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mgirardo
Jun 14, 2018Explorer
GadgetmanUSA wrote:
For some reason the pic I supplied is turned on it's side. Not sure why?
This is an issue with your smartphone. When Apple introduced the iPhone, it had one problem that still has not been fixed. The metadata for photos taken Portrait is stored incorrectly. When Samsung ripped off the iPhone, they also ripped off the incorrectly written metadata, so photos taken with Samsung phones that are portrait have the same problem. I believe there are other Smartphone makers that write metadata incorrectly as well.
It's not an issue on all web sites. With RV.net, photos are not processed at all by the web site, they are just displayed. The web browser sees the incorrect metadata and takes it at face value and assumes the photo should be displayed the way the metadata has it listed. A lot of web sites that allow you to upload photos and store them there, like Facebook and a lot of photo sharing web sites, process the photos as they are uploaded and strip the metadata off so the photo is displayed as it was taken.
Using a photo editing application, like say Photoshop, the metadata gets re-written so that photo is displayed properly. I encountered this years ago when I first started building web sites for clients where they uploaded their own photos. Took some time to figure that out back then.
Either stop taking photos with your smartphone Portrait style (if you plan to share them online) or process the photos with a photo editing application that rewrites the metadata. Or just ask d3500ram to correct it for you :)
-Michael
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