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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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User profile for user: Eau Rouge
Eau Rouge
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Posted on Feb 4, 2020 1:05 PM

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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User profile for user: dialabrain
dialabrain
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Feb 4, 2020 6:46 PM in response to hotwheels22

I guess you also missed the fact for the last 15 years you could press ⌘L or ⌘R so you didn't have to move your mouse all the way over to the top right of Preview's tool bar and be "forced" to click on an icon to rotate an image. Or that you could flip an image horizontally or vertically from the "Tools" menu.


Maybe you could campaign for all cars to have a steering wheel on both sides so you aren't "forced" to drive from only one side.

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