Why does it rotate some images and not others?

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Ali Posted: 10-07-2008 12:43 AM

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I have pictures saved that are Landscape and portrait.

Why will AutoCollage rotate some portrait images to landscape, rendering them useless in the collage.?

 Thanks.

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johnmil replied on 10-07-2008 2:26 AM

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Thank you for your question -

AutoCollage shouldn't be rotating any images. Whatever orientation these images have when you browse them via the windows explorer (and see them in the image browser preview in AutoCollage) is the orientation they will have in the final collage.

To see the orientation of your images, you can navigate to the folder containing your images and view them in AutoCollage. Or, you can view them in the Windows Explorer.

To use the Explorer to browse images in Vista, for example, as follows:

1. Open 'Computer' by double-clicking on it. Your Hard Disk Drives should be displayed
2. Double-click on the drive with your pictures, and navigate to the folder with your pictures by double-clicking on the appropriate folder name.
3. Above the list of files in the folder, is a small toolbar which should have a 'Views' option. click on the arrow next to 'Views' and select 'large icons'.

You can now inspect your images and see what orientation they are in. If you want to change the orientation of some of those images,  you can do so using tools such as Microsoft Office Picture Manager or Windows Photo Gallery.

As a side note, some people have requested a feature for future versions of AutoCollage where AutoCollage will automatically detect whether a picture was taken in landscape or portrait mode. We are considering this enhancement for future versions of AutoCollage.

Please let us know if this doesn't answer your question, and we'll do what we can to help.

Thank you for your question, and for trying out AutoCollage!