Pictures keep reverting back to the wrong orientation?

[Deleted User]

Some of you might had experience with this issue. Uploaded to the blog photos keep the wrong orientation even after editing.The problem is that the majority of modern cameras have a rotation sensor which writes an orientation EXIF flag into the file to tell your software howto turn the photo for display.The problem is that most web browsers ignore that flag in the image.

Safari and some Apple programs, such as Preview and iPhoto, recognize the flag and use it to rotate the image that’s why it looks correct on your screen.Presently our onboard image editor Aviary doesn't work with this flag too. However our technical guys are working on it.  Right now to resolve this issue you need to fix the orientation of your photos before adding them to the admin. You can do that by means of a program which will rotate the actual content of your image based on the flag, then update it to reflect the new straight orientation.

 Photoshop instructions:

1.Open your photo in Photoshop

2.Change Orientation to desired through "Image" (in upper menu) - "Image Rotation"

3.To save a photo go to "File" menu and choose "Save for Web..."

4.A preview window will open. Please make sure "Metadata" drop is set to "none" and click Save.

5.Please save your photo as a new one - don't enter the same name to overwrite the old image.

Pixlr.com instructions:

In case you don't have Photoshop, you can use free online editor http://apps.pixlr.com/editor/

1.Open your photo file

2.In "Image" menu select proper rotation option

3.In "File" menu click "Save" and download edited image to your computer

4.Please save your photo as a new one - don't enter the same name to overwrite the old image.

If you have any additional questions, please let us know, we are always ready to help!

 

 

Oliviia_r

Thanks for the detailed explanation! 😊 I had the same problem: images were constantly being flipped due to EXIF ​​orientation, which most browsers and some editors ignore. After I used Photoshop and Pixlr as described, the photos are displayed correctly on the blog.

What you mentioned is especially useful: you need to save the photo as a new file so as not to overwrite the old version with the wrong orientation flag. I'm also glad that the team is working on supporting EXIF ​​in the built-in Aviary editor - this will greatly simplify the process in the future.

By the way, another of my favorite tools is the free online photo background remover, which is very useful when you need to quickly remove the background from an image.- it really helps when you need to quickly remove the background from an image.