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Rotating Digital Pictures on a Mac?!?!
Ok…maybe someone can help me out. Whenever I have a sideways digital picture that I need to rotate upright, I can’t get it to rotate and save on my Mac. I can double-click it, rotate it, save it and it looks right whenever I click on it on the desktop, but when I drag it to a folder or import it into Final Cut Pro, it’s still shows up as sideways. I end up having to transfer the picture over to my Windows machine and do the same thing(double-click it and rotate it), BUT it saves upright and then when I transfer it back to my Mac, it’s upright there too. Am I missing something or what?!? I know there has to be a way to do it all on a Mac, but I just can’t figure it out. I know I can rotate it upright in Final Cut Pro, but it is much easier to do a few clicks before it goes into FCP than to do it there. Thanks in advance for any info!
Chip
Chip McAfee Productions
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6 Replies
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I rotate images in Photoshop all time.
After I save them, they stay the “corrected” way in FCP or anywhere.
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If you are using iPhoto, I don’t believe the changes you make are applied to the original image. In other words, you need to view the image in iPhoto in order to view the changes. There are other programs that work this way as well. Try Photoshop instead.
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I know it can be done in Photoshop or FCP, I just thought there might be a quicker and easier way to do it like you can on a Windows machine. Just double-click it, hit rotate and then it stays like that. I am by no means a Windows fan, but I do like being able to do that. Sometimes I get CDs with 40 or 50 scanned pics and many of them are upside down or sideways and I was just looking for the quickest way to get them upright. Thanks for replying though!
Chip
Chip McAfee Productions
Texarkana, AR/TX -
Open it in Preview, rotate it there and save it. Done.
pvw
Phil Van West
Terra Nova Productions LLC
Denver, CO
Video Production/Post-ProductionG5 DP 2.5GHz / 4.5 GB RAM / OS 10.4.8 / FCP 5.1.2 / QT 7.1.3
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No, it doesn’t work. That’s my reason for the post. It looks like it is upright in Preview, but when you import it into another application(FCP, iMovie, iDVD,etc…) it still is sideways. I was hoping there was a setting in Preview that would save it everywhere and I was just missing it. Try it on your machine and see if it is different, but it doesn’t work that way on mine.
Chip
Chip McAfee Productions
Texarkana, AR/TX -
Rotate in FCP then. Do a paste attributes to all of the rotated ones and you’ve done it all in one fell swoop.
Kevin Monahan
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