IPhoto slideshows - randomly rotating images.

Hi People, can you help?
I've put photos from my Nikon onto the hard drive and imported some into iPhoto v5. I then rotated the ones needing it, but when I run a slideshow the rotated images sometimes appear correct, but then appear rotated again, sometimes squashed and sometimes the correct aspect. What the heck is going on please?

KB:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Does your Nikon have a auto rotate option? What version of iPhoto are you running? With an auto rotate camera a tag is written to the file to tell the application to show it rotated but the file itself is not. iPhoto 5.0.4 corrected the problem of iPhoto not reading and interpreting that tag properly. However even with 5.0.4 sometime if you are to use one of those files in an external application like Word, etc. it will revert back to the unrotated view as Word does not read the tag.
This may be what you're experiencing, particularly if you're not running 5.0.4. If you are and the files were imported in an earlier version you'd still have the problem. So you may have some of those auto rotated images that were imported before and after you updated to 5.0.4.

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or
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html
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