo (normally in the TIFF format) being added to your Catalog. You’ve exported copies of a photo for a client or to upload to a website and added the copies to your Catalog.ĥ. You’ve merged one or more Catalogs that contain the same photos.ģ.
