Export to google photos seems loosing the orientation

[Gilles Caulier]

2016-09-27 12:58 GMT+02:00 Matthieu <ermelir at gmail.com>:

> Hello Gilles,
>
> Thank you for your answer.
> I'm not sure to understand what do you suggest: did you suggested that I
> must generate for each RAW file the related JPG file and export only these
> JPG files? I think this is the process involved by the google export
> feature, but do you suggest to do it manually?
>

Yes exactly.

>
> Even if JPEG files which are exported to google photos seems not having
> the same issue, it's quite impossible for me to do that: Almost all my
> pictures are RAW files (more than 10000) and I don't want to save also the
> related JPG (for some storage and picture management reasons).
>

You can do it easily with BQM, at least to confirm than RAW to JPEG
conversion before to upload to cloud service fix the problem. Warning : BQM
has an option to extract embebed preview from RAW instead to process RAW
data, as current google tool do.

>
> I don't know if the issue is during the JPG export  to google photos or
> this is google photos which does not understand the exported files, but for
> sure when I was managing my pictures within picasa, I didn't have this
> issue: All the pictures were well oriented.
> Honestly, I would be very surprised if this issue is during the JPG export
> - because almost all the visible tags in my RAW pictures are also available
> in JPG google photos (like the EXIF geotags, EXIF caption, etc) - so it
> would surprising that orientation tags disappears.
>
> Is there a location where JPG files are stored or are they deleted after
> export to google photos?
> Is there others people who have encountered the same issue?
>
>
If you confirm the issue, please report this to bugzilla.

Gilles Caulier
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