Sometimes your images will not be at the correct orientation for viewing. This happens most often when you use a digital camera in portrait mode (i.e. with the camera held vertically). Usually it is necessary to load the images into a paint program, rotate them, and save them back out. In the case of JPEG images, this will result in a slight loss of picture quality.
PMIO lets you avoid this by allowing you to rotate the thumbnails. The associated images will then open with the correct orientation in the Internal Viewer. To rotate thumbnails, select them and press Alt/R, or right-click on them and select Rotate from the context menu.
Images rotated in this way are not physically altered; PMIO just rotates them before using them in functions such as slideshow, Web Page Wizard and the Internal Viewer.
Rotation Direction
You can set the rotation direction (clockwise or anti-clockwise) by choosing Set Rotation Direction from the Tools menu.
Note: A future version of PMIO should contain a rotation feature that would work by modifying certain values inside the JPEG files. This would permanently rotate the images but without any loss of quality.
- Bug:
- After telling PMIO to rotate thumbnails, you must wait a few seconds for the thumbnail imagery to be recreated before you can ask PMIO to rotate them again. If you do not wait, PMIO will become confused and display the thumbnails at the wrong orientation.
