Photo Rotation Issue...

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p1p3r


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So I take my pictures with my Canon SD700 (which is probably irrelevant) and upload them. Some thumbnails are sideways, etc.
If I open them in Viewer and then rotate and save them... they don't save that way. WHY NOT?!?!?!
If I open them in CS3, they automatically go upright o_0 So if I open them in CS3 and resave them as is, then the thumbnail fixes itself.
Guh, is there any easier way to do this?! It's driving me nuts.
 
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Check to see if your camera has an auto rotate feature. for both the thumbnail AND file as they are written separately. I shoot Canon as well and my DRebel's auto rotate does both, some cameras only rotate the file, some only rotate the thumbnail, hopefully yours does both at the same time.
 
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p1p3r said:
So I take my pictures with my Canon SD700 (which is probably irrelevant) and upload them. Some thumbnails are sideways, etc.
If I open them in Viewer and then rotate and save them... they don't save that way. WHY NOT?!?!?!
If I open them in CS3, they automatically go upright o_0 So if I open them in CS3 and resave them as is, then the thumbnail fixes itself.
Guh, is there any easier way to do this?! It's driving me nuts.
Click to expand...

That made me mad too. I don't know why it's like that. I just used a freeware program to rotate my pictures.
 
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I think it might be the "lossless" rotation bug:

Preview is "smart" and simply changes the orientation exif tag, so that nothing is actually altered on the image itself.

But not all apps bother checking the flag, so they'll appear to be unrotated.
You can force preview to perform a lossy rotation by editing or altering the quality, but it's usually easier to use a different app altogether.
 
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Btw, I think Adobe Photoshop CS3 automatically detects a sideways portfolio and rotates it appropriately. This was the weirdest thing yesterday. When I opened a couple of 'tall' snaps, it automatically showed them the proper way....
 

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