| I'm having trouble with auto rotation. I check all my photos in microsoft picture manager and they are oriented O.K | 1gardener | 09/11/17 9:27 | I have had many problems with the auto rotation feature. Photos I have uploaded are then turned upside down, on the side, etc. This is so frustrating that if I am unable to find a sollution, I will have to stop using Picasa. |
| Re: I'm having trouble with auto rotation. I check all my photos in microsoft picture manager and they are oriented O.K | Don Lind | 09/11/17 21:20 | When you get two separate editors both worrying about rotating photos, you're likely to end up with one of them being unhappy. The Exif data in many/most cameras tells us, basically, which way is up on a photo. If you just use Picasa, that ALWAYS wo |
| Re: I'm having trouble with auto rotation. I check all my photos in microsoft picture manager and they are oriented O.K | 1gardener | 09/11/25 15:25 | Thanks, good explanation. |
| Re: I'm having trouble with auto rotation. I check all my photos in microsoft picture manager and they are oriented O.K | mklement | 09/12/19 13:14 | Don is absolutely correct: the problem is that Picasa caches the EXIF orientation information, and doesn't pick up changes made by another application. However, there IS a need to use an external application for persistent, save-back-to-file rotatio |
| Re: I'm having trouble with auto rotation. I check all my photos in microsoft picture manager and they are oriented O.K | mklement | 09/12/20 9:14 | On rereading Don's post I realized there IS a convenient way to let Picasa do the persistent rotation: even though Picasa doesn't show you which photos are auto-rotated, *it marks those that are as edited and in need of saving, and saves the rotated |
| Re: I'm having trouble with auto rotation. I check all my photos in microsoft picture manager and they are oriented O.K | mklement | 09/12/20 9:42 | The big CAVEAT here is that if you press the Save button on a folder with photos whose display is out of sync BEFORE re-rotating them, Picasa WILL save an incorrectly rotated version back to disk. |
| Re: I'm having trouble with auto rotation. I check all my photos in microsoft picture manager and they are oriented O.K | Cher bidwise | 10/09/06 15:45 | Hello, I was reading the posts and thought, I would add my situation since I never use auto rotate on my cameras; never ever. I leve that to Picasa..but when I rotate the photos so that I can edit them of course, and uploade them to the web album, t |