Photos sideways/upside-down

[JAS_OH1]

I am 100% phone here.

I'm on my phone the majority of the time, but right now I am at my desk on my desktop. It just depends on what I am doing. Right now I am doing some online banking, surfing job boards, and looking at my stock portfolio. I am sitting at my desk because my phone is plugged in on my nightstand. Sometimes I am working and I hate writing narratives on my phone for reports since I am a super fast typist on a keyboard but not so fast on my phone. What would take me 30 minutes or more on my phone can be done in 10 minutes on my desktop. Anyway, as far as photos go, it's obviously easier to upload from the phone photo gallery directly to the site. When I am writing up recipes, however, I like to look at it on a large monitor and gain, it's easier to type, so most of the time these days I will send the photos to myself via email and download them on my desktop. I usually just do all my editing on my phone though, I think it's easier.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

MicroSoft - and likely others - decided they knew more about life than users. so when using/viewing using stuff like "File Explorer" - images would 'auto rotate' and appear "right" on your computer display. but, the images were not 'right' - so when 'uploaded' various software packages would read/honor/use the header data to display 'on the Forum' in the orientation as per header data.
yep. didn't always work.

and . . . in everyone's defense . . . if you clicked on a pix, it display one way.... if you looked at the pix in 'File explorer' it (may) appear differently. a click on 'Rotate Left' or 'Rotate Right' would fix it.

but heh serious

Why are you blaiming Microsoft when Android is Linux?

Plus files do not actually need a file extension to identify what they are in all Microsoft platforms. It was needed on DOS and FAT, but not NTFS. As you say, the details for the file type are in the header (anyone interested just looking search on "Files Magic Number" ). That is why Linux does not need to use file extensions. MS uses them to match icons, nothing more in NTFS. I'm not sure on the position with ReFS and its various versions. I think we're up to v3 now on that one.

I'm currently doing a disk forensics course carving files out of the 0s and 1s off a hard drive with no functioning OS.

Anyhow, the specific issues I am referring to is an Android phone issue that increased significantly in frequency with the August Andriod update. For whatever reason, the orientation information has been more wrong than normal.

Any of the moderators will confirm that in the last month, we have had significantly more incorrect orientations of images than the usual low level we deal with.

 

[Barriehie]

Why are you blaiming Microsoft when Android is Linux?

Plus files do not actually need a file extension to identify what they are in all Microsoft platforms. It was needed on DOS and FAT, but not NTFS. As you say, the details for the file type are in the header (anyone interested just looking search on "Files Magic Number" ). That is why Linux does not need to use file extensions. MS uses them to match icons, nothing more in NTFS. I'm not sure on the position with ReFS and its various versions. I think we're up to v3 now on that one.

I'm currently doing a disk forensics course carving files out of the 0s and 1s off a hard drive with no functioning OS.

Anyhow, the specific issues I am referring to is an Android phone issue that increased significantly in frequency with the August Andriod update. For whatever reason, the orientation information has been more wrong than normal.

Any of the moderators will confirm that in the last month, we have had significantly more incorrect orientations of images than the usual low level we deal with.

Is there anything phone users can do to preempt an increased load on the mods? I realize the scope of technical skills across the site userbase goes probably from zilch to 100 but if there's any window of opportunity I think we should help.

Whether we're somehow checking orientation or fixing it, whatever we can do prior to an upload.

Thank you SatNavSaysStraightOn

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Is there anything phone users can do to preempt an increased load on the mods? I realize the scope of technical skills across the site userbase goes probably from zilch to 100 but if there's any window of opportunity I think we should help.

Whether we're somehow checking orientation or fixing it, whatever we can do prior to an upload.

Thank you SatNavSaysStraightOn

If you look at the image in the thumbnail before inserting it, that and obviously inserting it, will tell you how the site is seeing the orientation of your image.

If it's sideways or upside down in the thumbnail, it's going to be that way posted. So just open it in whatever editing tool you use, make a minor change, that's vital, and save.

I just take a pixel off one side, or add at single black pixel inside a dark area, enough to trigger the "revert to original" any Samsung user will know well! You could also pinch zoom and reposition within your frame etc. Or you can resize it to CB size spec instead of the system doing it.

Then save and upload that one. You don't need to rename it.

Any minor change will reset the orientation data and match it to what you see on screen.

That's enough.

 

[Barriehie]

If you look at the image in the thumbnail before inserting it, that and obviously inserting it, will tell you how the site is seeing the orientation of your image.

If it's sideways or upside down in the thumbnail, it's going to be that way posted. So just open it in whatever editing tool you use, make a minor change, that's vital, and save.

I just take a pixel off one side, or add at single black pixel inside a dark area, enough to trigger the "revert to original" any Samsung user will know well! You could also pinch zoom and reposition within your frame etc. Or you can resize it to CB size spec instead of the system doing it.

Then save and upload that one. You don't need to rename it.

Any minor change will reset the orientation data and match it to what you see on screen.

That's enough.

I find it very fast to crop a smidgen, any axis will do.