We are trying an experiment with a new rotation mechanism that is a lot faster than the current image-level rotation, by using direct manipulation of the JPEG blocks. There seem to be some problems with it, particularly around the edges of photos, so those of you who are tired of slow rotations can try it out and see what you think.

Visit this link to enable the fast rotation for the rest of your session. Then rotate some photos! For most photos it should be noticeably faster, but there may also be some quality problems. Feel free to post comments or complaints here.

One note: For rotations that take the photo back to the original, we still do a traditional mogrify based rotate.

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