3 Replies Latest reply: Aug 31, 2010 1:29 PM by CJ Cob RSS

    PS elements 6 - wrong photo orientation when printing

    cswalsh Community Member

      PS Elements 6 on Windows XP.  Trying to print a 4x6 photo to an Epson PictureMate. On printing, PSE won't print full 4x6 page, and rotates it to the opposite direction of the printer settings.

       

      Photo was shot, corrected and cropped in landscape orientation.  When picturemate is set to Portrait, naturally PSE wants to print the photo on just the upper half of the page.  If I change printer orientation to landscape, PSE rotates photo 90 degrees to print on the left half of the screen, (see screenshot below)

       

      Once exported, the photo it prints fine, as a full page 4x6, via Windows Print Utility, but I'd prefer to not have to make 2 copies of every photo I want to print. Seems to be some miscommunication between PSE and printer.

       

      Has anyone else had this problem?   Google & forum searches were inconclusive.

        • 1. Re: PS elements 6 - wrong photo orientation when printing
          captaincranky Community Member

          Just for kicks try printing directly from the editor, see if that makes a difference.

          • 2. Re: PS elements 6 - wrong photo orientation when printing
            ~V Adobe Employee

            Check for the Orientation tag embedded in your photo metadata. Is it the reason? To check that

            select the photo and go to metadata pane in properties window(Alt+Enter). You s

            ee that property in Exif property.

             

            ~V

            • 3. Re: PS elements 6 - wrong photo orientation when printing
              CJ Cob

              Yes, I experienced this problem with 4x6 prints.  I was unable to resolve the issue regardless of what settings I used.  I didn't try to print, as the preview did not look right, and gave up.  Ended up using PMB program that came with my camera to print on 4x6 prints.  I have Adobe configured as it's external editor and simply save the edited photo from PSE6 and it shows up in PMB.  Go back to PMB, find it and print it without issue.  Sad, but true.  It's a good thing I got PSE6 with my printer, as I would not have been happy spending money on it.  I've seen beta freeware that works better in the basic stuff, but none really as good as Adobe's photo edit results (good algorthyms/filters).  I would like to see just a "Photography" version without all the graphic artists crap.  Remember "Elements" is basically a try before you buy the full version.  If they made it too good, you would not want to get rid of it and upgrade to hopefully the "better" fully sized program LOL.  The photo editing quality was already good before Adobe aquired the program, and since, they have repackaged them in "upgraded" GUI's.  If you ditch the GUI of Adobe, and use the editing like myself with PMB, it works okay.  What you will find is that because it's photography, software created for use is disfunctional in one way or another for every program and you have to purchase several, if not many, programs to achieve good results; uiltizing aspects of each of these programs that the other can not or will not do properly.  It's all marketing and yes it's a scam to make as much money off a person's hobby to take and make quality photos, and print/publish, and business is good... greed is good

              (Wall Street)

               

              Message was edited by: CJ Cob