I’m looking for help determining why I can’t set the orientation before I save the image. No matter what numerical values I manually assign to the variable “$imageOrientation” the image always saves as landscape. I have portrait photos that I want to save in the original orientation, but they save as landscape. I tried setting the original image orientation and the compressed image orientation, but cannot figure out the syntax, some direction would be very appreciated.

<#

        Name               Value
        ----               -----
        Rotate180FlipXY        0
        RotateNoneFlipNone     0
        Rotate90FlipNone       1
        Rotate270FlipXY        1
        Rotate180FlipNone      2
        RotateNoneFlipXY       2
        Rotate270FlipNone      3
        Rotate90FlipXY         3
        RotateNoneFlipX        4
        Rotate180FlipY         4
        Rotate90FlipX          5
        Rotate270FlipY         5
        Rotate180FlipX         6
        RotateNoneFlipY        6
        Rotate270FlipX         7
        Rotate90FlipY          7

    #>

    $image = [Image]::FromFile("c:tempimage1.jpg");
    $newImageName = "image1b.jpg";
    [int32]$newWidth = [math]::Round($image.Width/3);
    [int32]$newHeight = [math]::Round($image.Height/3);
    $destination_rect = New-Object Rectangle 0, 0, $newWidth, $newHeight;
    $imageOrientation = $image.GetPropertyItem(274).Value[0];
    switch ($imageOrientation)
    {
        { $imageOrientation -eq 0 } { $image.RotateFlip("Rotate180FlipXY"); $image.RotateFlip("RotateNoneFlipNone"); }
        { $imageOrientation -eq 1 } { $image.RotateFlip("Rotate90FlipNone"); $image.RotateFlip("Rotate270FlipXY"); }
        { $imageOrientation -eq 2 } { $image.RotateFlip("Rotate180FlipNone"); $image.RotateFlip("RotateNoneFlipXY"); }
        { $imageOrientation -eq 3 } { $image.RotateFlip("Rotate270FlipNone"); $image.RotateFlip("Rotate90FlipXY"); }
        { $imageOrientation -eq 4 } { $image.RotateFlip("RotateNoneFlipX"); $image.RotateFlip("Rotate180FlipY"); }
        { $imageOrientation -eq 5 } { $image.RotateFlip("Rotate90FlipX"); $image.RotateFlip("Rotate270FlipY"); }
        { $imageOrientation -eq 6 } { $image.RotateFlip("Rotate180FlipX"); $image.RotateFlip("RotateNoneFlipY"); }
        { $imageOrientation -eq 7 } { $image.RotateFlip("Rotate270FlipX"); $image.RotateFlip("Rotate90FlipY"); }
    }

    $destination_image = New-Object Bitmap $newWidth, $newHeight;
    $destination_image.SetResolution($image.HorizontalResolution, $image.VerticalResolution);

    $graphics = [Graphics]::FromImage($destination_image);
    $graphics.CompositingMode = [Drawing2D.CompositingMode]::SourceCopy;
    $graphics.CompositingQuality = [Drawing2D.CompositingQuality]::HighQuality;
    $graphics.InterpolationMode = [Drawing2D.InterpolationMode]::HighQualityBicubic;
    $graphics.SmoothingMode = [Drawing2D.SmoothingMode]::HighQuality;
    $graphics.PixelOffsetMode = [Drawing2D.PixelOffsetMode]::HighQuality;

    $wrapmode = [Imaging.ImageAttributes]::new();
    $wrapmode.SetWrapMode([Drawing2D.WrapMode]::TileFlipXY);

    $graphics.DrawImage($image, $destination_rect, 0, 0, $image.Width, $image.Height, [GraphicsUnit]::Pixel, $wrapmode);

    switch ($imageOrientation)
    {
        { $imageOrientation -eq 0 } { $destination_image.RotateFlip("Rotate180FlipXY"); $destination_image.RotateFlip("RotateNoneFlipNone"); }
        { $imageOrientation -eq 1 } { $destination_image.RotateFlip("Rotate90FlipNone"); $destination_image.RotateFlip("Rotate270FlipXY"); }
        { $imageOrientation -eq 2 } { $destination_image.RotateFlip("Rotate180FlipNone"); $destination_image.RotateFlip("RotateNoneFlipXY"); }
        { $imageOrientation -eq 3 } { $destination_image.RotateFlip("Rotate270FlipNone"); $destination_image.RotateFlip("Rotate90FlipXY"); }
        { $imageOrientation -eq 4 } { $destination_image.RotateFlip("RotateNoneFlipX"); $destination_image.RotateFlip("Rotate180FlipY"); }
        { $imageOrientation -eq 5 } { $destination_image.RotateFlip("Rotate90FlipX"); $destination_image.RotateFlip("Rotate270FlipY"); }
        { $imageOrientation -eq 6 } { $destination_image.RotateFlip("Rotate180FlipX"); $destination_image.RotateFlip("RotateNoneFlipY"); }
        { $imageOrientation -eq 7 } { $destination_image.RotateFlip("Rotate270FlipX"); $destination_image.RotateFlip("Rotate90FlipY"); }
    }
    
    $resizedImageFolder = "c:temp";
    $destination_image.Save((Join-Path $resizedImageFolder $newImageName));