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Auto-rotate pictures when viewed in WL Photo Gallery using EXIF information
Photo's STILL do not auto rotate according to the EXIF information embedded into pictures by 99% of digital cameras.
When viewing photos that are manually copied to folders on the computer, WLPG does not rotate them automatically.
Most other applications do this (photoshop, paint shop pro, acdsee, etc etc.)
I don't understand why this feature has not been implemented. It's such a basic thing!
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No automatic editing! But as option I'd appreciate it
No automatic editing at all. The software should rotate it at render time only.
Sounds good.
+1
I just want the pictures to auto rotate when viewed in the thumbnail gallery, when opened full screen, and also when played via the slideshow or via the Windows Photo screensaver.
Sure, add an option such as "Cancel Auto-orientation" for editing if required, but I would think that MOST people, when opening and editing a photo - will rotate a portrait orientated shot so that it's the right way up!
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http://blogs.msdn.com/pix/pages/faq.aspx#q13
Q: Why doesn't the Photo Gallery automatically rotate all of my photos?
Some photo applications will display photos as rotated (we refer to this features as 'soft' rotating) by reading metadata on the photo itself. Although the Photo Gallery rotates photos on import using this same metadata, many users have asked why it doesn't also rotate all un-rotated photos in their collection for them automatically, or at least display the photos as rotated like some other applications do?
The reason that the Photo Gallery rotates on import, but not after that (unless the user explicitly rotates a file), is because there are a number of applications that don't correctly update the photo metadata after rotating. This metadata is supposed to reflect the state of the photo, but if the photo is rotated without updating this metadata, another application using this metadata to determine whether or not to rotate it will incorrectly rotate the photo.
During import, the photos are coming directly from the camera, at which point the integrity of this metadata is not in question. So although it's 'safe' for the Photo Gallery to rely on this metadata to make an accurate rotate decision during import, as soon as the photo makes its way to the PC, any other application could interact with the photo, and potentially corrupt this metadata. Therefore, the Photo Gallery doesn't 'soft rotate' at this point.
We continue to hear feedback from users that this is a desired feature. Since most photo applications today handle this metadata correctly (most of the badly behaving applications have either been retired or updated over the years), we may revisit this decision in the future.
It is very annoying that Windows still does not support this. It will be a very good thing if they fix this.
It's not annoying, it's a joke really. This is something that all modern day photo viewers do already. Not only does Windows photo gallery and Windows live photos lack this feature, but Windows media center 7 lacks this feature too! Even more frustrating is that Windows media center 7 doesn't rotate the pictures when you view them. However, when the MC7 screensaver/background that tiles your images is shown, it DOES automatically rotate the photos based on exif, I must think that Microsoft employees do not use their own products because who in their right might thinks it's okay to have to turn your head sideways just to view photos!?! It's the little things like this that prevent people from using Microsoft products. Forget about what other people are doing wrong. Think about what Microsoft can do better and do the right, logical thing.
I waited so long for MC7 to come out as I thought this would have been fixed. I'm disappointed that something this simple, yet important, needs to be revisited in the future. Will we have to wait until MC8 comes in it 10 years just to get this feature? I was also disappointed to find out that Windows live photo gallery beta did not support this either. If they ever add this feature, I sure hope that it's implemented across the board so that there is a consistent experience....
Ahh comeon, You do NOT edit picture just because it autorotate.
Program reads exif infomation and DISPLAY it accordingly.
All it takes is a checkbox, auto rotate or not.
I dont give a care what people have "done" to their pictures, if they didnt handle them right and edited them with program that didnt update exif information, why should rest suffer from that.
This is not a program for me unless it gets sorted.
This sounds like a problem mac users would run in to. Mac mobile devices won't support flash now Microsoft wont support an option that everyone else supports. I do not want my photos altered in any way. I keep md5 structure on all images and videos if they are rotated and resaved the md5 is altered. A soft rotate should be an option to turn on and off.
kev_gordon wrote on March 9, 2009, 5:55pm
Changed title from [Auto-rotate photo's when viewed in WL Photo Gallery] to [Auto-rotate pictures when viewed in WL Photo Gallery using EXIF information].