I know, I know, the module's basic features aren't even in place yet. But this would be a super useful feature, and probably quite easy to implement, since all the necessary image manipulation functions are already there in Drupal/PHP.

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scroogie’s picture

Mhm, perhaps we could put that as an action in the manage images screen.

colemanw’s picture

Category: feature » bug
Priority: Minor » Normal

In this decade, people expect their software to be pretty smart. Reading EXIF data and rotating the picture appropriately is what most users expect to be happening transparently. The fact that this isn't being done, and that there isn't even a rotate button anywhere for you to do it manually... from a developer's POV, it's a missing feature. From the user's POV, it's a bug.

dbeall’s picture

I don't see any bugs here, just feature requests.. 'would be handy' is not a bug.

I just don't get the rotating thing and don't expect any gallery to rotate a photo, what for? It may have some decorative purpose for a few people. You can use imagecache actions to rotate gallery photos.

The EXIF is a feature request and is nice for photography web sites, but most people don't use or require it..
I can see having EXIF support capabilities added as an additional feature.

justintime’s picture

Category: bug » feature
Status: Active » Postponed

While I can appreciate your point, I can prove you wrong. This is a feature request. A bug report (taken from here) is:

Bug Reports are for situations where the software does not work as was intended by the programmer.

Image editing is not something this module has ever, and likely will ever purport to do. There's plenty of smart software already out there that does this.

I do hope to offer EXIF integration at some point, but I have way more work to do than I have time so it will likely be some time before that is implemented.

colemanw’s picture

I appreciate your responses, both of you.
I'm not sure what to do for an image gallery solution for my school's site, though. I have a bunch of teachers and staff who take photos, and we need those photos to go into online albums, and also be available to be embedded into pages and blog entries.
Node gallery works fine for all of this, except for the "upload" part.
These teachers, etc are not computer geeks and they expect software to be easy to use. When they see that they have to upload images one-at-a-time (and no more than 5 at once to avoid php timeout), they call it clunky. When they have no option to rotate the sideways photos, they call it unusable. When they double-click the photo on their mac, open it in Preview, click the rotate button, hit save, and then spend 2 minutes waiting for it to upload yet again, only to find that it is still sideways (Apple rotates JPEGS in the EXIF, not by actually rotating the pixels and re-saving), they just refuse to waste any more time on it.
A direct quote: "I'll upload my pictures to Facebook. If you want them on our website, get 'em from there."

I really don't know what to do. What I'm hearing you say is that this sort of user-friendlyness just isn't in the spec for node-gallery. Is there something else you would recommend?

dbeall’s picture

well, you might have a look at Gallery2 if that will fill the requirements out of the box better than node_gallery. There is a gallery2 integration module. http://drupal.org/project/gallery

edit.. gallery2 has webdav and other publish-to-web functions to help the technically disabled (facebook) users.

justintime’s picture

Status: Postponed » Closed (duplicate)

Just a note to check out #998808: Rotate images on Manage images tab. Marking this as a dupe of that since the other issue has a patch.