A revolting development
Yesterday I spent a good portion of my time image wrestling. I was importing images into the WP media gallery but soon found there was an issue. The images looked beautiful on my laptop, but when they arrived in the gallery, they were laying on their side.
I thought, OK, how about I flip right the way up with the picture editor. No joy. I did that, saved them, but when I went to upload them from the gallery into my post...the new version was nowhere to be found.
I played around with this for a few hours to no avail. I finally started a ticket with tech support and happed to think about Googling the issue first. Well, I found out that this is a common problem and spent another 45 minutes reading about that.
It has to do with something called an Exif Orientation tag. That's tech speak for different machines handle pictures different way and you and I are caught in the middle of it all. I realized that the pictures I was having difficulty with were ones I had taken with my phone.
I tried flipping them up right, flipping them the opposite way, and when I had them looking like they should, they still showed up laying on their sides. Well, shhhhhhhhhhhooot!
Then a squirrel ran through my cranium, and I thought I would try to run the images through PhotoShop to see if that would fix the problem. Long story short, it did. All I had to do was import the image into Adobe Photoshop Elements' photo editor, save it back to my laptop, then import into my WP Media Gallery and they arrived in perfect orientation. Whew!
Just thought I would share that fix in case anyone else runs into that problem. I'm sure there are other fixes, but this one worked for me.
KC
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Thanks for the information, Kc, phew quite a hard time, I can imagine always when we just want to add some pictures to the content...
Good techie squirrel you had and good nerves!
Hi KC, this is a new one.
Thank you for sharing. Technology, compatibility devices and formats seem like a never ending learning curve.
Glad that squirrel ran through your mind.
I love all aspects of Adobe Photoshop, expensive unless you use the cloud.
Part-time I used to do a lot of photography, weddings, babies scenery and so on. I took a 6 month course for Adobe Photoshop what an amazing program.
Glad you got everything worked out. Continued success.
Michael
I am glad that you found a way to fix the problem. I too have had the same problem in the past.
I ended up deciding to NOT use my iPhone for pictures for my blogs. Your solution sounds like a good one.
https://www.howtogeek.com/254830/why-your-photos-dont-always-appear-correctly-rotated/
Explained it all to me.
Hey KC, that's an annoying issue to have to deal with. Definitely glad you solved it though. Thanks for sharing it for others to follow if it happens to them. I tagged this to reference for the future.
Best Regards,
Jim
I have not faced this issue but if I had I would have fixed them the same way you did.
Happy day When all works well.
Laura
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Good tip Kc.
Derek