Re: Image rotations

["David Berg" <drberg1000 gmail com>]

On 6/7/06, Larry Ewing <lewing novell com> wrote:
> On the flickr site turn on the auto rotate option, that will let them
> display the way you expect there.  F-Spot rotates jpegs by changing the

Hmmmm..... An f-spot rotated image does not display as rotated on
flickr weather I use their "auto rotate" or not.  Using their online
uploading tool instead of f-spot's also doesn't make a difference.

Again, am I missing something?

--Dave

> exif orientation of the image because it is a small relatively safe
> modification.  This produces an image just like what the camera would
> have produced if it did have an orientation sensor.  I chose to do it
> this way because f-spot supports loading these images correctly and
> other rotation methods, lossless or otherwise, require much more drastic
> modifications to but the image and the metadata.  The metadata dialog
> displays the thumbnail stored in the exif data which is always stored
> with the sensor orientation, so that is how you would expect it to look.
>
> That said, I will probably add an option to the preferences dialog to do
> rotation of the coefficients sometime in the near future because the
> code is already in f-spot for other reasons and some people prefer it.
>
> --Larry
>
> On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 12:33 -0500, David Berg wrote:
> > I just imported some photos from my camera which does not have any
> > orientation information.  I rotated the photos, then exported them to
> > flickr.  When viewing them on flickr they are not rotated.  I also
> > notice that when I view the image in the Metadata Browser the images
> > are not rotated there. I do not have flickr "auto-magically" rotating
> > images when they are uploaded.
> >
> > Am I missing something or is this a bug?
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