From 7636a0b1652115f70694ba7736d4c6fd59ea4da7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Thomas <jonathan@openshot.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2021 15:57:41 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Switching to QImageReader for parsing a path to a QImage, and
 allowing the AutoTransform property correctly handle exif metadata (flipping
 and orientation of images)

---
 src/QtImageReader.cpp | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/QtImageReader.cpp b/src/QtImageReader.cpp
index 01b023259..29243ed45 100644
--- a/src/QtImageReader.cpp
+++ b/src/QtImageReader.cpp
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 #include <QtGui/QImage>
 #include <QtGui/QPainter>
 #include <QtGui/QIcon>
+#include <QtGui/QImageReader>
 
 #if USE_RESVG == 1
 	// If defined and found in CMake, utilize the libresvg for parsing
@@ -75,8 +76,12 @@ void QtImageReader::Open()
 
 		if (!loaded) {
 			// Attempt to open file using Qt's build in image processing capabilities
+			// AutoTransform enables exif data to be parsed and auto transform the image
+			// to the correct orientation
 			image = std::make_shared<QImage>();
-            loaded = image->load(path);
+            QImageReader imgReader( path );
+            imgReader.setAutoTransform( true );
+            loaded = imgReader.read(image.get());
 		}
 
 		if (!loaded) {