Magic Trackpad - Rotate Image

Question

I love my new magic trackpad! All the documented features work wonderfully except for one. I can't figure out how to get "rotate image" to work. I opened an image in iPhoto and in Preview, but the two-finger rotation movement does not rotate the image.
In what applications will this work? Do I have to buy Aperture or Adobe CS4? Or maybe a newer version of iPhoto? I have on older version of iPhoto, I think 6.0.6.
You'd think it would work in Preview though. Any tips are appreciated.
Message was edited by: Carole Mah

Answer 1

I've got it working now . . . The "rotate" option is just more sensitive than I was expecting: First, you've really gotta be careful with how you do the gesture, or else instead of rotating the image your mouse cursor just circles around the screen OR the iPhoto thinks you're doing a pinch-to-close/zoom gesture instead of a "rotate" (e.g., make sure your two fingers stay the same distance apart while you're doing the "rotate" movement). Second, there seems to be a delay between when you open the photo in iPhoto and when you can start spinning it, especially if it's a photo with a large file size; you've gotta give the photo a second to load up completely, then try the "rotate"; and you might get another delay if you try to rotate it clockwise after rotating it counter-clockwise, or vice-versa.
I also found that using iPhoto's "Full Screen" mode made it MUCH easier to use the "rotate" and pinch-to-zoom gestures -- in full-screen mode iPhoto seemed to have a much better idea of when I was trying to rotate vs. when I was trying to zoom in and out, and you can actually zoom way in on a photo via pinch-to-zoom instead of being capped at the images full size, etc.
Seems like the "rotate" gesture could use some more work to make it easier to use, but it's pretty cool once you get used to performing the gesture exactly right.