Auto-rotating with Automator/Preview/iPhoto possible?

When I import photos with iPhoto or Image Capture, the images are not actually rotated. When viewed in iPhoto, they have the proper rotation.
But if I try to use Automator to create thumbnails, the thumbnails are not rotated. Is there a way around this? Currently my thumbnail creation is driven by a bash script that I wrote under Linux, but the Linux digital camera tools auto-rotated the actual files when importing, something that iPhoto/Image Capture don't seem to do.
This is the last issue I'm having with moving to OS X, and it is frustrating

Nevermind, it seems impossible to do. I have enhanced my bash thumbnail script to take care of autorotation with tools I pulled from fink (jhead, jpegtran, and others).

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I'm using iPhoto 6.0.5 (316) and when I started importing photos from my old Windows PC, all of my portrait shots were auto-rotated in the library which is awesome. But I just noticed that the last several rolls I've imported aren't doing that. All the images are from the same camera so I'm not quite sure what I did (if anything) to cause the difference. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The orientation tag is part of the image files EXIF data recorded by your camera when the picture is taken. If iPhoto sees the orientation tag it rotates the image for you.
Unfortunately, there are lots of things you can do to inadvertently strip an image file of the EXIF data. For example, early versions of iPhoto would export photos with most of the EXIF data removed, at least the makernotes portions.
Did you open or view the photos that didn't rotate in any software that you didn't use with the others? If so, that may be what happened.

Auto-rotate off? [Preview]

is there a way to make this the default setting instead of always having to uncheck this?
TIA!

I believe that auto rotate only shows up when printing from preview. Different applications present different options, so I guess that's why the menu defaults to the way it is. Last setting used may not always give this option if the last print menu was different, but it's the best I can suggest.
Either way, if you made a preset for preview, you would have to choose it. If the box comes back with auto rotate, you will have to uncheck. A click either way.
Would be nice if could remember last settings used in all different menus.
I just learned to live with it.
And, You're Welcome

Not all apps rotate with tablet. Is possible force the rotation for a confonable reading?

I have a Sony Tablet S. Is the best tablet ever. I choose this for the anatomic form of the case. Is very confortable read book, twitter, etc.
But, some apps don't change the orientation of tablet and I must turn the table and is not confortable.
Is possible force the rotation. For example with Moon + Reader (for read ebooks) (free) change the orientation.
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Hello Make,
You may contact the specific application manufacturer to check if they support rotation.

Auto rotation when editing in iPhoto

When I go from organize to editing mode in iPhoto the photos automatically turn anti clockwise through 90 degrees, I can't find any help which explains this problem, please help.
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Could it be, that your camera has a feature that rotates the picture that you have taken vertically?? It rotates them 90degres, so it can be viewed on you camera screen without rotating the camera?
I just bought a new camera and it does just that. Any pictures taken vertically are automatically rotated by the camera, so I can view them on the camera screen without tilting the camera 90 degre. And I noticed that on the card, there is an original and a copy which has been rotated (just like iPhot does when you rotate a pic). Maybe you imported the already rotated picture, but the preview (organize) mode contains the thumbs that was not rotated, hence the 90degre rotation between organize and editing mode!!!
just a wild guess
michel

Twist - Auto-rotate sticks in protrait

If I enable auto rotate with the twist in laptop confiiguration, and rotate it sideways, it will not return to either landscape orentation. You can flip portrait either way. putting it in tablet more sometimes fixes it, but sometimes the touchpad ends up 90 degrees off, and a powerdown is the only recovery.

I don't know if this will work for anyone else, but after I turned off auto-rotation by pressing Windows Key + o (the letter, not the number), I "manually" rotate the screen orientation by right-clicking on the desktop --> Graphic Options --> Rotation --> then choose from "Normal" (i.e., laptop); 90 Degrees; 180 Degrees; or 270 Degrees, and it seems to stick. (The Ctrl+Arrow key combination never worked for me.)
Turning off Auto-Rotation while in Laptop mode:
From the desktop, I just used Windows Key + o until the "Autorotate off" message appeared onscreen.
Alternatively, you can press Windows Key +x --> Control Panel --> Hardware and Sound --> Display --> Change Display Settings --> remove the checkmark from the "Allow the Screen to auto-rotate" box --> Click OK
To Right-Click the desktop "by touch" (e.g., you're already in Tent Mode and the orientation is wrong, and it's awkward to try to use the keyboard):
Press and hold your finger on the desktop and a square will appear. Remove your finger from the desktop and the right-click menu will appear, then touch Graphic Options --> Rotation --> then choose 180 Degrees.
Updated: Just realized that switching to Tent Mode doesn't turn auto-rotate back on, but if I collapse my screen down into Tablet Mode from Tent Mode, when the screen is about an inch from touching the keyboard, auto-rotate comes back on automatically. Still, if I press the auto-rotate button above the power button to turn auto-rotate off, when I "manually" adjust the rotation of the screen, it stays in place. But when I raise the lid again to go back into Laptop Mode, auto-rotation comes back on by itself.
I'd love to find out how to disable whatever turns on the auto-rotation function when the screen is in a certain position.

Nokia 610 auto rotate

Folks,
Noticed some discussions on auto rotate with 610 phone which cannot be switched on or off as needed.
This is most irritating at times, believe Nokia may be bringing out an upgrade which will enable users to turn the auto rotate on or off.
Anyone know when this upgrade will be coming out ?
Thanks for your help.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Thanks yasfer' for your help. Certainly disappointing as it is most annoying, like half way thru typing a text message and the screen flips around.
Will persevere for the moment, hope I don't have to go out and buy another phone.
Thanks again.

Canon, auto rotate, RAW with PhotoShop can not handle portrait!!!

I shot in RAW using Canon EOS Digi SLRs.
My Canon bodys have auto rotate, so if I shot a portrait image when it loads into iPhoto it turn it the right way up. This is fine. But I use PhotoShop CS3 (it does it with any PhotoShop version) if I drag an image from iPhoto that is in landscape mode and drop it onto the PhotoShop icon in the dock it moves the RAW file to PhotoShop fine and I can edit this in RAW.
If the image is in portrait, then when I drag it again to PhotoShop it send a JPG version and not the RAW.
To get round this I need to export any portrait images I want to process in RAW then load them into PhotoShop.
Not sure if it's a bug or a feature !!!! but it's been in iPhoto for a year or so.
Now I could try the "edit using...." as the external editor but I also use Aperture and GraphicConvertor so I just drag to the App I want to use.
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Ray,
I believe that what you see is normal. Perhaps I can explain why.
You turn your camera 90 degrees to take the vertical shot. Although your camera never shows you this, the shot is horizontal, with an added flag to display as rotated. When you import it into your library, iPhoto recognizes the original RAW photo and saves it in the Originals file. But iPhoto also recognizes the rotate flag, and it obeys. Since the core philosophy of iPhoto is to preserve an untouched original file, the rotated version gets created and saved into the Modified folder (as a jpeg, see below). There is no way to turn this off.
A note about RAW files. iPhoto will store the RAW file and even export it for you, but it can't display or directly edit the RAW data. So, the RAW file is tucked safely away in the Originals folder, and a jpeg version is created and stored in the Modified folder. In your case, this jpeg is also being rotated to portrait orientation. Again, there is no way to turn this off.
What you can do about the rotation dilemma is turn off the auto-rotate feature in your camera. Upload using Image Capture to a file on your desktop. Open the portrait photos in Photoshop and save (overwriting the original, unrotated image). Once saved, import the folder into your Library. This should give you the correctly oriented RAW in Originals, which will export when you drag it to Photoshop. Note: Preview will not work for rotating the file, because all it does is add the rotate flag, telling Preview to display the file with rotation. It will look okay, but when you export or upload to a website you will still see the original, unrotated file.
Regards.

IPhoto 09 loses date on auto-rotated photos

Try that: take an old photo in portrait mode (auto-rotated from a camera, mine is a Canon) from your iPhoto library, drag it to the desktop, and drag it back to iPhoto. The new photo imported has lost its original date, its date is now the importing date.
I don't think that is acceptable.
iPhoto 8 would lose lost of EXIF information when auto-rotating photos, but the date?!

Thanks for the suggestion.
I tried with the File/Export method: the results is strictly identical.
It seems to me that the problems resides in the import of "auto-rotate" photos. As the previous version of iPhoto, iPhoto 09 create a modified version of the photo, which loses all the EXIF information, including the date/time the photo was digitized.
iPhoto still displays the photo with the correct time, probably from the library or the Original file, but when it exports it, the only date remaining is the creation date, which is the import date.
Regards,
JT

Since IOS 6 update, malfunction with auto rotate and sounds

Hello. I'm wondering if others have experienced a problem since updating their IPads. Since the update, I've lost the dual functionality of auto-rotate and sounds. I can only have 1 of the functions operate as per norm. If I want sounds (for keyboard clicks/games/etc.) my screen will not auto orient. Vice versa for auto orientation. Normal rotation is only possible with NO SOUND for the previously mentioned apps. I've performed reboots, and also endeavoured to make the obvious corrections in the General Settings fields. When I uncheck "MUTE"...it automatically places a checkmark in the lock rotation field!!!
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Maybe this will help.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4085

How to reduce size of iPhoto library ? (after the usual auto-rotate issue)

Hi,
This is my first message here, even I am oftenly reading and searching these forums...
I found many topics about this issue of "auto-rotate settings on camera, that will increase the size of the library".
Thanks Terrence and also Toad, for replying millions of time, to the same question.
(I was actually surprise that you don't have a topic, with all info, and you would simply point the guys to that same topic..., instead of writing again and again..)
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=12294301#12294301
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=12405190#12405190
etc.. etc...
Summary:
I have started a new library, with the birth of my son, 7 months ago.
I was going to move it and realized : 15Gb, with 5Gb in the "modified" folder.
After looking around here, I found the reason.
And now, the auto-rotate is turned off on my cameras. (and I will try your Xee, to rotate before importing to iPhoto)
Now, my question:
What can I do, with my existing library?
Is there a way to reduce it? to get rid of all the rotated pictures? (could I delete the one in Original folder?
Only solution is to reimport all, in a new library ? (I can't imagine doing again all the events... even if it's only 7 months worth of pictures...)
Thanks for your info and suggestions.
Thierry.

I don't know of any software to remove that tag. If you did and imported the files they would be displayed in the landscape orientation which is not how they were taken. So if you wanted to view them correctly you'd have to rotate them from within iPhoto thus creating a modified version and be back from where you started.
Your best bet would be to go thru the photos using Quicklook to find those portrait oriented photos and use Xee to rotate before importing.
Or use a different DAM (digital asset management) application that can handle those types of files without creating modified versions. I use Expression Media which lets me rotate the files from inside the application without creating modified files.

With the latest iPhoto software is it possible to 'flip' an image or as some say do a 'mirror image' of the photo?

With the latest iPhoto software is it possible to 'flip' an image or as some say 'mirror image' a photo, meaning to change it from left to right to right to left, or vice-versa.
thanks

No - but with preview (included on your Mac) you can and you can set Preview as the external editor for iPhoto - so I guess you can with the latest or any version of iPhoto
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