Important--I figured out how to rotate photos - ZR-1 Net Registry Forums

WARP TEN · 07-13-2020

As you have heard me complain about in the past, often when we upload photos to this website they appear here either sideways or upside down. Seems impossible to fix and no one has offered a solution. Well I was searching for answers about how to rotate photos on vBulletin websites and stumbled across a 2013 posting from, of all things, the Rocketry Forum. Yes, it seems to be Rocket Science after all. Here it is:

"Modern cameras actually detect which way is "up," and encode your pics to autorotate in some viewers. But the actual JPG is always landscape.

To alter it, save the file to your PC. Open in it Windows Paint, rotate it 90 degrees one way, then 90 degrees the other way so that it is back to vertical. Resave it, and the "correction" will be gone."

Now this seems to only be for Windows computers, and you have to download your pix to your computer to do it (which I normally do anyway), but I tried it and it works. I almost didn't post the thread about my grandkids because 3 of 4 of the pictures, which were right side up on my computer, appeared upside down or sideways when I uploaded them to this website. After I did the rotate back/forth then save with Paint, they uploaded just fine. For those who have had trouble with this like I have, try it and let us know if it also works for you. --Bob

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WARP TEN Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Lake Bluff, IL Posts: 2,045	Important--I figured out how to rotate photos As you have heard me complain about in the past, often when we upload photos to this website they appear here either sideways or upside down. Seems impossible to fix and no one has offered a solution. Well I was searching for answers about how to rotate photos on vBulletin websites and stumbled across a 2013 posting from, of all things, the Rocketry Forum. Yes, it seems to be Rocket Science after all. Here it is: "Modern cameras actually detect which way is "up," and encode your pics to autorotate in some viewers. But the actual JPG is always landscape. To alter it, save the file to your PC. Open in it Windows Paint, rotate it 90 degrees one way, then 90 degrees the other way so that it is back to vertical. Resave it, and the "correction" will be gone." Now this seems to only be for Windows computers, and you have to download your pix to your computer to do it (which I normally do anyway), but I tried it and it works. I almost didn't post the thread about my grandkids because 3 of 4 of the pictures, which were right side up on my computer, appeared upside down or sideways when I uploaded them to this website. After I did the rotate back/forth then save with Paint, they uploaded just fine. For those who have had trouble with this like I have, try it and let us know if it also works for you. --Bob __________________ 2016 Long Beach Red Z06 #10281 "POPS Z" 1995 Polo Green #409 "WARP TEN"--Haibeck 350/510 package, 4.10s, Hurst, Stock Exhaust with QTP Cutouts --Sold but still running strong 1993 Quasar Blue #161 "HIL KING" --Sold but still running strong, now with more than 120,000 miles 1967 Marlboro Maroon/Saddle Corvette Coupe 300 hp/4-spd --Sold a long time ago ZR-1 Net Registry Founding Member #95 NCM Lifetime Member Favorite Quote--Attributed to Mickey Thompson: "Too Much Horsepower is Almost Enough"