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Lining up multiple pictures in multiple directories (Windows 7)

Hi all,

I have many pictures from many years in my computer. The pictures are all located in a tree of folders under D:\AllOfMyPictures

Some of the pictures are "rotated" by 90 degrees (They were taken this way).
Some of the pictures are rotated to the clockwize , and some are rotated counter clockwize.

In Windows 7, I can rotate any picture (right click on the picture), but it takes too many hours to rotate all of the pictures.

I am looking for an automatic method. Does anybody know how ?

Maybe the following information will help :
In Windows 7, when I connect my comera and "pull the pictures out", I get a window with the following suggestion : "Do you want to align the pictures while pulling them out of the camera ?". Usually it works fine (And it is not very difficult to fix 2-3 pictures).

So here are questions :
1) which tool aligns the pictures ?
2) Can this tool work on "Folders" ?
3) How do I use this tool manualy ?

Thanks
zmau

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zmau

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Thanks,

I clicked Start > All Programs >

but there is no "Windows Live Photo Gallery" nor "Windows Photo Gallery".

Should I download it ?

zmau

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Hi!

I have downloaded the program.
It is now "working" on all of the 20,000 pictures. Let's see what happense....

Thanks
zmau

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You could just highlight all the images within one folder then while highlighted right click and rotate clockwise or counter clockwise.

That is also a good idea depending on the circumstances.

I believe Merete means using ctrl and left click on each of the sideways pictures, then when all the pictures have been chosen, right click and choose to rotate images.

You would just have to do it in 2 separate passes. First all photos that need to rotate clockwise, then a second pass for all photos that need to rotate counterclockwise.

zmau

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Thanks all,

I was hoping to get something wich is automatic......

There was no problem to mark all of the pictures and press "align", but the results were not clear, I am trying to find out what did it do.

Thanks
zmau

Merete

Thank you for update,
so now your checking if all rotated correctly?
Good Luck :)

zmau

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Hi!

It takes a lot of time to go over 20000 pictures. Excuse me....

Here are the results of the jury :
It looks good, but I am not sure how good (I did not make statistics).
Many pictures where rotated correctly. When the pictures are imported from the camera, I get better results (Maybe The driver of the camera rotates them better, because he "knows" the camera.
On the other hand I stil had a decent amount of pictures to rotate manually. Even this was easier than other options that I saw.

Conclusion :
There must be a better way, but this was very helpul.....

Thanks
zmau

zmau

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BTW, I could not highlight all pictures, because some needed clock rotation, some needed counterclock rotation, and most of the pictures did not require any rotation.....

I also had a backup. Thanks for the warning.

Thanks again
zmau

Merete

The camera would know which are rotated and which are not as it has a .dat index to note the images taken, something like that.
Yes I appreciate it would be a big effort doing it like that.
If you have a photo editor such as Photoshop or Paintshop pro which I have they incorporate this feature, so does Picasa, Ifranview and many others.
Probably a script is available somewhere but mainly used on browsers.
Personally I would not use to automate it as I see it there is no problem with the actual images just that they were taken on an angle.
If you could segregate them then it would be simpler.
Most automated image editors need to find a problem to set to then check all the images for that problem.
All the best.
Regards Merete