letsgoflyers81 Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 I love Paint.NET but I just noticed an issue that I haven't been able to find the answer for. I searched this forum but couldn't find anything, so I apologize if this has already been covered. I have a Canon PowerShot SX10 IS which has an accelerometer to determine if the camera is being held in landscape or portrait orientation. The camera's settings are correct and I checked some other photo software and found they can detect the orientation data. Is there a way for Paint.NET to do this so I don't have to manually rotate photos taken in portrait orientation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilson Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 I don't see why this is such a problem. I mean it's one keyboard shortcut. Ctrl+H Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 Paint.NET simply does not inspect the orientation metadata. But as Wilson said, thankfully all it takes it a shortcut key. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
letsgoflyers81 Posted February 14, 2010 Author Share Posted February 14, 2010 One reason why it's an issue is that rotating and savig a photo can reduce the quality. I don't know if Paint.NET does this, but MS Photo Viewer and some other applications actually warn you of this. So why have to do something which negatively affects the photo? The other big issue is that if I take a lot of pictures and need to rotate many of them, the time adds up. I don't understand why this application, as fully featured as it is, is missing the ability to do this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Brown Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 One reason why it's an issue is that rotating and savig a photo can reduce the quality. When you save images in lossy formats such as JPEG after editing them you lose quality, which is what it's referring to. If you save the edited version in a lossless format such as PNG it won't reduce the quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 I don't understand why this application, as fully featured as it is, is missing the ability to do this.Might have something to do with the fact that only one person is programming it and he doesn't want to take the time to add features that will only benefit 0.01% of the userbase noticeably... Quote  The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 Actually in this case it's just a matter of it not really fitting well into Paint.NET's design. I think there's an editor out there that does, in fact, allow you to open a JPEG and it'll only recompress the portions of the image that you change. I don't remember its name. However, implementing that would be a major undertaking in Paint.NET right now. Theoretically possible, sure. But the cost:benefit ratio is sky-high. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Brown Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 Actually in this case it's just a matter of it not really fitting well into Paint.NET's design.I think there's an editor out there that does, in fact, allow you to open a JPEG and it'll only recompress the portions of the image that you change. A quick search found a program that rotates JPEGs losslessly, although i'm not sure why you'd want to, given that if you just wanted to store an image the size of a PNG wouldn't be a problem and the resolutions of almost all photos taken in modern digital cameras are too big to post on the web or email, and resizing would require re-encoding anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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