How to rotate a thumbnail image in Finder?

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How to rotate a thumbnail image in Finder?

Is there a way to rotate a thumbnail image in Finder? When I click a photo in a Finder folder, the image automatically opens in Preview and the image is correctly displayed right side up. But the thumbnail image is displaying a vertical photo horizontally. Can I rotate the thumbnail?

Mac OS X (10.6.1), 21.5 inch iMac

Posted on Jan 1, 2010 9:26 PM

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Answer 1

red_menace

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Jan 1, 2010 10:34 PM in response to corelle

Preview just uses the raw image data when creating the icon, so any changes such as color or rotation are not shown. You would need to use an application that sets the icon to the current view - I use GraphicConverter.

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Answer 2

Frank F.

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Jan 10, 2010 7:09 PM in response to corelle

corelle,

please open the sidebar of the Preview window and check how the thumbnail is displayed there.

If the orientation is wrong in the Preview sidebar as well, then apparently some program rotated the image but not the EXIF preview image, which is obviously not a good thing.

If the orientation is correct in the Preview sidebar, but wrong in the Finder, then the file probably has a custom icon with wrong orientation. This should then be removed rather than rotated. It's useless anyhow because Snow Leopard's Finder can better use the EXIF preview image instead.

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