Since the advent of Smartphones, it is often a problem when uploading photos here on the TDB. They are not oriented properly.
Each phone camera manufacturer has settings available to orient them. Rotation is always disabled when I am taking the photo. However, this is not always sufficient on some phones. My Android phone appears to get confused often. When they look okay in my Gallery view on the phone, I then transfer them to my PC. They look good there too when I see them in the Folder Icon view or in the MS Photo Viewer software built into my PC.
However......
When I upload those same photos here to the TDB, they're sideways. I have spent much time in my phone settings and nothing works. I've read on the forums and blogs that everyone has problems and the manufacturer help documents are useless. I've experimented so much and to no avail I cannot get this corrected on my Android. It's clearly a bug. SO........
Below is a method I have continually used to workaround this problem. It's a bit of a pain but it always works.
On my PC, I go to the folder with the photos and double click on a photo to view it in the MS Photo viewer. The photo looks fine and is oriented properly. The Viewer has a rotate button, CW-Right or CCW-Left. I deliberately hit a Rotate button to mis-orient the photo sideways. Advance to the next photo so it then saves the previously rotated file, albeit in the wrong orientation. I repeat the same on every photo in the folder. Now all of my photos are sideways.
I then go back and Rotate a photo again back to normal orientation view and advance to the next, each time it will then save the previous photo so it is then oriented correctly. I repeat this on all photos in the folder. All fixed, even though they're just back to the way I saw them originally in the Viewer, however some attribute got overwritten and the photos are now ready for upload without a problem.
I then upload the photos to the TDB........ They are now correctly oriented!
I have no idea why this works, but it does, and I'm sticking with it until this unusual Android cell phone camera oddity gets corrected.
(See THIS POST for the reason)
Rich
Each phone camera manufacturer has settings available to orient them. Rotation is always disabled when I am taking the photo. However, this is not always sufficient on some phones. My Android phone appears to get confused often. When they look okay in my Gallery view on the phone, I then transfer them to my PC. They look good there too when I see them in the Folder Icon view or in the MS Photo Viewer software built into my PC.
However......

When I upload those same photos here to the TDB, they're sideways. I have spent much time in my phone settings and nothing works. I've read on the forums and blogs that everyone has problems and the manufacturer help documents are useless. I've experimented so much and to no avail I cannot get this corrected on my Android. It's clearly a bug. SO........
Below is a method I have continually used to workaround this problem. It's a bit of a pain but it always works.
On my PC, I go to the folder with the photos and double click on a photo to view it in the MS Photo viewer. The photo looks fine and is oriented properly. The Viewer has a rotate button, CW-Right or CCW-Left. I deliberately hit a Rotate button to mis-orient the photo sideways. Advance to the next photo so it then saves the previously rotated file, albeit in the wrong orientation. I repeat the same on every photo in the folder. Now all of my photos are sideways.
I then go back and Rotate a photo again back to normal orientation view and advance to the next, each time it will then save the previous photo so it is then oriented correctly. I repeat this on all photos in the folder. All fixed, even though they're just back to the way I saw them originally in the Viewer, however some attribute got overwritten and the photos are now ready for upload without a problem.
I then upload the photos to the TDB........ They are now correctly oriented!

I have no idea why this works, but it does, and I'm sticking with it until this unusual Android cell phone camera oddity gets corrected.
(See THIS POST for the reason)
Rich
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