Will Lightroom rotate pics to their original orientation?

[cobright]

I'm sure there is a lightroom forum somewhere with this answer but I end up lost in discussions about all Lightroom can do when I use just a small bit of it (working on that).

Anyway, my camera records the orientation of the pic but I still end up sorting through them all and flipping some clockwise and some anti-clockwise. Yeah, I know it's a bit odd to have the camera flipped to both sides. Let's say I put it on the tripod backwards or something and flipping the camera over to portrait went the 'other way' than I do when I hold by hand.

So is there something magic in Lightroom that will rotate and save them so up is up?

Thnx in advance.

 

[havoc315]

Have never needed to rotate a picture in lightroom... May depend on the compatibility with the camera, but it always knows the difference between portrait and landscape.
And lightroom 5 even has a nice little feature to correct perspective, if you weren't totally level.

 

[Daisy14'sDH]

Yes it will rotate it Ctrl & [ or Ctrl & ]

 

[cobright]

Yes it will rotate it Ctrl & [ or Ctrl & ]

I mean can it process a batch of 5000+ pics and flip them the proper way based on the metadata?

I can go through and turn them one at a time. Windows 7 (of all things) can tell which way is up and displays them correctly in their folder. But lightroom imports the pics and leaves them on their side.

Frustrating.

 

[Daisy14'sDH]

Don't use Windows to rotate, everytime it does it strips a little data

http://petapixel.com/2012/08/14/why-you-should-always-rotate-original-jpeg-photos-losslessly/

 

[photo_chick]

Isn't there an option to auto rotate on import?

I too hold the camera different ways. Have even been known to hold it upside down. Lightroom always automatically rotates the images for me on import. I assumed it was an option but I've never had to turn it on.

 

[cobright]

Isn't there an option to auto rotate on import?

I too hold the camera different ways. Have even been known to hold it upside down. Lightroom always automatically rotates the images for me on import. I assumed it was an option but I've never had to turn it on.

I found it. There are two auto-rotate settings built into the camera; one just flips the pic for playback on the camera and the other tells computer to flip it. Sorry, I'm really new to Canon's UI and it doesn't go out of its way to resemble the old film camera settings like Nikon kinda does.