Weird Rotation issue with HEIF format in Affinity Photo 2

[Brandmill Studio]

Greetings,

Using Affinity Photo 2 to edit Studio photography, i ran into this issue with Affinity Photo 2.

Affinity Photo 2 seens to swap Width/Height canvas boundries.

Attached:

- Issue with HEIF.png (The issue in Affinity Photo 2)
- DSC00210.HIF (Original Photo)
- METADATA.txt (Original Photo Metadata)
- Windows HEIF - Correct.png  (As it appears, Windows reads it correctly so it seems not to be an issue with the file?)

Looking forward to having this fixed as currently Affinity Photo 2 now cannot be used todo our editing.

 

 

HEIF issue in Affinity Photo 2.zip

[David in Яuislip]

ExifTool shows:
Meta Image Size       : 4240x2832
Full Image Size       : 4240x2832
Camera Orientation    : Rotate 90 CW
Exif Image Width      : 4240
Exif Image Height     : 2832
Rotation              : Rotate 90 CW
Image Width           : 4240
Image Height          : 2832
Image Spatial Extent  : 4240x2832
Image Size            : 4240x2832

Your file works fine with gmic and imagemagick so it looks like a Photo glitsch
I wonder if the Rotate 90 CW is confusing Photo. I've reset that with
exiftool DSC00210.HIF -Rotation="Normal"
and it's in the attached zip. I can't check it as I use Photo V1. Probably a waste of time but you never know. 

DSC00210-rot.zip

[Brandmill Studio]

Thanks, thats a good work around for now. Its most certainly a bug in Photo v2. I hope the Affinity Team notices this post and fixed it. I think its a small bug.

[David in Яuislip]

Glad it worked. Without teaching you to suck eggs, you can use exiftool's batch facility to convert a whole folder very quickly. Open a command prompt in the folder and run
exiftool -rotation="Normal" .
the dot at the end means the current folder so all files will be processed, it's much quicker than *.hif
e.g.
exiftool -rotation .
======== ./DSC00210.HEIC
Rotation                        : Rotate 90 CW
======== ./DSC00210.HIF
Rotation                        : Rotate 90 CW
======== ./DSC00211.HIF
Rotation                        : Rotate 90 CW
======== ./DSC00212.HIF
Rotation                        : Rotate 90 CW
========
    1 directories scanned
    5 image files read

exiftool -rotation="Normal" .
    1 directories scanned
    4 image files updated

exiftool -rotation .
======== ./DSC00210.HEIC
Rotation                        : Horizontal (Normal)
======== ./DSC00210.HIF
Rotation                        : Horizontal (Normal)
======== ./DSC00211.HIF
Rotation                        : Horizontal (Normal)
======== ./DSC00212.HIF
Rotation                        : Horizontal (Normal)

I would report the issue in the bugs forum with a reference back to this post
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/128-v2-bugs-found-on-windows/
 

[Brandmill Studio]

Thats awesome feedback! Thanks a lot 💯!

[stokerg]

Hi @Brandmill Studio,

This is a known bug and that is logged with the Developers.

The bug report has been updated with a link back to this thread so the Affinity Info Bot can update here when it has been resolved  

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "Rotation EXIF disregarded in imported HEIF" (REF: AF-5531) has been fixed by the developers in the latest beta build (2.6.0.3078). The fix is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Affinity Info Bot to notify us.