The little utility that just won’t die has had a small update!
What’s New in Version 2.1.1
* Stability: fixed a crash that could occur
* UI Tweaks including a new Icon
* Ready for iOS 4.2
Photo Rotate simply lets you rotate photos. Sometimes, when holding your iPhone at a strange angle and taking a photo, the orientation of the photo is incorrect. This app lets you correct the rotation of the photo, so you can view it correctly, or upload it to a site such as facebook the correct way up.
The powerful Free rotation function allows arbitrary rotation, scaling and positioning with single and multi-touch gestures.
- Select the photo from your camera roll or photo library
- Rotate, mirror or manipulate the photo until it looks the way you want it to.
- Save the rotated photo. This will save to the “Camera Roll” (for devices with a camera) or “Saved Photos” (for devices without a camera) as a new photo.
Photo Rotate supports the following operations:
- Rotate 90 degrees Clockwise
- Rotate 90 degrees Anticlockwise
- Rotate 180 degrees
- Mirror horizontally
- Mirror vertically
- Free manipulation by manually positioning. rotating and scaling (zoom in or out) with finger gestures
- Works in both portrait or landscape orientation
This fixes two reported issues occurring in 2.0:
* Photo wasn’t visible after picking when device was lying flat face-down or face-up
* White flashing on iPad after picking
If you are seeing a black screen after picking a photo in Photo Rotate 2.0, hold the device vertically and the photo will reappear. This bug manifests when the device’s orientation is face-down or face-up. This is fixed in 2.01, which has now been submitted to the App Store. Apologies for any inconvenience.
Only two small, related changes to Photo Rotate:
* Works natively on the iPad (Universal App)
* Works in any orientation you hold your device
Over at Garibion.com is a post by Ryosuke Takeoka about his top five paid iPhone apps. Photo Rotate is number five. This gives me warm’n'fuzzy feelings. Thanks Ryosuke!
Photo Rotate 1.6 has been approved by Apple and is now in the App Store.
Version 1.6 contains the following changes from 1.5:
* Fixed a positioning offset bug in the Crop function.
* The crop area is now always clearly highlighted in a transparent blue for proper framing.
This application lets you rotate photos. Sometimes, when holding your iPhone at a strange angle and taking a photo, the orientation of the photo is incorrect. This app lets you correct the rotation of the photo, so you can view it correctly, or upload it to a site such as facebook the correct way up.
The powerful Crop function allows arbitrary rotation, scaling and positioning with single and multi-touch gestures.
1. Select the photo from your camera roll or photo library
2. Rotate, mirror or crop the photo until it looks the way you want it to.
3. Save the rotated photo. This will save to the “Camera Roll” (for iPhone) or “Saved Photos” (for iPod Touch) as a new photo.
Photo Rotate supports the following operations:
*Rotate 90 degrees Clockwise
*Rotate 90 degrees Anticlockwise
*Rotate 180 degrees
*Mirror horizontally
*Mirror vertically
*Crop by manually positioning and rotating with finger gestures
Its nearly been a full month since I submitted Photo Rotate 1.6 to Apple, but fear not, it has not been lost in the void. Last week I received a call from Apple and there was a small issue with some of the application’s iTunes App Store descriptive text that references limitations in the SDK which they wanted me to remove. I promptly did as they asked and now I suspect the update has been ‘released’ from purgatory back to the end of the approval queue.
In the meantime I have been working on Photo Rotate 1.7 focusing on memory usage and low memory handling, which at this rate might be submitted before 1.6 even gets cleared. We’ll see how it goes.
Photo Rotate 1.6 has been submitted to Apple for approval. This version has the following changes:
* Fixes positioning offset bug in the Crop function.
* The crop area is now always clearly highlighted in a transparent blue for proper framing.
Version 1.5 took two weeks to clear the approval process (previously versions only took about one week), Apple seems to be overloaded with updates at the moment, so I would expect a two week wait or so.
Photo Rotate 1.5 has finally been approved by Apple (after longer than normal delays, no doubt related to the OS 3.0 release today). It should be available from the AppStore anytime now.
* This adds a powerful “Crop” button – this lets you do arbitrary rotation, scaling and positioning using single and two finger gestures.
* Full OS 3.0 Support (but not required, works with OS 2.2.1).
Photo Rotate 1.5 has been submitted to Apple for approval. This adds a nifty Crop function, that lets you do arbitrary rotation, scaling and positioning using single and two finger gestures.. Its also iPhone OS 3.0 ready. Hopefully this will be approved within the next week.
In other Photo Rotate news, there’s a bit of competition in the simple iphone photo rotating category now, hence me making Photo Rotate the easiest and most powerful while still focusing on rotation.
To see how good Photo Rotate is, take a look at this review over at Tim Obrien Photos.
