I have recently noticed that the exif tags for orientation are not fully supported in jAlbum. In particular, the reflected codes are not supported,

The exif orientation codes are numbered 1 to 8, with 1, 3, 6 and 8 being cardinal rotations (0, 90, 180 and 270 degrees). These are supported by jAlbum. The remaining codes 2, 4, 5 and 7 are reflections of those rotations but these are not supported by jAlbum (although they are supported by Windows 10 FileExplorer, Windows "Paint" & Adobe Photoshop).

As an example I have attached files O1.jpg, O2.jpg, O4.jpg, O5.jpg and O7.jpg, which should all appear as an upright, unreflected 'F' providing the embedded exif rotation codes are correctly interpreted. However, although those files all appear correctly in Windows 10 FileExplorer, Paint and Photoshop, only O1.jpg is correctly interpreted by jAlbum v23.1,

I know that you can manually adjust the rotation and reflection of individual images within jAlbum, but it may not always be apparent that a particular image should in fact be rotated, so if jAlbum could be updated to reflect the exif orientation flag correctly I feel it would be a great advantage.

I've never encountered such a file "in the wild," but I've seen them in one particular spot. One of the primary school teachers (from one of the Belgian or Dutch schools - I don't recall which) often posted online albums with "flipped" images. It was easy to tell because the kids often wear shirts or hoodies with text on them, and the text was reversed:

NIKE

I was puzzled by it - I don't know how I could persuade my DSLR or my phone to produce such images!

I haven't seen it in the last year or more, however, so whatever that teacher was doing, he or she has fixed it.

Interesting. I don't have a tablet, but on my aging Galaxy S7, the preview of a selfie is flipped, but the saved image is shown in the correct orientation. There is a setting to change that, but "save as previewed" isn't the default.

Please try doing a core update (Tools->External tools->jAlbum core update) and restart jAlbum when prompted. It should now handle flipped images too (although rotating them currently feels counter-intuitive).

I haven't implemented a flip button yet, but if you wish to flip the currently selected image, then open the system console and issue (Groovy) :

selected.orientation = selected.orientation.flipped()

Impressed by the swift resolution of this update request.
Great work jAlbum