image orientation

i just started a new thread. in one message, every image was rotated. some 90 degrees (sideways) and some 180 degrees (upside down). the first posting with images was fine. the second was nothing but bad.

any idea on what i could do to fix this? the thread in question is:
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=355191

the images in the second post are fine. the third post . . . . . . .

thanx.

If I upload pics from my Galaxy phone their rotated, are you using a phone?

Forum issue, happens a lot it seems...

930dreamer said:

If I upload pics from my Galaxy phone their rotated, are you using a phone?

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no, i am uploading from a mac.

i even took one of the pictures, rolled it around until it was upside down, and re-uploaded it. it still appeared upside down.

it is almost like there is some process trying to determine which side is up.

ok, so i looked at the page source (as i said in another post, i suppose it has been a slow day)

a correctly displayed image from the second post is coded like this:

<a href="http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=631919&d=1488936343" rel="Lightbox_6364957" id="attachment631919" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=631919&thumb=1&d=1488936343" class="thumbnail" border="0" alt="Click image for larger version

Name: locker.jpg
Views: 14
Size: 107.5 KB
ID: 631919" style="margin: 2px" /></a><br />

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while an incorrectly orientated image is coded like this:

<a href="http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=631932" target="_blank" title="Name:
Views:
Size: ">Attachment 631932</a><br />

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there is a bug somewhere, causing the Name field not to be defined. this likely causes the other fields not to be updated either.

"ya know, i learned something today" . . . . .

this is a well known issue with vbulliten software.

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=314587

their opinion seems to be:

"it is not really our problem, it is misbehaving software on mobile phones (they specify iPhones), but we will fix it if there is enough demand."

the issue with that appears to be that it is not an issue with a bunch of their customers. only a few seem to view it as an issue, which means that their paradigm for prioritizing bugs leaves this behind, since it doesnt effect a lot of their customers.

personally, i dont have an issue with either of their positions: 1) it isn't our fault, 2) we will fix it when enough customers prioritize it.

i will note that, based on previous experience, understanding the problem is usually 80% of the effort involved. once you really understand the problem, you usually understand how the fix works, and it is often most cost effective to just fix it.

if whomever is the maintainer of the software here goes over to the vbulliten site, and tries to up vote this issue, it can only help. the issue will be that any likely fix will not be available for the version that is used here.

these issues are, as we used to say, above my pay grade.


now, the "quick" solution here is to load the images into a photo/image app, orientate them the way you want, and re-export them to reset the data stored in the image. "photo" on my mac worked, and i am sure there are a lot of windows software that would also solve the problem.

hopefully this solution, such as it is, will propagate through the site enough to deal with the problem.

before I learned to turn my iphone sideways whenever I take a picture, this is what I did.

email the pics from the phone to myself. open the email on a regular computer (windows), save the attachments to my hard drive folder.

open each picture in the viewer, rotate to the right, move to the next. that automatically saves the picture the way you left it.

then upload to the forum.

if you upload directly from the phone, you are out of luck...

Unless you use Tapatalk on your phone then your pics are always correct and sized appropriately.