Richard Ashbery wrote on 30 Jan : > In article <6ff6749d51.Peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Peter Russell > <peter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> In article <Marcel-1.53-0129114403-f7fpErr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, >> CJE Sales <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> On Sat 29 Jan, Richard Ashbery wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Rotating a mass of camera jpegs in PD takes a very long time so >>>>> I perform this task in Variations which is reasonably quick and >>>>> as far as I am aware is lossless. Importing them into PD gives >>>>> horizontal banding making further processing impossible. >>>>> >>>>> Does this still happen in PD? >>>> This is being worked on by the author. The horizontal stripes >>>> are a function of how the operating system deals with JPEGS of >>>> this type, so the author is having to work around this. We have >>>> a beta version here which overcomes it but at the expense of >>>> very slow loading, so this needs further work. >> I have been using !PrivateEye to do my rotations, but I don't know >> idf this is lossless? > As far as I am aware PrivateEye rotates jpegs with minimum data loss. > There must be some degradation because every time a jpeg is > decompressed, processed and then recompressed some of the data will be > lost. Can anyone else clarify? > Have you tried Variations Peter - it is very useful if you need to > rotate many jpegs from a digital camera where the image is taken in > portrait mode - the program detects the Exif data containing the > camera orientation and indicates which way to rotate the image by a > little blue arrow. Bear in mind that when the images are loaded they > all appear correctly orientated. Adjust-clicking on subsequent images > (blue highlight) and then clicking the correct Rotate icon will rotate > all of them. > What a pity we don't have any software (as on the PC) that can perform > rotation automatically. OHP is the only package that does > auto-rotation of images but you are unable to save them - however the > software wasn't designed to do this. Thanks Richard. I have tried this and it is wonderful. I have previously been using !Thump to get my thumbnails when browsing my photo folders. Of course this doesn't offer all the goodies Variations does. And I can still drag photos into Photodesk. Many thanks for the tip off. Peter -- Peter M Russell Adelaide, South Australia - www.pipalya.com/russell Using RISCOS on Iyonix - immune to all M$ viruses