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Auto magically rotated
Apr. 20th, 2007 06:57 pmWell Dayamn!
Took a couple of photos while i was waiting for the bus. One or two where i turned the camera vertical. Got home. Uploaded to pc, rotated and saved those ones.
No problem.
When i uploaded them to Flickr, they reversed themselves to horizontal, meaning of course, you'd have to turn your head to view them.
That had me baffled. Photo on the pc was fine. Photo on flickr... sideways.
Photo uploaded to LJ's scrapbook ok too.
anyway...
I took a photo in the vertical persepective here. Didn't rotate/save it on the pc. Uploaded it. Perfect!! Very weird. The camera encodes something into the photo's meta (Exif) data that Flickr picks up and knows which direction it was taken in and can auto-rotate it when it uploads it. Then i displayed the new unrotated photo in windows explorer. Right clicked and used the "rotate" thingy on the menu there to make it upright, thinking that might change the Exif data. Nope. Flickr rotated it further and it's sideways so it's 180 degrees from the original direction i uploaded it as. That's annoying. I prefer to check my photos out and rotate them as needed and then upload them, expecting them to upload as i see them. Considering that Flickr isn't my primary photo storage site, I would rather they not do that. I guess the solution, if i want to rotate them on the pc and save them there, is to use Flickr's rotate function. That works. (EDIT... ah i found the setting on Flickr where i can uncheck the "auto magically rotate" option. Result!)
Took a couple of photos while i was waiting for the bus. One or two where i turned the camera vertical. Got home. Uploaded to pc, rotated and saved those ones.
No problem.
When i uploaded them to Flickr, they reversed themselves to horizontal, meaning of course, you'd have to turn your head to view them.
That had me baffled. Photo on the pc was fine. Photo on flickr... sideways.
Photo uploaded to LJ's scrapbook ok too.
anyway...
I took a photo in the vertical persepective here. Didn't rotate/save it on the pc. Uploaded it. Perfect!! Very weird. The camera encodes something into the photo's meta (Exif) data that Flickr picks up and knows which direction it was taken in and can auto-rotate it when it uploads it. Then i displayed the new unrotated photo in windows explorer. Right clicked and used the "rotate" thingy on the menu there to make it upright, thinking that might change the Exif data. Nope. Flickr rotated it further and it's sideways so it's 180 degrees from the original direction i uploaded it as. That's annoying. I prefer to check my photos out and rotate them as needed and then upload them, expecting them to upload as i see them. Considering that Flickr isn't my primary photo storage site, I would rather they not do that. I guess the solution, if i want to rotate them on the pc and save them there, is to use Flickr's rotate function. That works. (EDIT... ah i found the setting on Flickr where i can uncheck the "auto magically rotate" option. Result!)
