An update on this old thread:
I started posting a question on the ACDSEE forum:
http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/does-current-acdsee -have-this-bug-fixed?replies=24 I think I have found a clear bug or two in ACDSEE, even though ACDSEE deny any bugs. But it is odd that Photoshop has no config for this stuff on files which it opens.
But it is an interesting lesson anyway. It appears to be a convention that after any editing, the EXIF orientation tag should be reset to ‘upper left’ i.e. after any edit the image is the right way up otherwise you would not be editing it in the first place!!! My ACDSEE v5 doesn’t do this.
The Jpeg rotation tag is a completely separate issue and it seems most apps implement it correctly. The problem arises with newer apps which *also* implement the EXIF rotation value.
Photoshop 7 has always worked for me well, with ACDSEE v5, apparently because it ignores the EXIF orientation tag (which ACDSEE leaves, post-rotation, still showing that the image needs to be rotated) but it does seem to implement the Jpeg rotation tag, despite Photoshop not appearing on this list
http://jpegclub.org/losslessapps.html Photoshop CS3 no longer works for me because it does implement the EXIF orientation tag and thus displays the image in the form before ACDSEE tried to rotate it.
Curiously Photoshop CS3 doesn’t have any config for this. It has ‘ignore EXIF profile tag’ under file handling but this doesn’t do anything that I can see.
I have disabled the rotation tag in my Pentax camera and this solves the issue completely (because now all images are recorded with "upper left" and stay that way through any ACDSEE rotation) but e.g. a Canon S90 camera has no config for this so the issue remains.
Joel wrote
Peter wrote:
Joel wrote
Then later I dunno if my newer DSLR cameras, or ACDSee and Photoshop have the auto-rotating, but few years ago they started doing the right thing all by themselves.
Are you saying the camera has a rotation sensor (like an Iphone) and writes out the Jpeg file in the right orientation?
I don’t think I have ever mentioned the word sensor. All I said that many newer cameras know how to turn you camera between Landscape and Portrait mode, they put the information to EXIF or whatever to tell viewer what is the right way to view the photo.
Or the photo should display right-side-up no matter you photograph in portrait or landscape mode. And I have never tried to turn the shutter button to lower-right, or upside-down to know if me cameras know what to save to the EXIF.
Or does it just store some rotation tag?
Something I don’t know so I can’t answer you. But if the camera can save and view the photo information from the EXIF then it should need no manually rotation.
If you are talking about util, then yes, I have used one over a decade ago and it did a real good job ratating photo to correct display. And ACDSee is/was one of the utils have the batch ratating option.