2005feb16. Here’s another exciting entry where I beg for some little chunklet of software. I have created an “action” in Photoshop that takes very large jpg files (as created by my digital camera) and adjusts the color, cleans them up a bit, resizes them to be web-friendly, and saves them in a subdirectory. Swell. What it doesn’t do is rotate the photos that have been shot in landscape mode. So I’ve created two actions. The second one tilts the photo and then does everything I mentioned before. I run both actions against the entire directory, then I have to delete the “wrong” photos out of the two subdirectories. A bit of manual labor, which is what I’m trying to get away from by automating the resizing. The EXIF format has a tag “orientation” (0x0112 – the values, naturally, are 1, 3, 6, 8 and 9) which indicates “the orientation of the camera relative to the scene.” Is there any way to read this tag within an action so it can determine which way to rotate the photo?
