From: isw on
In article <2010062920593033169-savageduck1(a)REMOVESPAMmecom>,
Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:

> On 2010-06-29 20:39:19 -0700, isw <isw(a)witzend.com> said:
>
> > In article <4c2a2933$0$10541$426a74cc(a)news.free.fr>,
> > Ofnuts <o.f.n.u.t.s(a)la.poste.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On 29/06/2010 18:38, isw wrote:
> >>> And iPhoto "properly" handles it by keeping the original (which is not
> >>> oriented properly, as indicated by the EXIF data) and making a properly
> >>> oriented copy. The problem is, I do not want a copy; I want the original
> >>> to be rotated.
> >>
> >> So, your problem is that somewhere down the path, some software doesn't
> >> take in account the exif rotation, so you want to rotate the picture
> >> once for all and reset the flag?
> >
> > Bingo. More specifically, I do not want iPhoto to have a "secret"
> > rotated version; I want the file in my external library to be "correct".
> >
> > Isaac
>
> Then sad to say iPhoto is probably not the best software to use. As it
> is it makes all sorts of unusual things to store images, which I find
> annoying

Using an external library takes care of most of those; one exception
I've found being the silent creation of a correctly oriented copy of
images where EXIF Orientation is not "1".

Isaac