Sunday, September 26, 2010

Rotate pictures in Mac OS X

Apparently rotate picture was not deemed to be a default action... Fortunately there are 3 ways of Mac OS X to rotate your pictures:
First solution (Stupid)
  • Create a folder and associate the rotate action desire to it... When you drop images inside this folder they will be automatically converted and placed inside yet another folder!
Second solution(Too much work)
  • Open file in preview, rotate image and save.
Third (even more work but you only have to do it once)
  1. Create a service to rotate images:
  2. Open Automator
  3. Chose service
  4. Search for rotate image action and drag it to the action list.
  5. Automator will ask if you want to also add the action of create a copy. Sounds good, but I did not find the option to create copy in current folder, so I ditched the copy action
  6. Chose which side you want to rotate to: left, right or 180º.
  7. Save and you're done, now you will have rotate image in the services menu.
You can find the here Rotate Right and Rotate Left. Just extract the files into $HOME/Library/Services/ and the service will be available when you select an image.

Bonus: Resize images