DG Site Updates: Sideways photos, 0 by hcmcdole

hcmcdole wrote:
Most of the sideways and upside down pictures are from smart phones and tablets (iPad). When you shoot a picture on these devices the device knows the orientation that the picture was taken but not the traditional computers/servers. So everything looks hunky-dory to them until they post to the sites that have for the last umpteen years been geared to computers (desktops and laptops). Sure it is possible to post a sideways picture taken from a camera but most folks know how to orient them so they appear correct on their screen so when they do post it is correct for everybody. On a Windows machine, right click on the photo and click rotate clockwise or rotate counter clockwise is one way.

The tablet and phone group thinks there is something wrong with the site and not their device. I do believe there is an additional piece of information on each of the pictures taken with the new generation phone camera/tablet camera devices so they always orient the picture correctly on the device no matter how they turn their device. So there are two solutions: they fix the orientation as it would appear on a computer screen before posting or the picture with the extra information embedded in it is handled by the web server. The easiest way I know is to connect my phone to my computer and import the photos, then orient them before posting.

Here are two photos from my phone that I imported, rotated image of the twin oak to portrait, and landscape of some florist mums (no rotation).

Hmm, the link I provided came out blank so I edited to remove the link.

This message was edited Apr 11, 2014 3:50 PM