Software to automatically rotate photos?

[imported_Stew]

Anyone use software to automatically rotate photos?

I'm dealing with hundreds of photos and it would save a great deal of time to not have to rotate them all individually.

Thanks!

Stew

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Windows XP, Select All, Right-click, Rotate?

- M4H

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Windows XP, Select All, Right-click, Rotate?

- M4H

 

[nweaver]

image magick plus script ftw...

I'm biased toward anything that's easily scriptable and/or offers Perl modules 😀

 

[imported_Stew]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Windows XP, Select All, Right-click, Rotate?

- M4H

Only certain photos need to be rotated.

The software needs to intelligently rotate the right photos.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: Stew

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Windows XP, Select All, Right-click, Rotate?

- M4H

Only certain photos need to be rotated.

The software needs to intelligently rotate the right photos.

That's what exif data is for. Most current image viewers will automatically and properly rotate the pictures based on that info.

Kinda like an ID3 tag in an mp3 file (which tells the software the artist, album, year, etc...), exif usually contains stuff like Camera make/model, shutter speed, ISO, aperture, flash, white balance and orientation

Are these scans or from a digital camera? Without the exif, I see no way for any software to be able to tell which way is "up", or which photos will need rotating.

 

[imported_Stew]

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2

Originally posted by: Stew

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Windows XP, Select All, Right-click, Rotate?

- M4H

Only certain photos need to be rotated.

The software needs to intelligently rotate the right photos.

That's what exif data is for. Most current image viewers will automatically and properly rotate the pictures based on that info.

Kinda like an ID3 tag in an mp3 file (which tells the software the artist, album, year, etc...), exif usually contains stuff like Camera make/model, shutter speed, ISO, aperture, flash, white balance and orientation

Are these scans or from a digital camera? Without the exif, I see no way for any software to be able to tell which way is "up", or which photos will need rotating.

They are digital camera images. I have a Canon A520 and I know that the camera stores the orientation data. I just need software that will read that data.

 

[Mark R]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Windows XP, Select All, Right-click, Rotate?

- M4H

That's fine if you don't mind having your images degraded, and the metadata in the image file destroyed.

Look at some of the software around, which uses lossless rotation techniques. I've used Downloader Pro to do this - it's really meant for downloading and automatically organising images as they're downloaded from cameras/flash cards - but you can get it to autorotate, by 'downloading' from one directory on your HD to another.

 

[corkyg]

Lossless Rotation

 

[nweaver]

Check cpan for a perl module to read the camera tags, as I'm sure that one already exists. Plus there are image magick modules, and you learn the duct tape of scripting languages 🙂

 

[shortylickens]

ACDSee.

 

[dighn]

irfanview allows batch operations on images. and it's free!