Re: Image rotation

[Jakub Steiner <jimmac novell com>]

On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 20:38 +0200, Daniel K�rote:
> Hi!
> 
> First of all, thanks for the nice tool, it really brought me closer to 
> my photos!
> 
> I just detected a change in the rotation feature of f-spot and I don't 
> know if it is a feature or a bug :-)
> With older versions of f-spot (0.1.1 or lower?) rotating images 
> resulted in really rotated images, not just f-spot displaying the 
> image in the new orientation. But with versions 0.1.2 and 0.1.3 
> (debian packages) only f-spot displays the new orientation after 
> rotating, while the image itself stays in the original orientation. 
> The exif orientation data is changed (i.e., left-top becomes right-top 
> when rotating right), but the thumbnail in the exif is not changed.
> 
> While this feature/bug is no problem within f-spot, it is quite 
> annyoing when using the photos outside of f-spot. I would like to stay 
> within f-spot to manage my photos, without the need for another tool 
> to "really rotate" the images before using them for somthing else.

Hi There,
I believe F-Spot way is very clean and conforms with most photographer's
philosophy of "never touching the negative". But I know we don't live in
a perfect world and the pool of applications not understanding the exif
tags is still big.

On the mac, sometimes a power-user feature is hidden behind and
option-click. What if F-Spot did the real (jpegtran's "lossless")
rotation on alt+clicking the toolbar icons, Larry?

cheers

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Jakub Steiner <jimmac novell com>
Novell, Inc.