Windows 7 - How to rotate?

Asked By Jerry

15-Nov-09 07:07 AM

Windows comes with several photo/image viewing tools (Windows Picture and
Fax Viewer, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Windows Media Center). There is
another "freebie" in Office (Office Picture Manager). None of these is
capable of reading EXIF information about the photo orientation and present
the photo already properly rotated. If you use the "Rotate" control, you
actually overwrite the original photo which is what most of us do not want.

It is only because of this that I have been using other programs for
managing my photos, although for all the rest I am perfectly satisfied with
Windows tools.

Does anybody know of a way to make e.g. Windows Picture and Fax Viewer
rotate the photos based on EXIF info?

16-Dec-09 12:50 PM

Hi,

as far as I know there ist no way to do this - because the piccture viewer
ist from the stone ages and probably hasn?t been changed since Win 3.1.
I?m using Picasa 3 to manage my photos. The good thing is, it comes with a
picture viewer that replaces the win-viewer. It shows the picture in the
correct orientation, has a great zoom, can even handle RAW-formats of many
cameras and is in many aspects more comfortable than the microsoft-thing.
You have to install the complete picasa3 software - but it doesn?t have to
run while you use the picture viewer.