[Digikam-users] exif orientation

[Marcel Wiesweg]

> I just hit a problem. Not so minor.
> 
> there are two setup about orientation in digikam (1.0)
> * rotate the image according to the exifs
> * change the orientation if image is rotated (should say: manually)
> 
> (I'm french, I don't know the exact english text)
> 
> Problem is: if you don't see the image with the bas orientation, you
> can't rotate it manually and so you have no way to know the
> orientation is not the good one.
> 
> I just uploaded gigabits of images just to notice I don't see them
> online like they should be :-(
> 
> there should be, at least, a third option: rotate *and* fix the exifs.
> Was this not the default before? I never noticed that

So you uploaded your images to a place which does not know how to handle exif 
orientation flags? Use "Auto Rotate/Flip Using Exif Information", which 
rotates the actual image data according to the flag and then resets the flag 
to Normal.