Why does Lightroom show a portrait photo correctly in Library but squish or rotate it in Develop?
Asked 12/30/2018
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In Lightroom, one of my portrait-oriented photos looks correct in the Library module, but when I switch to Develop it appears rotated and squished as if Lightroom is reading the orientation differently. How can I fix this mismatch between Library and Develop?
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I've seen a bug occasionally where LR's preview JPEG gets out of sync with the actual rotation of an image (which is used in RAW). Usually you can rotate the photo and then rotate it back, and it will fix the problem.
If that doesn't fix the problem, then you've found a bug in the way that particular camera writes out its EXIF tags (or perhaps a bug in the way the Lightroom app interprets those tags). If so, you should report it to Adobe and hope that they eventually fix it.
In the meantime, you can probably use exiftool or some other similar tool to tweak the EXIF image rotation metadata so that LR will do the right thing, though I couldn't tell you precisely what to change off the top of my head without seeing what tags your camera wrote out in its files (and maybe not even then).
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This is usually caused by Lightroom using different orientation information for the preview versus the raw file. Library may be showing a cached preview JPEG, while Develop is reading the image data and EXIF orientation metadata.
Try these fixes:
- Rotate the photo, then rotate it back. This can force Lightroom to resync the orientation.
- In Lightroom, right-click the thumbnail and choose Metadata > Read Metadata From File. That often refreshes the orientation data and fixes the mismatch.
If neither works, the file’s EXIF orientation tags may be incorrect or Lightroom may be misreading them for that specific camera/file. In that case, updating or correcting the EXIF metadata with a tool like ExifTool may help, and it’s worth reporting the issue to Adobe as a bug.
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