<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Thanks for the replies. The thumbnails are now correct, after restarting KPA several times. I have a bit better understanding now.<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 3/14/11, Andreas Neustifter <i><andreas.neustifter@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Andreas Neustifter <andreas.neustifter@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [KPhotoAlbum] Thumbnails and Images not always correct in Version 4.1.1<br>To: "Murray Strome" <wmstrome@yahoo.com><br>Cc: "KPhotoAlbum List" <kphotoalbum@kdab.net><br>Received: Monday, March 14, 2011, 2:48 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Hi Murray!<br><br>(I'm writing this from the top of my head, please someone correct me<br>if necessary...)<br><br>The handling of thumbnails is as follows: when an image is first added<br>to KPA a
thumbnail is created, this is indexed by the path (or MD5<br>sum?) of the image, the orientation of the image is baked into the<br>thumbnail.<br><br>When you move images or delete and read them the thumbnail is for<br>this image is still in the cache and will be used subsequently.<br><br><br>To get proper thumbnails you first have to get proper orientation for<br>the images: When images are first read into KPA the orientation is<br>read. If you rotate them inplace you have to reread this information,<br>you can do this by selecting the images and using the "Reread EXIF<br>information" (or however its called). In the poping up dialog ensure<br>that the "Read orientation" checkbox is marked.<br><br>To get the proper thumbs you have to rebuild them all, unfortunately<br>there is currently no way to recreate only some of them. To recreate<br>select the "Rebuild Thumbnails" form somewhere in the menu.<br><br></div></blockquote>Doing "Rebuild Thumbnails" did
not really fix the problem. I had also deleted the thumbnails from $HOME/.thumbnails/kphotoalbum, which did not change anything.<br><br>I have since edited a bunch of photos both before opening KPA and by invoking GIMP from KPA, and I did not see this problem for any of those photos. It must have been just some strange combination of operations. Anyway, everything now looks fine, though I really don't quite understand what I did to get there. I think I now appreciate how these are handled, and if I see this again, I won't worry about it too much.<br><div class="plainMail"><br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div class="plainMail"><br>Usually the workflow for people using KPA is to create copies of the<br>pictures that are edited so that the original is always preserved. KPA<br>can then stack those images on top of each other so that they appear as<br>one unit in KPA.
<br><br></div></blockquote>I had not heard of this feature before, so I tried to figure out how to do it. I could not find any directions anywhere, and have been unable to really figure it out. I think I should ask questions about this in a new post.<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div class="plainMail"><br>(Its strongly recommended by everyone to never touch<br>the originals and always edit copies, see also [1]).<br><br>Hope that helps and explains your issues. Please come back to the list<br>with any questions you have.<br><br>Cheers, Andi<br><br>[1] <a href="http://www.dpbestflow.org/links/38" target="_blank">http://www.dpbestflow.org/links/38</a><br><br>Thanks for this great link.<br><br>Murray<br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>