Windows 10: Can't rotate photos imported from a flash card

In Windows 7, I would right click and a menu would pop up and allow me to permanently rotate a photo. In Windows 10, I right click and get the same menu. However, the photos won't rotate.

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Rotate a photo in Fresh Paint

How do you rotate a photo after importing it into Fresh Paint? My photo imported sideways.

 

Trouble importing photos with windows 10

Since I installed windows 10 I cannot import photos straight from my sd cards. Card reader is built in my computer and worked before but not now with windows 10. When I insert as sd card, windows ask me to insert a device and make sure it is turned on.
Why can't I import photos straight from my sd cards? I put the sd card back into the camera and did download my photos. Why did I have to use a camera? I just want to import straight from my sd cards.

 

I wonder if the pictures have been imported as read only? The rotate options will be there but are greyed out until you uncheck the read only box in properties.

 

Thanks. I checked the properties and they are not read only. STRANGE: While I was checking the properties, I was able to rotate a few of the photos - then the ability to rotate stopped.

 

What method did you use to import the pictures?

 

Copy from the card directly to a Folder. I've been doing this the same way for years. I just tried it again and it worked for a few photos - then it stopped working. I think the problem is with Windows 10 on my computer. I plan to do a clean install soon and I'm sure this problem will cease. Thanks for the help.

 

You can use old "Windows Photo Viewer" for that.
Windows Photo Viewer - Restore in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

 

I've just tested this on my Win 10 Laptop and the rotate option behaves in exactly the same way as in Win 7 and retains the rotation after rebooting. I think you might have a mouse problem. Try the rotate option using the touchpad! If that works as it should try a different mouse.

 

Thank you for the help!!

 

Nisco
Did you resolve this problem?

 

No - I believe a clean install will solve the problem. It'll probably be weeks before I can get to it. Thanks for asking.

 

Though it's now a few weeks after the original post, I'll state this anyway, in case it's of benefit to someone: Windows Photo Viewer is not a good way to rotate photos. If either the height or the width of the picture being rotated are not exactly divisible by 8, Windows Photo Viewer will re-save the pic in jpg format, meaning you lose picture quality, since jpg is a lossy format. Windows Photo Viewer will warn you the first time that you do this on a Windows installation. If you tick the "In the future, do not show this dialog" checkbox, you'll never see the warning again, and would probably soon have forgotten that it still applies.





Even if your camera's pics all have heights and widths divisible by 8 [for all the pic sizes selectable in the camera's settings], if you crop and save a pic, whether that pic be from your camera or downloaded from the internet, the saved pic might not have height and width cleanly divisible by 8. So you would lose picture definition if you rotated it.

The preferred solution for many of us is to simply never use Windows Photo Viewer to rotate pics. But if it's the default picfile viewer, it's easy to accidentally click the rotate buttons. So we install a third party freeware program of choice as the default photo viewer. I use Irfanview, which has a Jpg Lossless Rotation feature. Irfanview has both lossless and lossy rotation options, and all programs have a learning curve, so if you adopt this solution be sure to properly study the program help. If you use Irfanview, be sure to download and run the plugins installer after running the main program installer. Also study the program's lossless rotation options, as some of them can remove picture file metadata you'd probably prefer to keep, if not set the way you want.

These webpages describe some of the issues I've mentioned:
https://www.raymond.cc/blog/rotating-photos-or-pictures-in-windows-photo-viewer-causes-quality-loss
Lossless rotation of JPEG images - Better JPEG

This Wikipedia table mentions 'JPEG lossless rotate' in the 'Other functions' column for those programs that are capable of it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compar..._and_licensing

Happy rotating!