Imported photos end up sideways - how do you rotate within iphone?

Question

SYnching photos from Picasa/Google, all the photos are correct in their orientation but when they come into iPhone, many get turned sideways. How do you rotate them back? (Of course if you turn the phone, the photo's orientation changes as well). Help - thanks!

Answer 1

I apologize if I have hijacked the thread or if it seems that I have attempted to derail it in any way.
My issue is "when they come into iPhone" and appears to be the same issue that kekman is having. I have a large number of photos on my iPhone, with about half of them being in portrait orientation.
On the Macintosh platform, I can copy the photos off of the phone, put them in albums in iPhoto (which is not performing any actual rotation of the image other than for display), and sync the albums back to the phone with the pictures retaining their portrait or landscape orientation as they did in the camera roll.
On Windows, I copy the photos off the iPhone (either Picasa, Camera wizard, and I've even copied via ssh/scp), put them in folders (without editing the photos in any way), and sync the "albums" back to the phone using iTunes, but this time all photos show up as landscape.
I can't imagine that this was the intended behavior. Why have the iPhone store the orientation (which clearly both it and iPhoto are using to display it properly) if you're just going to ignore it when you sync albums? I really can't understand at all why iTunes would strip the EXIF data that the iPhone itself puts in the JPEG, from both a user and a developer standpoint. I shouldn't have to modify the photos just to get them to display properly as they did before I took them off the phone.
I guess I'm just frustrated that I can't take photos out of my camera roll using my PC and still have them display properly when I sync them back as albums. So I'm currently keeping them all on the phone in the camera roll and it's getting very cluttered.
It's irritating when you're trying to show off the nice expensive piece of kit to your coworkers and they keep asking why it insists on showing your pictures sideways and you have nothing to say other than "it's a bug" :-/
Ok, so now I've really hijacked this thread. I'll just leave it at that and hope for a fix from Apple (do the devs even read this?). Is there some kind of Apple bug reporting/tracking system similar to bugzilla, etc.?
Message was edited by: mpond
Message was edited by: mpond