User Guide

Rotating an image
You can rotate one or more incorrectly positioned images from the Browser at the
same time. Also, you can rotate an image from the Viewer.
To rotate an image:
1. Do one of the following:
• In the Browser, select one or more images, and click Tools |
Rotate.
• In the Viewer, click Tools | Rotate.
2. In the Image Rotate/Flip dialog box, click one of the following rotation
buttons:
• 90-degrees counterclockwise
• 180-degrees counterclockwise
• 90-degrees clockwise
• Auto Rotate
3. If you have selected more than one image and want to apply the opera-
tion to all the images, select the Apply to all selected images check
box.
4. If you have selected a multiple page image and want to apply the opera-
tion to all the pages, select the Apply to all pages of the current
image check box.
5. Click the Options button, and select or change the Image Rotate/Flip
options.
6. Click OK.
The Auto Rotate option automatically corrects the orientation of images
taken with digital cameras. The camera adds an orientation tag to the
image’s metadata. ACDSee reads that tag and adjusts the image
accordingly.
Image Rotate/Flip options
Force lossless Select the Force lossless JPEG operation check box
JPEG operations to rotate JPEG images without decompressing and
recompressing the JPEG information (lossless rotation).
Therefore, the image does not lose quality when rotated.
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You can enhance
images easily with
tools such as
Red-eye reduction,
crop, sharpen,
colorize, sepia, and
emboss. See
Chapter 15 for more
information.