Strange Explorer behaviour with thumbnails

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Glenis
Feb 27, 2007
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I got a bunch of photos (JPGs)in a folder from my daughter. If I use Windows XP Explorer to view them (using Thumbnail or Filmstrip view) many of them are rotated 90 degrees CW. This is not unusual – she’s probably taken Portrait shots.
However, the strange thing is that when I open them in a Graphics package (such as Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro or Picassa) they are magically rotated to the correct orientation!!!
What on earth…?

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Rudy Benner
Feb 28, 2007
"Glenis" wrote in message
I got a bunch of photos (JPGs)in a folder from my daughter. If I use Windows XP Explorer to view them (using Thumbnail or Filmstrip view) many of them are rotated 90 degrees CW. This is not unusual – she’s probably taken Portrait shots.
However, the strange thing is that when I open them in a Graphics package (such as Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro or Picassa) they are magically rotated to the correct orientation!!!
What on earth…?

Some cameras have a detector for orientation, and they set a parameter in the EXIF data accordingly. Some software will look for this information.
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Tacit
Feb 28, 2007
In article <45e4bcd1$0$8724$>,
Glenis wrote:

I got a bunch of photos (JPGs)in a folder from my daughter. If I use Windows XP Explorer to view them (using Thumbnail or Filmstrip view) many of them are rotated 90 degrees CW. This is not unusual – she’s probably taken Portrait shots.
However, the strange thing is that when I open them in a Graphics package (such as Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro or Picassa) they are magically rotated to the correct orientation!!!
What on earth…?

Explorer will not read the "EXIF data" placed in the image by the camera. This data contains, among other things, information about whether or not the picture should be rotated. Photoshop does read this information, and will rotate the image if the EXIF data instructs it to.


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Glenis
Feb 28, 2007
Aha! Of course. You learn something everyday
Thanks

tacit wrote:
In article <45e4bcd1$0$8724$>,
Glenis wrote:

I got a bunch of photos (JPGs)in a folder from my daughter. If I use Windows XP Explorer to view them (using Thumbnail or Filmstrip view) many of them are rotated 90 degrees CW. This is not unusual – she’s probably taken Portrait shots.
However, the strange thing is that when I open them in a Graphics package (such as Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro or Picassa) they are magically rotated to the correct orientation!!!
What on earth…?

Explorer will not read the "EXIF data" placed in the image by the camera. This data contains, among other things, information about whether or not the picture should be rotated. Photoshop does read this information, and will rotate the image if the EXIF data instructs it to.

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