Uploading Pictures

You need to upload them to somewhere. Flickr, imgur, the forum, etc.

ok cheers

Photobucket is good but a slow website, I use Flickr although they keep updating it to be more and more annoying to use.

imgur is the easiest by far, doesn't require an account and is simple to use.

You have to copy the BBCode at the right side of the image:

Looks like this:

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Hi Chaps - never had any dramas uploading pics till recently... I upload my pics to flickr and then grab the code to get 'em on here - recently my pics have been uploading on here upside down or sideways. They look fine on the ipad and iPhone but on the desktop are all over the shop... (right way around on flickr too). Any ideas?

You have to copy the BBCode at the right side of the image

Actually you could have copy and pasted any of those codes except for Image Link (but then, you could copy that and press the Image button here to create the Markdown).

Interesting... we do nothing with your photos, we basically just upload them to file storage.

But... photo EXIF and meta data can contain an orientation artifact that describes that the photo was taken whilst the camera was rotated 90' anti-clockwise. In those cases the photo is correct in that it's taken on the side, and it should be displayed on the side... but correct is relative, and your view is that you want the photo orientation to be applied... if it was taken 90' rotated, then when display it should be 90' rotated.

Effectively some devices and apps are doing this automatically... reading the meta-data and auto-rotating the image. And some are not... they're just displaying the image.

The only way to be 100% sure that the photo is showing in a certain orientation is to use a graphics programme and to explicitly save the file rotated the right way. As then all programmes and apps would show it consistently. And dumb things (like Microcosm just uploading the file to storage) would be fine.

OK - that sounds way beyond my basic level of computer literacy... I think I understand parts of your post but the thin is one particular picture here: http://www.lfgss.com/comments/11756475/
was taken on a iPhone in portrait format - uploaded on to Flickr where it remains in portrait format, but as you can see switches to landscape once uploaded here - why would the exif data or software interpreting it get confused across the different platforms..? Again - looks fine on iPad and phone just on desk top is screwed up. (I had a similar problem in current projects where someone asked me how life was in Australia - pic looked fine to me but on desktop was upside down).

This is one of those mysteries - c'est la vie - sounds to me like a flickr prob.

Alright... basics.

When you take a photo, the bottom of the photo is down. Down is actually the bottom of the camera.

So when you turn your camera (your phone) sideways to take a photo... down is now to the side. The bottom of your camera is pointing left or right, not down.

Apple store a bit of info in the photo so that it can fix this when it displays the photo. The info says "The camera was turned to the side.".

When Apple displays the photo, the bits of the phone that deals with photos looks for that bit of info and says "If the camera was turned to the side, rotate the image when we display it.".

Flickr also does this, but only when you upload the file to them.

A lot... and I mean a hell of a lot... of software does not do this.

And this includes desktop web browsers.

In something like Chrome, when you give it an image that has "The camera was turned to the side"... Chrome just looks blankly at it, and then just says "The bottom of the camera is bottom... just put the photo on the page already".

Note that the desktop browser did not rotate the image according to how you took the image.

As some (very) large number of things will just ignore that extra bit of information, there is only one way to be sure everyone always views the file the right way: Rotate the image yourself.

If you edit the image and set the rotation, and save it. You're disconnecting a bit of the knowledge about which way the camera was rotated, and you're explicitly saying "This is the bottom of the photo.".

Nothing can get confused by that. And so your photos will always be the right way.

Bollox - my bad, my bad... I thought I'd checked everything and was about (did, now editing) to tell you I knew all the above - but then I went on to flickr and checked the Exif - it was rotated Clock-wise 90 degs..
sorry for being a dick.

@Velocio
didn't see this thread when posting up my previous query in bugs thread...

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