[mbuster]

How do I verify orientation of photos attached from my phone before posting or change it once its posted?

 

[Cricket]

How do I verify orientation of photos attached from my phone before posting or change it once its posted?

Question: Why is my picture loading sideways?
Answer: Because that's how you held your phone when you took the shot.

Reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exif

Don't worry you don't have to read that article, kudos if you do. EXIF Data is basically the config information of a photo. On modern cameras it can give you the dimensions, the geotags of where and when it was taken, and most relevantly the ORIENTATION.

What does this mean for us:

Simply put, the forums don't read EXIF properly; like at all, ever. So when you took that photo of your bike at that really fancy dutch angle or with your IPhone 7+ on its side so you could truly take in the magnitude of that SICK flame job on your tricked out mini-van the forum doesn't notice. It will show that photo upright based on where the top of your phone is.

We need to edit the orientation of our photos manually. This means with software like Paint or Photoshop, not just turning their phone because the screen auto-fixes.

Hope that helps a little.

 

[mbuster]

Sounds good, but when I turn my phone sideways, my picture when viewed on my phone appears landscaped and not portrait. It was taken and appears in portrait orientation on my phone and on my laptop. I'll post new pictures just taken in both orientations from my phone.

I know when I upload pics from my phone onto a Windows machine, I have to rotate my pictures on the windows machine to have the right side up.

 

[mbuster]

First pic taken in portrait (phone up and down) and the second in landscape (phone sideways)

 

[mbuster]

Looks like both are screwy. Maybe something in phone settings can fix it.

 

[VeeJay]

Your photos (these and the first one) are in correct orientation when viewed through "manage attachments" (advance edit, scroll down to attachments).

Weird.

 

[Bounty]

If I'm not mistaken...phone photos are transferred in portrait mode on Android in EXIF...but iPhones orient whichever way you shoot them.

 

[mbuster]

I guess I'll just find an easy way to attach from the laptop. Have to save a pic from photo library as a file on my desktop then attach. Trying to attach from photo library tries to attach the whole photo folder. So much for thinking it was just my old laptop, the new one does the same.

 

[Admin]

Hey guys,

We understand that this is an inconvenience especially when you want to post directly from your phone if you've taken some nice (landscape) pics, but for the time being either take your pictures upright (portrait mode) or using a program/application on your PC to save your pics in the landscape orientation then saving it before uploading it in your posts. It's a few hoops to jump through but it'll get the results you want.

Sorry about that!

-Natalie

 

[mbuster]

My iPhone's portrait taken pictures are posting sideways. Landscape taken pictures are posting upside-down.

 

[Admin]

As per Cricket's and Natalie's responses, have you uploaded them to your computer and re-orientated them (then resaved) through an editor program?

This will ensure the proper orientation is set as forums cannot read Exif data.

- JB

 

[mbuster]

They appear fine on my phone and my Mac. Sending them from my phone to a Windows machine, they look like they post on the forum. Using the Mac to post is kind of a pain, not being able to pick a pic out of the photo library as an attachment. I may have to see what happens if I copy/paste instead of attach. I will learn to deal with it or my photos will always be head turners.

 

[Bounty]

I will learn to deal with it or my photos will always be head turners.

Speaking for the old folks here...no, they won't! :biggrin:

 

[mbuster]

Speaking for the old folks here...no, they won't! :biggrin:

LMAO. Your right, probably not.

 

[Admin]

I would reset the phones calibration in the settings. If you are still getting the same issue then you can open your pictures in an editor on your computer and manually rotate them. If you use an editor on your phone, you may need to crop off a couple pixels, or save a new name so that a change is registered.

You can also use photo hosts like Photobucket, etc, that have the software needed to read the coding on the images from the phones.

Niall