How to refresh image preview icons in Finder?

I often browse through my photos directly in Finder. Many of my photos have been rotated from landscape to portrait format using Preview, but the preview icons I see in my Finder window remain in landscape format. How do I refresh the icons to make them reflect the new, modified image?
Thanks.

Hi Saigon Cinnamon, and a warm welcome to the forums!
I'm not 100% positive, but I think the problem is that Preview & iPhoto only "tag" them as rotated & doesn't actually rotate them.
I think Finder in 10.5 or 10.6 understand & respects that tag, but not in Tiger.
I'd try really rotating one & re-saving it in say GraphicConverter...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/263

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