Download Photos from Camera

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Huh? How is IT supposed to know which side of your photo you want in which direction?
Recognize v photo? Yes. Recognize h photo? Yes. Read your mind and display it on
the screen the way you want it, NO! I don't understand why anyone would want such
a program with all the excellent freeware graphics programs (IrfanView for example)
that display your photo the way you took it and allow you to adjust it (colors, negative,
grayscale, flip horizontally, flip vertically, rotate by degrees -- you state how many degrees,
etc.)

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At date Wed, 28 Dec 2005 19:03:39 -0500, ("Helen" <@abuse.roman.gov>)
for said:
Same here with a Nikon Coolpix 5600! XP Home SP1.
But there is also some software that came with my HP printer.
(I wouldn't buy another HP, but while this one works, I'll use it -
HP 3-in-one printer, scanner, fax).
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Most cameras work this way.
I just plug the cord that came with the camera into a USB
slot and up comes the Windows screen with a list of choices
(copy to folder, transfer to...do nothing, use this, use that, blah, blah blah).
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I get the listing whenever I have both video and image files (my camera
supports recording videos).
When it's only image, it's set to go straight to opening the folder.

From this, it is straight steps to copy from the camera to the hard
drive and open an image editor.
 
Windows explorer cant rotate the portrait pics.

Bob said:
You REALLY need to learn to use Windows Explorer. It has thumbnails, and you
can instantly see which are portrait and which are landscape. It's the best
photo cataloger you can ever ask for. It will automatically download
pictures from your camera, and catalog them by year, month, and day.

Use a simple program like FastStone Image Viewer to rotate, crop, and do
other simple editing.
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There is an option to use the exif data when reading it. This shows
portrait photos orientated appropiately but it doesn't save it that way.
So when I open the image in another viewer its not rotated.
 
This shows portrait photos orientated appropiately but it doesn't save
it that way. So when I open the image in another viewer its not rotated.
 
Gerard said:
Sure. Most most reading software is not even EXIF aware.
Let alone, capable of auto rotating the presentation if EXIF says
it should be portrait mode :-)
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I'd have to disagree. It's rare to find software that doesn't read EXIF
and the majority of it will auto rotate.
What software are you talking about?
 
rdt said:
This shows portrait photos orientated appropiately but it doesn't save
it that way. So when I open the image in another viewer its not
rotated.
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It does if you select all the images (Ctrl+A) and then click Tools >
JPEG Lossless transformations > Rotate based on EXIF value.
 
There is an option to use the exif data when reading it. This shows
portrait photos orientated appropiately but it doesn't save it that way.
So when I open the image in another viewer its not rotated.
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I am fairly certain that there are graphics editors that will rotate,
and then allow a lossless save. So that they are the right way up in
another viewer. I cannot remember a name at the moment but perhaps
someone else will.

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Helen said:
Huh? How is IT supposed to know which side of your photo you want in
which direction? Recognize v photo? Yes. Recognize h photo? Yes.
Read your mind and display it on
the screen the way you want it, NO! I don't understand why anyone
would want such
a program with all the excellent freeware graphics programs
(IrfanView for example)
that display your photo the way you took it and allow you to adjust
it (colors, negative, grayscale, flip horizontally, flip vertically,
rotate by degrees -- you state how many degrees, etc.)
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Most digital cameras have a sensor that reads whether the camera is held
horizontally or vertically when the shot is taken. This is recorded in
the image file as part of the EXIF data and is read by the image viewer
software. As long as the option is selected, the software will then
display the image at the correct orientation. Irfanview, XnView and
FastStone image viewers will all do this and all can losslessy rotate
the image permanently. With JPEG files this lossless rotation is
important... using normal rotation requires decoding and re-encoding
the file, which will cause some measure of information loss.
 
Imposter said:
Think there may be some misunderstanding here.
Are you asking for a program which will "see" both vertical and
horizontal taken photos, and automatically, without further
involvement from you, turn the vertical ones upright? If so I can't
help. (may explain why the Canon proggie seems bloated)
Most, if not all, will "see" both H and V photos, and (in Irfanview
and probably similar in most other programs) under 'VIEW' rotate
Left, or rotate Right, allow you to view, edit and print it correctly.
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In IrfanView, if you go to Options > Properties > JPG/PCD/GIF tab and
check the option to "Auto-rotate image according to EXIF info (if
available), and your images will be automatically displayed the right
way up... in the thumbnail viewer as well. If the image is a JPEG and
you need to rotate it for use in a program that doesn't read EXIF,
rotate it using "JPEG Lossless Operations" to avoid the slight quality
loss caused by decoding and re-encoding in a lossy format.
 
At date Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:19:42 +1100, rdt ([email protected]) wrote in
for newsgroup said:
I tried it on xnview but it couldn't rotate them images, is there a way
to trigger this?
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The easiest way to rotate images with XnView is to use SHIFT+L (90°
left) and SHIFT+R (90° right), IMHO.

Or Tools -> JPEG Lossless operations -> 'rotate based on EXIF value'
should work.
 
Yes it can. I use a freeware version of cam2pc (4.5.2) which uses EXIF data
to rotate an image to the correct orientation. My camera doesn't support
this feature so I've never used it. Apparently it can be done automatically
when you download pictures.

This is how the program describes it:

"Rotate and Flip

cam2pc supports JPEG lossless transformations. It means that when it needs
to rotate a JPEG image, it does not need to decompress the image, rotate it
and then recompress it. This would lead to a quality loss and should be
avoided.
If the images you selected cannot be losslessly rotated (non-JPEG files or
JPEG files which do not match the lossless criterias) then you will be
prompted whether or not you want to perform a lossy transformation.
Some cameras write the orientation of the camera when each photo was shot.
To determine this, take a picture with your camera holding it not the normal
landscape way. Then transfer your picture and display the EXIF metadata for
the picture. Look for the value of the [Orientation] tag. If its value is 1
then your camera does not support this feature. If its value is different is
different than 1 then you can use the "Auto-transform" feature that will
automatically turn your pictures to the right orientation!
In this case, you can even activate the "Auto-transform" feature at transfer
time..."

http://www.nabocorp.com/cam2pc/freeware.php

I really like cam2pc. This is one product I would pay for.
 
Windows explorer cant rotate the portrait pics.
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It will in Millennium and XP, not that I like the "Windows Picture and Fax
Viewer"

That's why I suggested to use a simple program like FastStone Image Viewer
to rotate, crop, and do other simple editing.


Happy New Year!
 
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