PhotoLab (Mac) has a menu item to be found in the context menu or under
Image > Orientation > Reset
While this command reverses an orientation change done manually, it cannot reverse an orientation change introduced by importing a settings (.dop) sidecar: I expect the command to set orientation according to the tag as stored in the RAW file in those cases, where there is no trace of an orientation change in the edit history.
I also suspect that the command will not work with DPL (Windows) as it still seems to forget the history at the end or the beginning of a session (with a DPL restart).
Can others please check their PhotoLab behaviour in this respect?
Thanks a lot.
Issue found with both DPL versions 7 and 8 on macOS 14.7.2 on 5K iMac 2019.
Background: DPL (and other apps) don’t record orientation changes like other commands. Neither turn nor flip appear in “Advanced History”. Dommage!
Current workaround is to make DPL import metadata from the file and this resets the image to stored orientation, unless there is an xmp sidecar.
@platypus I cannot be sure that I understand what you are saying here!
So I set the orientation 90 anti clockwise, Parked DxPL and closed DxPL.
While closed I deleted the database, reopened and navigated to the rotated image and did an ‘Orientation’ /‘Reset’ and it went back to the correct orientation, which I suspect is not what you expected.
DxPL(Win) simply seems to hold the ‘History’ in memory so once it has been closed that memory is no more, i.e. it is lost immediately DxPL is closed.
PS:- please remember my settings which may or may not play a part is this
i.e. would my test scenario not take the rotated setting from the xmp sidecar rather than from the DOP.
So I repeated the test but after the clockwise flip I changed the settings to not synchronise the metadata from the xmp sidecar, i.e. it should be taking the metadata from the DOP and the ‘Revert’ still works to return the image to its original orientation.
