I’m building a gallery website and I would like to use Showcase. Here’s the thing: some (but not all) portrait pics are rotated 90º.
I can’t see any difference between the pics affected and those that stay portrait - the original files are all jpegs and are all the right way up to start with.
I can’t see a way of changing the orientation of the pics once imported, which would be a good addition.
You will need to set the orientation of the image before importing it into the Freeway Showcase application. I’ll log a feature request.
Joe
On 14 Sep 2010, at 14:25, Paul Hibbert wrote:
I’m building a gallery website and I would like to use Showcase. Here’s the thing: some (but not all) portrait pics are rotated 90º.
I can’t see any difference between the pics affected and those that stay portrait - the original files are all jpegs and are all the right way up to start with.
I can’t see a way of changing the orientation of the pics once imported, which would be a good addition.
You will need to set the orientation of the image before importing it into the Freeway Showcase application. I’ll log a feature request.
Joe
A new feature to change the orientation of a pic would be nice, but in this case the pics were all the right way up before I started to import them. It looks more like a bug (!)
Depending on your camera and your image management software, the fact
that you see them all in the correct orientation may be an artifact of
auto-rotating. (I believe recent versions of Finder can even do this.)
The image orientation at capture is stored in an extended data area in
the file, and this is used by the application to auto-rotate the
image. If Showcase doesn’t read this, then that’s a strong clue that
it might just be reading the actual pixel data instead of being
helpful like that. The actual pixel data would not be affected by this
feature, it’s just a view-layer effect. If you did already rotate
these images and re-save them, then I don’t have any idea what could
be causing this.
Walter
On Sep 14, 2010, at 9:35 AM, Paul Hibbert wrote:
On 14 Sep 2010, 1:31 pm, Joe Billings wrote:
Hi Paul,
You will need to set the orientation of the image before importing
it into the Freeway Showcase application. I’ll log a feature request.
Joe
A new feature to change the orientation of a pic would be nice, but
in this case the pics were all the right way up before I started to
import them. It looks more like a bug (!)
Nice thought, Walter but I’ve opened the pics in question in PhotoShop and they are both the right way up. Checking the Image>Image Size confirms that the width is less than the height.
Look in the IPTC attributes part of File/File Info in Photoshop, and see if there is a camera orientation property set on the file. Showcase may be double-rotating it, rather than ignoring orientation as I presumed.
Off topic… but I have a pretty fast internet connection and your images are taking forever to come up. I dont know if this is because of their file size or because of your server or because of Showcase. If it is Showcase slowing things down, you could just use ScriptyLightbox and thumbnails.
OK it shows ‘Orientation: Left Bottom’ and it also says the pic has more pixels in the X direction than the Y direction, which I suppose makes it sideways.
I’ve been using pics as they were as they were imported off the camera. I’ve resaved the pic without changing anything and it’s going into Showcase the right way up. Checking the camera data and it shows ‘Orientation: Normal’ and it also says the pic has LESS pixels in the X direction than the Y direction.
So when I’m looking at a pic in Finder or in Photoshop I might be seeing a pic that’s been autorotated. I need to check the camera data to see if it’s portrait or landscape, however it looks on screen.
Blimey. Once again, Walter, many thanks. I’ve learned something today.
Sometime around 14/9/10 (at 10:19 -0400) Paul Hibbert said:
So when I’m looking at a pic in Finder or in Photoshop I might be
seeing a pic that’s been autorotated. I need to check the camera
data to see if it’s portrait or landscape, however it looks on
screen.
The auto-rotate feature in digital cameras is very clever, but it has
proven to be the cause of a LOT of head-scratching over the years as
it is sometimes used, sometimes ignored, and almost never disclosed
in any useful, easily-accessible way. I turn this stuff off in the
camera, personally.
I’m building a gallery website and I would like to use Showcase. Here’s the thing: some (but not all) portrait pics are rotated 90º.
I can’t see any difference between the pics affected and those that stay portrait - the original files are all jpegs and are all the right way up to start with.
I can’t see a way of changing the orientation of the pics once imported, which would be a good addition.
I believe Preview.app will do the job. Check out Tools->Rotate… Then you can save your pic over along with the new orientation. That works with jpg files.