Google's Picasa2 is a fast and easy freeware editor that will do what you want, and it will do it losslessly. There are no changes to the original file, all the edits are stored in the containing folder as a configuration settings file, and are applied to the pictures only when viewing and printing with Picasa2. If you want to view or print with a different editor you'll need to save a copy in which the edits are implemented. When you export to a web page the changes are implemented in the newly written files.
What takes a little getting used to is Picasa2's chronologically structured folder directory. I use Irfanview when I want to view folders of pictures in a classic tree structure. You find Picasa2 by following links on Google's home page. regards, Anthony Farr > -----Original Message----- > From: David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 5 August 2005 7:39 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Work Flow Question > > Here's my problem: > For my business (read hobby) I process 1500-2000 jpgs from one day into > web galleries and most of the images need to be rotated. Before I > switched to CS2 I used Photoshop's file browser to "rotate" the images > so when the galleries were made the images are rotate but the originals > remain unchanged. But when I switched to CS2 adobe bridge runs at a > snails pace making my former work flow unbearably slow. > > Does anyone know of a different image browser that works like adobe's > that just marks images to be rotated rather than rotating them and > resaving them? The only solutions I've come up with is creating 2 > copies of the same images, rotating one set, making the gallery, then > deleting the rotated images (this runs just as slow if not slower than > waiting for Bridge). > > Thanks in advance, > David
