Tech Q

[Jason Musgrave]

Every pic I try to attach to the forum taken on my cell (Galaxy S5) is always rotated wrong. I've tried just about everything I can think of but can't get them to attach in the correct orientation - any thoughts?

[Nierman]

I'm not going to be of any help but I had a similar issue with jpegs from my camera a while back - if I attached the native IMG jpg straight off the card it would sometimes be rotated. If I opened in Photoshop and simply resaved as jpg it would show up fine. Sometimes does this in Blogger as well.

[spopepro]

The EXIF data is either wrong, different than expected, or not getting uploaded. Upload a bad pic here from your phone and we can see what actually makes it up.

[Jason Musgrave]

Here ya go:

[j44ke]

My brother-in-law has this phone. He says that at least on his phone the rotate is only for viewing on the phone. By that I think he means that rotating the file is not any different than zooming the file. You aren't actually editing the orientation just changing the viewing position. He says he has a different photo gallery app for his phone that does the editing. Unfortunately I don't remember the name.

Edit: I see Aviary is available for Android. That's a pretty good editor in iOS, so it might also work well in Android. You can ignore all the in-app invitations to buy different presets and use the standard editing tools.

[Jason Musgrave]

I'm actually sending the pics to my computer, getting the rotation right, saving them then uploading...where the rotation goes wonky - it's not even back to the same rotation the phone took them in.

[ned]

There have only been a couple of times that I uploaded photos from the photo stream file on my laptop (iPhone photos that automatically go to the laptop hard drive via the cloud). Those were always rotated. If I upload straight from my iPhone using the forum runner app, I've no problems.

I have nothing technical to offer.

[spopepro]

You need the static link. Flickr uses a ton of scripting, but you should be able to somewhere find a link directly just to the image. It will either say for embedding or static.