Sideways Photos. A Discussion By Fatfeisty

Sideways photos

Discussion - started by fatfeisty, posted on 17-Apr-19 10:35AM

So, when I first joined NZP I messaged the owner, asking them to explain why my photo was always turning sideways when I uploaded it. This never happens on any other sites.
I was told that it was because MY photo was round the wrong way, it wasn't their system.

I'm no major programmer, but I'm also not stupid. And if every other person has sideways and even upside down photos, it can't just be me getting frustrated by this.

Do we have any IT gurus in the house?

Comment #1 by Londonzug in response to the main topic

Posted on 17-Apr-19 11:57AM

The system after 19years should have the ability to implement rotate like other sites

Comment #2 by fatfeisty in response to Londonzug ( view post )

Posted on 17-Apr-19 11:59AM

And you have the perfect example!

Comment #3 by Londonzug in response to fatfeisty ( view post )

Posted on 17-Apr-19 1:59PM

I know go figure. I uploaded two vertical pictures and I end up with 1 sideways and 1 straight up. Useless system.

Comment #4 by RustyKnight in response to the main topic

Posted on 17-Apr-19 5:54PM

When uploading photos, your images may sometimes appear to upload "sideways". The system on here does not rotate images during the upload process. The reason your photo would appear this way is because the photo was taken vertically and the image file itself is in this orientation.

Easiest solution is before uploading, rotate the image on your computer in a graphics program (something simple like Paint) and re-save it!

Comment #5 by Londonzug in response to RustyKnight ( view post )

Posted on 17-Apr-19 9:37PM

Yes I tried this, but when re-uploaded the picture it rotated every which way except the way I wanted so I gave up.

Comment #6 by fatfeisty in response to RustyKnight ( view post )

Posted on 17-Apr-19 10:01PM

But that's NOT the easiest solution. I mean, think about other sites you upload photos to, like Trade Me. It doesn't matter whether a photo has been taken vertically, horizontally, or upside down. It leaves it as is.
And yes, like Londonzug, I tried doing the rotate thing too, and it just rotated my photo every other way possible. It's BS.

Comment #7 by fatfeisty in response to the main topic

Posted on 17-Apr-19 10:08PM

Apparently, it doesn't take a genius to fix it either. I just found out how on Github. It's all to do with the EXIF Orientation. There are auto-rotate programs you can encode into the system.

Comment #9 by Londonzug in response to fatfeisty ( view post )

Posted on 17-Apr-19 11:28PM

Nice sussing out. They need to implement it here.

Comment #10 by nzpersonals in response to the main topic

Posted on 18-Apr-19 3:22PM

Ok, fair call, we've just added a facility which should auto-orient cellphone pics whenever you upload them upside down or skewed left/right.

Obviously this won't affect the photos that have already been uploaded, you'll have to re-upload those in order to correct the orientation.

Also, if you've stripped or cleared that information from the photo before uploading, then it won't be re-oriented.

Comment #11 by fatfeisty in response to nzpersonals ( view post )

Posted on 18-Apr-19 3:28PM

Ooh that sounds good. Yay! Thanks.

I'm not sure how someone would strip a photo of its info. I guess that happens when people go and use things like Paint etc.?

I'm excited... *runs off to try*