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I know right? For cropping/rotating I would often airdrop the image to my iPhone, crop and rotate there and airdrop it back to my mac. Sure, there's the Photos app that can do that just like on iPhone but it complicates the library management with importing and exporting.


As saagarjha mentioned, you can use Preview for that. Just open the image in Preview and you can crop, rotate and adjust color of an image. You can also export to different file format.

You can also rotate directly in the Finder. Right-click on an image, chose Quick Actions and then choose Rotate Left.


I know I can use Preview but it's very annoying. Everything is behind a menu and it is counterintuitive and slow.

The Finder rotate does only 90 degrees and doesn't do cropping.


I wouldn’t use Preview as a primary editor but a lot of edits are simple rotate from portrait to landscape, crop out the boring parts, or adjust the exposure and Preview is a quick way to do that for a few photos. If you need to do more in depth changes or for more images, I would use one of the photo editing apps. My own favorite is Affinity Photo.


Cropping isn't behind a menu, isn't counterintuitive, and isn't slow.

Select the part of the image you want to keep. Press Cmd K. Done.


What's intuitive about Cmd K? Because cropping kind of resemble K because in Uzbek cropping is "kesish" therefore K is the first letter of cropping?


Just open the image in Preview and you can crop, rotate and adjust color of an image

If you only need to rotate, you can rotate any image or video file right from the Finder by pressing Command-R. No need to even open a program.




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