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I have installed the new v6 but am a bit rusty on how to do everything after a long gap. Basically I want to tidy up my existing records before I do any new research. I have added a photo successfully to one record but a second one turns itself upside down and I can see no way to make it go the right way up. What am I doing wrong and how can I correct it?

See how_to:v4:adding_multimedia|> Adding Photographs and Other Multimedia and scroll down to Photo Orientation for a fix. It is possibly caused by the photo being taken with camera upside down.

This topic gives a lot of background, worth reading to prevent future problems:
rotating pictures (11341)

Thank you. I see I have to work on it. If memory serves me right it was sent to me by a cousin in an email and arrived upside down so I had rotated it in Windows but obviously only for viewing it on my computer. Why is life never straight forward?

I use a program called JPEG Autorotate, see here http://savolai.net/software/JPEG-EXIF_autorotate

It adds an entry into the right click menu on Folders and will automatically correct the orientation on all photos in the folder, or optionally all files in the folder and any sub folders. In the right click menu for a single file it will just correct that one picture. It works reliably in Windows 7, although I've not tried it in 8, 8.1 or 10.

A lot easier than using a photo editing program, many of which don't set the EXIF parameters in the file properly anyway, so while the photo might appear correctly in that program, it's still wrong when displayed by others.

I'm still not sure what I am doing but I downloaded Irfanview and rotated it and it is now in FH the right way up. Thanks!

Thanks for that davidm_uk and JPEG Autorotate looks more convenient than Irfanview, it says it is 'with no quality loss' but I cannot find any independent reviews of it.

I also noticed http://annystudio.com/software/jpeglosslessrotator/ which also looks good.

I would be interested in any other comments on jpeg lossless rotators, or even png.

For info, this program is good for removing bloated items from png files, often reducing their size dramatically without loss of quality. http://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_p ... r-portable

IrfanView certainly "does what it says on the tin" when it comes to all of its "JPG Lossless…" transformations, and it can do them in batch mode for a selection of image files, which can be very convenient.