Rotate image in bridge: What is expected behavior? Do I need to save or export to have the rotation

[kcroy2011]

Have large number of .tif scans, and need to manually rotate many of them. They are properly rotated in Bridge, but when I look into their folder via windows explorer - they have not changed.

Is there an additional step I need to take at this point?

[Stephen Marsh]

This indicates that the rotation Is applied as a metadata instruction, so yes, you're going to need to save the rotation into the pixel content. Hopefully these aren't JPEG files.

[kcroy2011]

So Bridge only applies the rotation as meta data?

Why would it matter if they are jpeg files?

[Stephen Marsh]

Because decompressing and recompressing in a lossy format such as JPEG leads to minor image degradation each time that it is performed. In practice this may not be noticeable, just stating best practice.

[kcroy2011]

Ok, thanks