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Windows Photo Gallery: auto-rotate by EXIF data

Submitted by ion on June 16, 2008 to Annoyance, Usability

Windows Photo Gallery and Media Center does not support automatically rotating photos by their EXIF information. I have a cheap photo camera like millions of other users and it adds EXIF orientation tag to the files.

It's annoying to rotate all images manually one by one when there are hundreds of photos.

In fact it would be very nice if even Windows Explorer would support it when the user browses a picture folder in Thumbnail view but i don't want to ask for too much.

Please add support for EXIF orientation/rotation data in Windows or at least in the graphic applications.

High

Medium

Not fixed

Discussion (12 comments)

ion wrote on June 16, 2008, 10:29am

Added new image attachment.

ion wrote on June 16, 2008, 10:30am

Added new image attachment.

ion wrote on June 16, 2008, 10:46am

Changed problem description.
Changed impact from [Low] to [Medium].

dentaku wrote on June 16, 2008, 12:15pm

Doesn't the new (FAR BETTER) photo importer built into Live Photo Gallery do this? I don't wuite remember and I can't test it on this machine.
I think Live Photo Gallery should just completely replace Windows Photo Gallery anyway.

ion wrote on June 16, 2008, 12:36pm

Sadly, the Live Photo Gallery doesn't support it either.

europrg_09 wrote on June 16, 2008, 9:46pm

a much needed feature

acidphosphatase wrote on June 16, 2008, 10:43pm

Live photogallery auto-rotates upon import into the gallery using EXIF data.

thenonhacker wrote on June 18, 2008, 5:52pm

+1, a must-have intelligent feature! My Canon does this, same with Photoshop, so it should be a standard thing to do because it saves time.

zoran wrote on June 19, 2008, 4:57am

oh my god yes! Windows is probably about the only thing left around today that is not smart enough to do this.

xentrax wrote on January 10, 2009, 11:15am

They've just released (during CES2009) LIVE Photo Gallery and it still has this bug.


They had years to fix it since Vista Release. Accoring to Google program manager who worked on Vista Gallery and now works on Live Gallery product is John Thornton.


By the way, if you actually rotate(!) picture using Live Photo Gallery it will rotate bits but don't update orientation EXIF attribute. After that all other software will display picture incorrectly.


xentrax wrote on May 8, 2009, 8:21pm

Windows 7 RC image viewing component still has this bug.

xmueller66 wrote on July 12, 2009, 3:48am

This is truly the most annoying problem with Photo Gallery and Windows Media Center... Someone from Microsoft previously stated that the pictures are rotated properly if they are imported using Photo Gallery. But seriously, who does that?
I'd love to use Media Center, but until this issue is solved, I won't waste my time.

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