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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: marko on September 10, 2005, 07:37:36 am

Title: Matt, Yaobing, what's wrong with this picture? (orientation question)
Post by: marko on September 10, 2005, 07:37:36 am

Got my new camera. Still learning my way around it. It does automatic orientation just like the old Kodak used to do. The Kodak pictures always displayed correctly regardless of the application used. Not so with the new camera...

photoshop elements and acdsee both display the photos correctly orientated.
picture and fax viewer, MC, directory opus all show the photo turned 90 degrees to the left.

If I rotate the image 90 degrees to the right in MC so that it displays correctly, elements and acdsee then display it incorrectly, offset by 90 degrees to the right.

click for sample photo (http://www.theganghut.co.uk/pics/ia/IMG_0234.jpg) (479 kb)

-marko.

Title: Re: Matt, Yaobing, what's wrong with this picture? (orientation question)
Post by: AndromAK on September 10, 2005, 09:58:46 am

When the image is beeing rotated in MC, the "Orientation" tag in the metatags of the jpg is still the same : "Top right"

Acdsee use this information to display the picture correctly...

Perhaps MC does not use this tag...

(http://perso.wanadoo.fr/andromak/vrac/metatags-screenshot.jpg)
sorry I have the french version of ACDSee

Title: Re: Matt, Yaobing, what's wrong with this picture? (orientation question)
Post by: Alex B on September 10, 2005, 12:57:05 pm

marko,

how did you transfer the images from your old camera? Is it possible that the software you used rotated the images on the fly according to the orientation info?

Do you have any unaltered images made with the Kodak camera? You could post a sample.

Title: Re: Matt, Yaobing, what's wrong with this picture? (orientation question)
Post by: JimH on September 10, 2005, 02:17:39 pm

We can take a look at this when  we get to work on 11.1, but for now, I wonder if ACDSee allows you to tell it to ignore the rotation flag.  Then you could just rotate all the images that aren't right.  MC11's jpg rotation is lossless.

Title: Re: Matt, Yaobing, what's wrong with this picture? (orientation question)
Post by: JimH on September 10, 2005, 04:51:34 pm

Hi Marko,
At this point you probably know more than I do about it.  We'll look at it later, but I can't say when.

Title: Re: Matt, Yaobing, what's wrong with this picture? (orientation question)
Post by: GHammer on September 12, 2005, 07:21:47 pm

A library like this might just be an answer to image related issues for MC.
Why reinvent the wheel?

http://www.polybytes.com/pifeatures.htm