Photo's taken with iPhone 4S

[Repelstale]

Hi there,

Maybe someone can give me advice on this, cause it's driving me a little nuts.

When I take a picture with my iPhone 4S in portraitmode, when I store it on my computer, it's stored there in landscapemode. That is, the thumbnail shows the picture rotated counterclockwise in landscapemode, and so does every program (pictureviewer, photo gallery, internet explorer etc.) I use to open it.

My PCH C-200 however is "smart enough" to show the picture in portraitmode.

But here's the annoying part: when I correct this on my computer, turn the picture clockwise so it's in portraitmode, it shows correct on my computer, but now the image on my PCH C-200 is turned clockwise to landscapemode!

How can I fix this? There is one picturefile from my iPhone that is correct in portraitmode, both on my computer and on my PCH C-200, but I don't know what I did differently with that one. But I now know it can be done...

[Pernod]

The iPhone will be setting the EXIF Orientation tag to tell the player that it should be rotated. When you rotate and save the image on your computer the EXIF Orientation tag is likely not being reset accordingly, so the PCH still thinks it needs rotating.

What you need is software that allows you to view and set the EXIF Orientation tag, all decent photo viewers should allow you to do this.

[Repelstale]

The ones I mentioned didn't

[Repelstale]

Listen, I've looked around on the internet, and it seems that the whole EXI Orientation thing has to do with the fact that I just copy-pasted my iPhone pictures on my NAS, instead of using the "import Pictures" option available in Autoplay. My iPhone 4S doesn't seem to be registered in the list of devices available for Autoplay. I've already put threads about that on Apple and Microsoft forums. I've tried manually using the "import Pictures" option (Computer, select iPhone, richtclick, select "import Pictures"), but this didn't seem to do the whole trick either: some pictures were rotated correctly, others weren't rotated at all. Dumb-ass software.

I know, all of this seems to have little to do with my Popcorn Hour, and everything to do with the interaction between my iPhone and windows PC. As a matter of fact, my PCH seems to be the device that does everything right.

Still, if you guys can help me fix this, I'd be grateful.

[Pernod]

Personally I use ACDsee Pro 5 to manage my photos but I'm sure you can find a free alternative. If you're using Windows 7 then the included Windows Photo Viewer should be sufficient.

[plm]

Look for a lossless JPEG photo rotator too. There are plenty of these available free and they'll rotate, with no quality loss, any files in a folder where the orientation EXIF flag isn't set to 0, and then reset the flag to 0.

This means that anything EXIF-aware is going to read the 0 degree setting and not bother to rotate it, and anything that isn't is going to find the image correctly rotated anyway.

[Repelstale]

(07-07-2012 07:12 PM)plm Wrote:  Look for a lossless JPEG photo rotator too. There are plenty of these available free and they'll rotate, with no quality loss, any files in a folder where the orientation EXIF flag isn't set to 0, and then reset the flag to 0.

This means that anything EXIF-aware is going to read the 0 degree setting and not bother to rotate it, and anything that isn't is going to find the image correctly rotated anyway.

Thanks for the reply, plm.

I found this great software
http://www.nicocuppen.com/products/lossl...tator.html
It lets you "correct" entire folders, and it works (almost) flawlessly. Well, some thumbnails are still in landscapemode, but the actual images that need to be in portraitmode are all in portraitmode.

I'm very happy with this. I'm no longer dependent on having to correct every file myself, and I don't have to follow Window's STUPID "Import images" anymore (not only are they wrong half the time about portraitmode, but you have to download the entire content of your DCIM-folder every single time!).

[plm]

(07-07-2012 10:21 PM)Repelstale Wrote:  Well, some thumbnails are still in landscapemode, but the actual images that need to be in portraitmode are all in portraitmode.

It sounds like you have thumbnail caching enabled on that folder, which is the Windows default. Disable it and re-enable it (if you want to) and you should get all your thumbnails in the same orientation as the original images.