Front Camera/Self Portrait photos flipping - NO option to reverse

I know this has been discussed before and "answers" to this question are readily available via a google search, but here's the issue.

Sprint Galaxy S3 obviously. Latest update. Stock rooted.

When I access the camera and change it to the front camera/self-portait and take a photo, it flips it. Suggestions online insinuate there is an option on the 'cogwheel' to disable or reverse "Auto Flip Picture" or something similar.

When I select the cogwheel and the front camera is enabled, the options are as follows:

- Edit Shortcuts
- Burst shot (grayed out)
- GPS tag
- Self-portrait (on obviously)
- Flash (grayed out)
- Shooting mode (single shot)
- Effects (no effect)
- Scene Mode (grayed out)
- Exposure Value (0)
- Focus Mode (grayed out)
- Timer (off)
- Resolution
- White Balance
- ISO (grayed)
- Metering (grayed)
- Auto contrast (grayed)
- Guidelines
- Auto share shot
- Anti-shake
- Contextual Filename
- Image Quality
- Storage
- Reset


How exactly do I obtain this 'option' to reverse the 'auto flip picture'? It is extremely annoying to have to save the picture, upload it to a PC or other image editing app and manually flip it that way.

PS: Yes, the phone is rooted (same procedure used as described on this forum) - but it is STOCK rooted. This is my only question on whether or not this may 'disable' or 'remove' that as an option...but that wouldn't make sense, why would rooting a phone eliminate a setting from a camera app? Problem has persisted from the older version to the newest version 4.1.2

does anyone know?!

The internet has failed me!

There doesn't appear to be any way to do it in the camera app. Many photo editing programs, though, offer the ability to flip an image. I haven't looked at any of the Android ones, but I suspect some of them provide this ability.