Lake Denman

Rotate iPhone images with ImageMagick

A good tip to remember when taking a photo with an iPhone or recording a video is “home button to the right and the picture will be right!”.

It is so easy to forget that rule when caught up in the moment. I recently needed to figure out how to resize and rotate without the need to download gimp or some other GUI. I settled imagemagick.

convert -rotate 90 -resize 512x682 input.jpeg output.jpeg

The code snippet above takes the input.jpeg file and rotates it clockwise by 90 degrees and then resizes it to about a third of the original size. Finally, the image is saved as output.jpeg.

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