apple ROTATE COUNTERCLOCKWISE ONLY fetish?

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apple ROTATE COUNTERCLOCKWISE ONLY fetish?

guys,

what is this deal where when i want to rotate an image in PREVIEW or in PHOTOS app on OSX i have only an icon to ROTATE COUNTERCLOCKWISE? i saw this again in my PHOTOS app on my iphone.

in iPhone OS i have to go to EDIT > then some kind of edit something or other > then i have to click the ROTATE COUNTERCLOCKWISE button THREE TIMES to rotate clockwise?

is there some kind of OPTION KEY functionality that changes this to clockwise? or some ability to ask it to give me also pretty please the option to ROTATE CLOCKWISE?

doesn't anyone park a car? do these guys rotate around the block with THREE LEFT TURNS to get to a parking spot?

i can't figure out if i feel dumber working around this for fifteen years without asking about it or having to actually ask.

am i missing something?

does anyone understand that if i have to scan a 50 page document that i have hundreds of clickthroughs added to my workflow to get them rotated properly and then i have to SAVE EACH AND EVERY document when i want to save them instead of having a SAVE ALL function in Preview/

don't mean that to sound negative just trying to get a POINT across.

THANKS

Posted on Feb 4, 2020 11:46 AM

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Eau Rouge

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Feb 4, 2020 1:05 PM in response to hotwheels22

In macOS Preview

Press the option/alt key and the button will change to clockwise.

If you have several documents open in Preview you can Select All (Command- A)

and press the rotate button and all documents will rotate. If you want to do another multiple rotate

you need to Select All again.

If you want to save all images at once you will need to Select All and use the Export Selected Images.

Or simply press Command-Option-Q and that should save all your edits and quit Preview.

15 years, really.

Be brave and experiment.

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dialabrain

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Feb 4, 2020 12:56 PM in response to hotwheels22

hotwheels22 wrote:

i can't figure out if i feel dumber working around this for fifteen years without asking about it or having to actually ask.

am i missing something?

I don't know about High Sierra but in Catalina if you press the option key the icon changes to "Rotate Right".

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Eau Rouge

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Feb 4, 2020 3:09 PM in response to hotwheels22

You do realise you are not in a conversation with anyone at Apple.

I have already told you how to rotate multiple images with minimum effort.

It is also entirely possible that your scanning software can be set so that it does the rotation

for you on the fly. Look into that.

If you want to give Apple a piece of your mind, Feedback - macOS - Apple

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hotwheels22 Author

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Feb 4, 2020 6:22 PM in response to BDAqua

@bdaqua yeah. i mean at some point you don’t even realize what you are doing to work around this.

on iphone iOS this is apparently true to the maximalist position that even if hitting counterclockwise THREE times to accomplish a clockwise rotation the benefit of minimalist presentation outweighs the functionality...?

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hotwheels22 Author

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Feb 4, 2020 1:59 PM in response to Eau Rouge

ach. now i feel like a dope

but this is colossally dumb. why not just put two icons there to minimize the keystrokes? it’s like i can’t tell which one to click?

ALSO. why is counterclockwise privileged with the icon and clockwise has to act second fiddle? is this some kind of counterculture thing where counterclockwise has been historically underrepresented or something?

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Eau Rouge

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Feb 4, 2020 2:18 PM in response to hotwheels22

Two buttons would be seen as excessive, Apple goes by the mantra Less Is Less.

I have no idea about iOS, you could ask on one of their forums,

https://discussions.apple.com/community/iphone/using_iphone

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hotwheels22 Author

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Feb 4, 2020 3:01 PM in response to Eau Rouge

OK. but this is almost onion-like.

less what is less?

how about less carpal tunnel and reducing my keystrokes?

this is not an insignificant issue. if you have 100 (or even a thousand) images you are increasing the number of keystrokes you need to effectuate by 1 to 3 x 100 or x 1000.

this is 100 - 300 keystrokes on the low end and 1000 - 3000 on the high end.

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hotwheels22 Author

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Feb 4, 2020 6:17 PM in response to VikingOSX

whelp. no one needs it to do it autonomously.

but no one wants a flasher stalk that only flashes left unless you hold down a button on the dash to flash right so you can minimalize the dash presentation.

i mean on its face that is absurd.

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hotwheels22 Author

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Feb 4, 2020 6:20 PM in response to Eau Rouge

@eau rouge roger that. it’s just at some point it becomes minimalizarion ad absurdam.

i used to have a mini ipod player. the thing was perfection. but if they made me hold down a button to move forward a track or move back a track or volume up or volume down - while the other direction behaved normally everyone would think the designer was on acid.

at some point you almost have to vent about it unless you’re perfectly content acting like a monkey 24/7.

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Eau Rouge

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Feb 4, 2020 6:27 PM in response to hotwheels22

Well I have given you suggestions for lessening the amount of keyboard/ mouse presses that you need to make, there is not much more I can do and I certainly don't want to hear you venting ad infinitum.

This conversation is going nowhere.

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hotwheels22 Author

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Feb 4, 2020 7:12 PM in response to Eau Rouge

yeah. i appreciate the help. i’m just a little stuffed i have been having to do this for so long.

i phone requires three clicks to get to rotate and if i need to rotate one 90 degree clockwise it is three more clicks.

its just it’s 2020 and it’s hard to understand what is going on.

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hotwheels22 Author

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Feb 4, 2020 7:56 PM in response to dialabrain

well i did miss this about ctrl L or ctrl R. that would be a /huge/ help. THANK YOU!

but it does point out how silly it is to have one icon for counterclockwise.

i mean it is totally counterintuitive and really basically stupid.

i mean there is something wrong with a UI that only has a counterclockwise icon.

i appreciate the help (SERIOUSLY) but you’d have to agree it is a bit crazy i have to go to the iOS forum to see if there is in fact no solution to problem on the iPhone.

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