Upside down photographs

[Paul Drawmer]

I have searched, but couldn't find an answer.

If I have a phone pic that insists on being shown on PH upside down, how do I correct it?

I have tried editing the photo on my desktop to rotate it and then used it via the beta thumbsnap, but it still turned it round.

I also tried uploading to flikr where it looked fine, until I linked to it from PH, whereupon it was inverted again.

Is the inversion based on some kind of picture format algorithm or is there a bit of picture data that needs editing?


crop lights by Paul Drawmer, on Flickr

[B'stard Child]

Phone Camera?

If yes it's because you held the phone the wrong way up and now the meta data or whatever it is is convinced it's the right way up

MSPaint open picture rotate to correct and then save as new picture works for me - not sure how you would do it on a phone

[B'stard Child]

There you go



I was correct on the phone guess - Samsung GT-I8200N - I think it's the exif data that needs a tweak but way out of my comfort zone

[B'stard Child]

If you can delete the exif data you can rotate it to whatever you want and it should stay that way

On a PC properties then details and remove properties and personal information - stick an x in the exif data and you can leave everything else there and it should rotate without remembering what it was

I tried it on a copy of your picture and it seemed happy to stay the right way up

[PoleDriver]

But it’s not upside down?

[Paul Drawmer]

B'stard Child said:

If you can delete the exif data you can rotate it to whatever you want and it should stay that way

On a PC properties then details and remove properties and personal information - stick an x in the exif data and you can leave everything else there and it should rotate without remembering what it was

I tried it on a copy of your picture and it seemed happy to stay the right way up

Thank you for this, I'll give it a go.

Re rotating and saving as different: The pic in my original post was done like that before uploading to flikr. It looks ok on there (click on link under photo) but is inverted on here. I don't use Windows, so I used the Ubuntu quick editor Shotwell; it must not be changing the part of the exif that is doing the orientation.

Thanks folks. I rarely use the phone camera as it is piss poor.

[B'stard Child]

PoleDriver said:

But it’s not upside down?

It was

Edited to add

And for some reason now on my PC it's upside down again - if I look on an ipad it's the right way up.....

Edited by B'stard Child on Tuesday 24th October 08:59

[B'stard Child]

Paul Drawmer said:

B'stard Child said:

If you can delete the exif data you can rotate it to whatever you want and it should stay that way

On a PC properties then details and remove properties and personal information - stick an x in the exif data and you can leave everything else there and it should rotate without remembering what it was

I tried it on a copy of your picture and it seemed happy to stay the right way up

Thank you for this, I'll give it a go.

Re rotating and saving as different: The pic in my original post was done like that before uploading to flikr. It looks ok on there (click on link under photo) but is inverted on here. I don't use Windows, so I used the Ubuntu quick editor Shotwell; it must not be changing the part of the exif that is doing the orientation.

I think Paint is quite basic in terms of photo manipulation which is probably why it works for me

Paul Drawmer said:

Thanks folks. I rarely use the phone camera as it is piss poor.

I look at pictures taken with phones these days and I am amazed at how much the images have improved over just a few years but I guess that's a subject for another discussion elsewhere

[PoleDriver]

B'stard Child said:

PoleDriver said:

But it’s not upside down?

It was

Edited to add

And for some reason now on my PC it's upside down again - if I look on an ipad it's the right way up.....

Edited by B'stard Child on Tuesday 24th October 08:59

This is getting weird!
When I wrote that I was looking on my iPad, and it was the correct way up.
I'm now at work on my PC and it is upside down!

[B'stard Child]

PoleDriver said:

B'stard Child said:

PoleDriver said:

But it’s not upside down?

It was

Edited to add

And for some reason now on my PC it's upside down again - if I look on an ipad it's the right way up.....

Edited by B'stard Child on Tuesday 24th October 08:59

This is getting weird!
When I wrote that I was looking on my iPad, and it was the correct way up.
I'm now at work on my PC and it is upside down!

Yep - it seems IPads are clever and PC's are stupid

[PoleDriver]

B'stard Child said:

Yep - it seems computing devices are clever and PH is stupid

FTFY

[Dr Tad Winslow]

iphone by any chance?

[B'stard Child]

Dr Tad Winslow said:

iphone by any chance?

OP's phone is a Samsung if it helps

I am however with you I did expect IPhone to have been the culprit

[B'stard Child]

PoleDriver said:

B'stard Child said:

Yep - it seems computing devices are clever and PH is stupid

FTFY

Seems a little unfair as we resolved his issue

PS amazed that this thread doesn't have [ANSWERED] in front of the topic already