Use software that normalizes the photos as you pull them off of the camera Ok, now that you’re caught up on what EXIF is, what do you do? You have a few options: Here’s a good explanation of orientation, with much more detail than I could : This problem became a pain when I was uploading pictures for this blog, so I went ahead and researched it. Now, picture viewer looks correct but any photo application that properly reads the flag will still try to perform the rotation, and things again look wrong.

Picture viewer rotated the pixels, but left the flag that it didn’t understand. So, when I scan through photos and see one that’s sideways (since I turned the camera to take it), I click the rotate button and all seems swell. It just always assumes the same orientation and throws the picture up on the screen. It isn’t smart enough to read the orientation flag and show the picture correctly (even the version in Windows 7, I’ve read). Microsoft’s “Windows Picture and Fax Viewer” was the root of my problem. Windows Explorer seems to think it looks right… Something is wrong with the second picture I had some issues with photo orientation for a while, but it became a real pain when I started uploading photos to this blog. If you have ever found a photo from your camera oriented the wrong way, you have probably fallen afoul of software that doesn’t handle EXIF data correctly.

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