[Digikam-users] Re: Digikam rotation is incomprehensible to me

[Elle Stone]

This is an old thread, but I'm having the same difficulty.

I don't use digikam to import images from camera to album folder. Rather I
copy the images from the camera card to a folder NOT part of digikam's
database, for preliminary culling, and for adding certain metadata using
exiftool. 

Once the images are imported into digikam, I want to rotate images with the
wrong orientation to the right orientation, using digikam (I trust that
lossless jpeg rotation really is lossless).  However, no matter what
settings I use in the "configure digikam" dialong regarding image rotation,
to actually get the correct orientation for images that need rotating, I
have to rotate the image twice. Before rotation, the thumb is right, but the
file and preview are wrong. After the first rotation, everything is wrong.
Then the second rotation, this time in the opposite direction, gets
everything - file, thumb, preview - oriented correctly.

However, if I use exiftool at the command line to set all the orientation
tags to normal:

exiftool -n -r -overwrite_original -if '$Orientation ne 1' -Orientation=1
/path/to/images

then in digikam I only have to rotate the incorrectly-oriented images once
to get everything correctly oriented.

Anyone else have similar problems with digikam image rotation? 

I'm using digikam 1.7.

Regards,
Elle Stone
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