ConstantGreen
New Member
Hey, I notice people upload pictures here that are sometimes rotated to the side or even upside down. I thought they were just noobs at uploading photos but I've started having the same issue and it's pretty annoying.
When I take a picture with my 5 yr. old digital camera, if I was holding the camera in portrait position, the image eventually gets rotated sideways after being uploaded to 420mag. This doesn't happen with portrait photos taken from my smartphone's camera.
When I move the images from my camera's SD card to Windows, the images are automatically rotated into correct position. Portrait photos appear tall and right-side up as I took them. But when uploaded to 420mag, they lay sideways again. I've tried going back and rotating the image around and resaving it, but 420mag still decides to lay them down. I've tried editing the image in paint and resaving it; but 420mag still auto rotates it back sideways. The only way I can get portrait shots to appear straight is by uploading the image to a 3rd party image host, re-downloading it to my desktop, then reuploading it to 420mag. This is very annoying. But I think it shows that the original photos have some kind of meta data that 420mag is obeying.
I notice on other forums they have a checkbox option when uploading photos to "Allow image Exif orientation" or something along those lines. I don't know what that means exactly, but I know images upload straight as they appear in Windows when you choose to ignore the exif data.
Can things be tweaked so images are uploaded correctly? Either default ignore exif, provide checkbox option, or some kind of built-in image rotation for uploads. Thanks.
When I take a picture with my 5 yr. old digital camera, if I was holding the camera in portrait position, the image eventually gets rotated sideways after being uploaded to 420mag. This doesn't happen with portrait photos taken from my smartphone's camera.
When I move the images from my camera's SD card to Windows, the images are automatically rotated into correct position. Portrait photos appear tall and right-side up as I took them. But when uploaded to 420mag, they lay sideways again. I've tried going back and rotating the image around and resaving it, but 420mag still decides to lay them down. I've tried editing the image in paint and resaving it; but 420mag still auto rotates it back sideways. The only way I can get portrait shots to appear straight is by uploading the image to a 3rd party image host, re-downloading it to my desktop, then reuploading it to 420mag. This is very annoying. But I think it shows that the original photos have some kind of meta data that 420mag is obeying.
I notice on other forums they have a checkbox option when uploading photos to "Allow image Exif orientation" or something along those lines. I don't know what that means exactly, but I know images upload straight as they appear in Windows when you choose to ignore the exif data.
Can things be tweaked so images are uploaded correctly? Either default ignore exif, provide checkbox option, or some kind of built-in image rotation for uploads. Thanks.