Many people often end up with several copies of the same photo on their computer, thus taking up unneeded space and slowing down the PC in the long run. PictureEcho is one of solutions you can turn to when you want to quickly find the duplicates on your PC.

The application's main window is user-friendly and intuitive so you can easily select one or several locations to be analyzed. This means you can choose folders, hard drive partitions or entire external storage drives to be thoroughly searched.

In order to make sure you find the duplicates you are interested in, you need to take the time to choose the extensions that should be processed (JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, BMP or ICO), along with the folders you want to exclude from the search.

Before getting the results, you need to set the app to look for Exact or Similar Matches - the former is the default setting for PictureEcho , whereas the latter depends on the configuration you set up. You can scan for photos taken within a timespan of 30 seconds, 1 minute or 60 minutes, while keeping in mind that the number of results drops as the timespan is greater.

Once PictureEcho displays the duplicate pics, you can compare them and review not only the images themselves, but also their metadata: size, extension, creation date, resolution and date taken.

Next, you have several options for deciding which of the images to retain: the smaller/ the bigger in each group, the low/high resolution picture in each group, the newest/oldest image in each group, or simply choose them based on location. The final step is to delete the dupes or move them to a different folder.

To wrap it up, you can rely on PictureEcho to detect and remove the duplicate images on your HDDs, removable drives or Adobe Lightroom.