I've been admiring some photos posted by member Rembo11, who notes that he uses a program called Postworkshop. I checked out their website

http://postworkshop.net/ 

& the program looked interesting to me. I saw that they offer a Basic edition (800x800 max output resolution & limited number of styles) for free, so I downloaded it. I ran into a problem with it right off the bat & none of their tutorials seemed to address it. I would ask Rembo11, but he is Hungarian with limited English & I think he would probably have trouble understanding my problem, so I'm hoping some other photographer here has used the program & can help me.

When I load a photo, it doesn't recognize that it is portrait format & loads it rotated 90 degrees (landscape). There are some Image Properties controls in the program for rotating the image, but when I apply it, it stretches the image in a weird way & leaves white bands on the sides (kind of like a 4:3 tv image on a widescreen). I've tried all kinds of things to make this work & can't get past it. Either I'm missing something really obvious or something well hidden. Can anybody help me with this?

I do not know of at and do not use it,but I am sure someone on Renderosity will be of help.

God Bless.

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BIPOLARTWO,

Thanks, but as I mentioned, I checked the tutorials (& the product forum) & couldn't find the answer to my problem. I was hoping someone here had used the product & would have the answer already, but no such luck. Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don't...

If you load the image directly from your camera that was shot in portrait orientation, you see it as a portrait, but the image is still saved as a landscape image so it will load in psw as such, a landscape image. 

Here's how I've managed to rotate an image in pws.  You've already managed to rotate it and you get those two white bands on each side so I won't repeat those steps.  Thing is psw rotates the image, not the canvas...  Once you've rotated it and you have those two white bands on each side, go to  Render Settings and click on the Canvas set-up tab.  Where there's canvas size, click on the button "change" .  Uncheck the Keep proportional box and invert the size of your image (if your image was 1000x500, put in 500X1000).  Once this is done, most likely your image won't be positioned properly on the canvas, you will need to drag it in the center so that the image fills all the canvas, to do this, click and hold to drag it. 

There may be an easier way of doing this, I'm very far from being an expert with pws, but if this is really the only way, you're probably better off rotating your image in photoshop or some other program where it's much simpler, save it, and then bring it in to psw to add whatever effect you want to add to it.

Lucie,

Thanks very much for providing this answer - it worked just as you described. I do find it very disappointing that PWS is incapable of recognizing the orientation of photos (when Photoshop, Picasa & most other apps have no problem whatsoever with it) & that you have to jump through these hoops just to get your photo oriented correctly. I'm also finding the PWS interface to be pretty quirky & non-intuitive, though I guess I could get used to it with some practice. I'm going to play with it a little more, but after this rough start, I'm not sure the results would be worth the effort. I work with photo editing & graphics software of various kinds because I enjoy it, not as a livelihood, so why fight with an uncooperative program?

I agree with you, a lot could still be done to improve and add to the software.  I like some of the effects that we can get with it, but I also find it a bit of a pain to use.  Most of my editing I wil do in photoshop usually and only use postworkshop as a plugin in ps when I want to get certain effects, can't say I use it an awful lot though.