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10.4: About Preview and rotated/mirrored images
Authored by: sdball on Dec 08, '05 06:45:56PM

Wow. I can't believe how many people have commented without mentioning automator. And in a 10.4 hint too! For shame!

Follow these steps for a onetime rotate:

Right click image
Automator
Create Workflow
Type "rotate" into the automator action search
Drag "Rotate Images" below the "Get Specified Finder Items" action on the right
(Add a copy image if you want, don't add if you don't want)
Pick a rotation
Click "Run"

To make this really easy (if you want to do it more than once)
Start with a completely blank automator script (no action boxes on the right)
Add "Get Selected Finder Items"
Add "Rotate Images"
File->Save As Plug-in
Name the plug-in appropriately (rotate, mirror, twist, whatever)

Now in the finder right click any image and choose your rotate plug-in from the automator menu. Easy as dragging the mouse!



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hello Preview bug above shows up in this
Authored by: qoo77 on Jul 02, '06 04:19:09AM

i wonder if u ever read the above



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update
Authored by: Moofisto on Oct 14, '06 04:31:02AM

Heh, probably not.

Anyway, even though PhotoToolCM (currently at 2.0) hasn't been updated for Tiger yet, I just losslessly flipped a JPEG file with 2.0 just fine while using OS X 10.4.8.

As mentioned above, GraphicConverter is a trustworthy tool for JPEG transformations like this.

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10.4: About Preview and rotated/mirrored images
Authored by: Skinny MC on Dec 13, '07 11:02:24PM

I think this is a great solution. The file size does change a bit but it's an easy fast way to rotate the file. Files wouldn't stay rotated when I saved in Preview but using the automator script the rotation stuck.



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