Keep exif-orientation on import

[Pflichtfeld]

Hi guys,
Problem: upright picture (portrait) of a door. Exif in original jpg is right,top.
I send it to gimp. The door now is shown in landscape, the exif now is changed to top,left.
I'm not sure, but maybe once there was a popup how to threat orientation of origin.
But now this popup is gone and I cannot find the option to change this behaviour.
Any help?

[Ofnuts]

(03-24-2025, 10:44 PM)Pflichtfeld Wrote: Hi guys,
Problem: upright picture (portrait) of a door. Exif in original jpg is right,top.
I send it to gimp. The door now is shown in landscape, the exif now is changed to top,left.
I'm not sure, but maybe once there was a popup how to threat orientation of origin.
But now this popup is gone and I cannot find the option to change this behaviour.
Any help?

What is the exit orientation number?

AFAIK Gimp always exports the image with 1=Top,Left, because this tells how the image should be transformed before being displayed but since Gimp encodes it as displayed there is no transformation necessary.

[Pflichtfeld]

It is changed from 6 to 1.

[CmykStudent]

Pflichtfeld: Hi! If you go to Edit -> Preferences and then choose the "Image Import & Export" option, there will be a dropdown that's labeled as "Metadata Rotation Policy". That should let you choose how the rotation is handled on import.

[Pflichtfeld]

(Yesterday, 12:37 PM)CmykStudent Wrote: Pflichtfeld: Hi! If you go to Edit -> Preferences and then choose the "Image Import & Export" option, there will be a dropdown that's labeled as "Metadata Rotation Policy". That should let you choose how the rotation is handled on import.

Hi CmykStudent. That should be exactly the point I am looking for. Unfortunately there is no dropdown here (GIMP 2.10.38 (Revision 1)):


   

Edit: Thanks so much. I learned, that I was working with an older version. Updated now to 3.02 and now it works like a charm!
Strange, that this option seems not to exist in earlier version.

[CmykStudent]

Pflichtfeld: Glad you got it figured out! And yes, people add new features based on their interest, so it's likely between 2.8 and 3.0 a contributor came along, had the same problem you did, and coded a solution.