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So I post my images on painting and showcase from my i-phone because i find thats the easiest way however the past two occasions my images come out sideways on the site any help please?

No real fix. Dakka will sometimes read the metadata showing the phone orientation.

You'll need to reorient the images with a photo editing application and reupload.

 Ouze wrote:
No real fix. Dakka will sometimes read the metadata showing the phone orientation.

You'll need to reorient the images with a photo editing application and reupload.

Thanks, so i basically need to make them sideways on my phone first

 DarkHero wrote:

Thanks, so i basically need to make them sideways on my phone first

No, you need to make them upright on your phone first

The issue is with images that are taken with the phone camera sideways. The image file contains metadata that the phone reads to determine which way up the photo should be displayed, but which (thanks to Apple deliberately making their stuff difficult for non-Apple stuff to work with) other image software (like Dakka's) won't always be able to read properly.

Opening the image in an image editor and then saving it re-orients the image - so instead of the image file saying 'This photo is this way, but display it that way', the image file and the orientation will now match, making it easier for Dakka's software to display it correctly.


You don't actually even need to rotate the photo physically, generally - just open it in an image editor, make some slight change (usually you need to edit something in order for it to save the 'edited' photo) - adjust the brightness, tweak the colours, crop it, whatever - and then save.

Or you can even just rotate the image 360 degrees (back to where it was oriented originally), which allows you to save it as an edited image.