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After a week at the National Archives, I have thousands of archival images to rotate. It took me a while, but I've figured out how to do this and want to share since I couldn't find it in the forums.

Overall: create folder somewhere handy in the finder to be a temporary container to let Hazel work its magic. Make a rule using an Automator workflow. Voilà!

Steps:
1. Create a new folder/container in finder: I named mine "Rotate left."
2. a. Open Automator, create a new workflow. One of the preset ones is "rotate image." After dragging and dropping the "rotate image" script to blank canvas, choose menu to rotate left. (Other choices: right and 180.
b. Save Automator workflow to iCloud--give it an obvious name like "rotate left"
3. In Hazel, make a new rule for folder "Rotate left."

If [all] of the following conditions are met
[Kind] [is] [image]
Do the following to the matched file or folder:
[Run Automator workflow] [Rotate left workflow] Add +
[Move] to folder [whatever designated folder].

That's it; works like a dream after dealing with opening images in Preview, selecting all, rotating, saving new document, and, irritatingly saving the changes to each image. And then moving to designated folder.

I made similar containers for "rotate right" and "rotate 180."
I change the designated folder as needed--in my case, with each archival folder change.