preview rotating photos

big_moe

whenever i rotate a photo in Preview, it rotates it in finder so when i re-open it in Preview it is the right way round. but when i email or upload to bebo etc, the pic is the wrong way round.

its like preview only marks it as rotated and rotates it when it comes to display it, not actually rotating the photo. pain in the hole having to open photoshop just to rotate a bleedin photo.

anybody know how to do it "properly" with Preview or any SIMPLE (ie, opens up QUICKLY) app that does it??


cheers
moe

Gordon

Have you been rotating it and saving it?

big_moe

i assumed it was saved as when i reopen it (after rotating) it is the right way round. it only shows itself as NOT rotated when i upload or email.


ok, i have now rotated and saved a photo and same story. preview only rotates the photos for finder. so in theory, the photo is still the same.... BUT it rotates it when i open it.


anyway... i've found a nice program called CocoViewX that seems to do the trick properly. download here if anybody's interested



moe

eurotrotter

ya had the exact same problem moe, wat a dose it is
il try that download
sound for that

huggs2

"just looking" viewer is way better than preview and displays images beautifully. very easy to use too.
http://chipmunkninja.com/article/justlooking2

Sad Professor

This was a "feature" introduced in 10.4 afaik. Previously the rotated image would be saved to the file but it tended to cause image degradation or something. Where as now Preview just remembers the rotation without modifying the file. The problem is most other programs aren't compatible with this. I remember reading an Apple support doc on it.

A simple solution to the problem using Preview is to rotate the image and save as a PNG (so there's no quality loss). Then re-save the PNG file as JPEG if necessary. Works perfectly.

big_moe

Sad Professor wrote:

A simple solution to the problem using Preview is to rotate the image and save as a PNG (so there's no quality loss). Then re-save the PNG file as JPEG if necessary. Works perfectly.

cheers. but hassle. i find that other program is grand, one click rotate, one click save as jpeg. done and dusted in a minute.


cheers
moe

sailorfoley

Could it be accomplished with automater and applescript? Then add the script to the automater context menu in finder and that way all you ever have to do is click the file?

big_moe

maybe... but it would probably need two separate scripts. one to rotate clockwise and one counter-clockwise