Re: Image rotations

["David Berg" <drberg1000 gmail com>]

On 6/8/06, Jamie Wilkinson <jaq spacepants org> wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, David Berg wrote:
> >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?
>
> I noticed a comment in the FlickrRemote.cs file yesterday that says
> something along the lines of "FIXME: flickr needs rotation", so I suspect
> that the orientation data could be included in the file upload.

I don't know how f-spot is organized so I could be wrong but I don't
think its a problem with any code specific to flickr.  I remember this
morning that my camera would rotate images by adjusting exif as well
and tried it using that to rotate instead of f-spot.  When I uploaded
a camera-rotated-image flickr auto-rotated it.  I uploaded the image
both using the web interface and f-spot and both methods worked fine.

When I ran exif on an image I had rotated using f-spot and compared it
to this one I found that the camera-rotated-image had these entries
for Orientation:

dberg dale:~/Photos/2006/6/10$ exif DSC02341.JPG  | grep Orientation
Orientation         |right - top
Orientation         |right - top

Where as the image rotated in f-spot had these entries:

dberg dale:~/Photos/2006/6/10$ exif DSC02342.JPG | grep Orientation
Orientation         |right - top
Orientation         |top - left

Apparently flickr looks at both or just the second and is either
confused by the mismatched info or decides it doesn't need to be
rotated.

Should I file a bug for this?

--Dave
> I've been playing around in there so if I find out what's going on with that
> I'll submit a patch.  No guarantees though ;-)
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