Picture rotation problem

[nat869]

I am trying to use some pics I took about 6 months ago. At the time I had just got the 10D and was shooting in jpeg with the auto rotate feature on. Thinking I was cool, I used Windows XP to rotate all the thumnails 90 degrees so they looked correct. Now when I open the pics, they open up sideways, but look correct on the thumbnail. I figured if I just used photoshop cs to make them look correct on the screen, then after saving them everything would be fine. Well I was wrong. Now all my pics open sideways or upside down. When I use a web browser to open the pics, they are oriented how they look like in the thumbnail. HELP!!! is there anything that can be done to fix it?

[Conk]

I've done that. I believe I rotated the image in a file viewer and when I saved the image, overwrote the original. Don't rotate your thumbs anymore. Careful what program you use to rotate. You could lose your exif data.

[pvdiamon]

I rotate my photos in Zoom Browser, but often they show up sideways if I use them in Windows XP screen saver for photos. Any solution for that? thanks.
John

[Lowner]

John,

"I rotate my photos in Zoom Browser, but often they show up sideways if I use them in Windows XP screen saver for photos. Any solution for that? thanks".

You probably need to "save as" when you have the image as you want it, before you set it up as a screensaver. I generally end up getting the pixel counts messed up when I do this and it takes a lot of fiddling to get the monitor showing the image I want.

[Sorarse]

I got fed up trying to work out which programs would see my pictures the right way up or not, and eventually turned off the auto rotating 'gimmick' on my camera.

This means that any photos I take in portrait mode have to be rotated manually, but once I've done that, they appear the right way up in all subsequent programs I view the in.

[pvdiamon]

John,

"I rotate my photos in Zoom Browser, but often they show up sideways if I use them in Windows XP screen saver for photos. Any solution for that? thanks".

You probably need to "save as" when you have the image as you want it, before you set it up as a screensaver. I generally end up getting the pixel counts messed up when I do this and it takes a lot of fiddling to get the monitor showing the image I want.

When I look at "saving as", I can either use the default, or the higher quality setting. But interestingly, neither saves it as the same size that it was (in megabytes). Default is smaller, high quality is a larger file. Does rotating it change the file size? Would you recommend saving it as larger rather than smaller?

John