Saving a UIImage / Orientation issues

[dogsplayingpoker]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to write an app that uses images retrieved from the UIImagePickerController. These images may be fairly large. I would like to manipulate them and then be able to save them back to the photo album with UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum. My problem is that when I run the following code on a photo taken in portrait mode, the resulting saved image comes out sideways and distorted. If the source image is landscape, the resulting saved image is perfect. What am I missing here?

    // let's assume workImage is a UIImageView that has an image loaded in it
    int w = workImage.image.size.width;
    int h = workImage.image.size.height;
    CGColorSpaceRef colorSpace = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB();
    
    CGContextRef context = CGBitmapContextCreate(NULL, w, h, 8, 4 * w, colorSpace, kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedFirst);
    
    // draw the Master image on the context
    CGContextDrawImage(context, CGRectMake(0, 0, w, h), workImage.image.CGImage);

    // do other manipulation/drawing to the context here
    // ...
    // ...

    // Create the image to save
    CGImageRef imageRef = CGBitmapContextCreateImage(context);
    UIImage *saveImage = [[UIImage alloc] initWithCGImage:imageRef];
    
    // close up the context
    CGContextRelease(context);
    CGColorSpaceRelease(colorSpace);
        
    // save the image
    UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum(saveImage, nil, nil, nil); 
    
    // release the saveImage
    [saveImage release];

One more thing, I checked out the imageOrientation of the returned image and it's always UIImageOrientationUp in both cases.