Photoshop batch rotation?

[Heidi Maiers]

Michele,
You can quickly rotate an image, or whole folder full of images by creating an Action, and then applying that Action to an individual image, or Batch Automation.
To make an Action, from the Windows menu, select Show Actions to get the Actions Window. Click the create a new action button and then record a new action of going through the menu and selecting Image->Rotate Canvas->90 degrees. Once the action is saved, you can apply it to a keystroke, such as F2. From then on, it's a quick task to rotate one image at a time - simly click image, hit F2.
To do a batch of files, the new action will now appear in the Action selection list on the File->Automate->Batch menu. You can select an entire source folder and optional destination folder (if you don't want to alter the originals) to apply and save the selected action to all files contained in that source folder.
Hope that helps.

[Michele Rushworth]

Thanks, Heidi! I'll try it out.

[Molly Sherrick Phifer]

Hi Michele,

Another thing you can do is download the Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.0, which is free from adobe here . This software automatically recognizes and turns the photos as you upload them. When you subsequently save them, you'll have to turn them again, but while you view them it's quite handy to have a program that recognizes portrait orientation. Disclaimer: this works with my Nikon D50, and there may be something embedded within the image file that indicates camera orientation, because I do know that the camera detects that. Given that, it might not work for a camera that doesn't store/recognize that.