wrong rotation on iPad 2 photos

I had the same problem, but thought it was strange because some of my old photos were being displayed on my iPad with the corrected orientation as shown/corrected on my PC, however some of the recent photos I had taken would only show as landscape on the iPad even though rotated and set to Portrait on my PC.

I have always used plain old Microsoft Picture Manager (MPM) to sort and correct the display of my photos and then Photoshop to make and changes if needed, I remembered that somewhere along the line recently my laptop had started using Windows Photo Gallery to open my pics instead. I am not sure why it had changed, probably something I had clicked on or agreed to by mistake along the way, and I regulary had to right click a photo to select Open with Microsoft Picture Manager to modify it with tools I was familair with, but this made me wonder if this was something to do with why some pics from a recent holiday were displaying correct and some from the same holiday and same camera where wrong.

I have tried opening them again in MPM and re rotating then re-saving but it doesn't recognise any changes so this didnt work. I reopened in Windows Photo Gallery (WPG), rotated again, resaved and re synched and yes this worked, but as I prefer MPM I tried other ways to re save in this program and found that if I opened the Folder in Windows Explorer, set the files set to display as Medium icons from the Views option on the Toolbar, then right clicked each photo that displayed wrong on the iPad, even if it was correct on the PC, then selected Rotate Clockwise or Counter Clockwise from the Right Click menu then I re synched my iPad and they are all now fine. You can eve use the multiple select tools of shift + click or Ctrl + click to modify lots of pics in one go.

So it has got to be to do with the program used to rotate and save in the first place!

Hope this helps someone, it has certainly made my day!

Hi there. I had the same problem with an Apple TV. I'd used Windows 7 Picture Manager to rotate the images but they remained unrotated when displaying as the screen saver on the ATV.

I suspect that this problem is related to the MS Picture Manager not properly saving tags into the JPG image. I resolved the problem using Windows Live Photos Gallery (free download).

Open the photos using this program, then click on the "Edit, organize and share" button. If you want to fix multiple of your photos from the folder use ALT-A or Ctrl-Click the ones you want to fix.

Under the "Edit" menu, you'll see an icon for "Auto adjust" on the ribbon bar. Click the down arrow below it to change Settings. Check only the item called "Straighten". (Note: I only checked this because I did not really to adjust the color, exposure, etc. However, if you want to do all of them, go ahead).

Live Photos Gallery will then pass through the selected items. The next time you put them on the iPad / ATV they should be OK. It seemed to work for me.

Good luck!

PS. You can do a similar operation with the Picasa software from Google, but I thought it was obnoxious the way Picasa insisted on cataloging every image on my entire hard drive.