Rotating an image in a GCA Page

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Rotating an image in a GCA Page

Post by ahomburg » 28 November 15 1:25 pm

Hi there,

I have uploaded an image onto my 2 GeGnome pages, but for some reason, they get rotated when they appear so are sideways. Any Ideas how to fix this, or perhaps some HTML that can be added to rotate?

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Adriaan

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Re: Rotating an image in a GCA Page

Post by Goldenwattle » 28 November 15 2:51 pm

Are you uploading directly from a phone?
I load my photographs into Photoshop and make any corrections there first, before uploading to the net. There are other cheaper programs that do the same thing. Even word can rotate images. Vertical images taken from a phone are likely to load sideways, if the evidence I see of uploaded images on the net is a guide.
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Re: Rotating an image in a GCA Page

Post by CraigRat » 28 November 15 3:33 pm

This will be fixed in a future update of the site. For now you'll have to manually rotate them with a graphics package.

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Re: Rotating an image in a GCA Page

Post by ahomburg » 28 November 15 3:47 pm

Thanks for the reply. The version I have uploaded is the correct way around (I rotated it in windows ) but it seems to rotate once uploaded to the cache page.

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Re: Rotating an image in a GCA Page

Post by CraigRat » 28 November 15 4:00 pm

ahomburg wrote:Thanks for the reply. The version I have uploaded is the correct way around (I rotated it in windows ) but it seems to rotate once uploaded to the cache page.
Some image programs don't properly rotate images, you might need to try another package.

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Re: Rotating an image in a GCA Page

Post by ahomburg » 28 November 15 5:44 pm

That did the trick, opened and saved in paint!!

Thanks for your help. =D>

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Re: Rotating an image in a GCA Page

Post by LouiseAnn » 04 December 15 7:50 pm

my photos seem to always come in sideways too. They look fine before I load them :(

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Re: Rotating an image in a GCA Page

Post by caughtatwork » 04 December 15 9:53 pm

We don't do anything to your photos only resize them. What's happening is your program is saying they've been rotated, but they haven't. Only the meta data is changed so some programs will present them as having been rotated. But in reality they haven't been.

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Re: Rotating an image in a GCA Page

Post by LouiseAnn » 04 December 15 10:04 pm

They are upright when I look at them on the computer before I upload them.... just sayin'

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Post by MavEtJu » 05 December 15 9:28 am

LouiseAnn wrote:They are upright when I look at them on the computer before I upload them.... just sayin'
The program you uses uses the Exif data about the orientation. Currently the software on the GCA website doesn't do this.
They were in the progress of changing this, I don't know what the current status is.

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Re: Rotating an image in a GCA Page

Post by CraigRat » 05 December 15 9:33 am

Team MavEtJu wrote:
LouiseAnn wrote:They are upright when I look at them on the computer before I upload them.... just sayin'
The program you uses uses the Exif data about the orientation. Currently the software on the GCA website doesn't do this.
They were in the progress of changing this, I don't know what the current status is.
The version of our image handling software on the current dserver cannot handle EXIF rotations

The new box does and all this will work once I get it online.

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Re: Rotating an image in a GCA Page

Post by LouiseAnn » 06 December 15 10:55 am

CraigRat wrote:
Team MavEtJu wrote:
LouiseAnn wrote:They are upright when I look at them on the computer before I upload them.... just sayin'
The program you uses uses the Exif data about the orientation. Currently the software on the GCA website doesn't do this.
They were in the progress of changing this, I don't know what the current status is.
The version of our image handling software on the current dserver cannot handle EXIF rotations

The new box does and all this will work once I get it online.
Ace :) Good to know, I will not worry about it then. Thanks :)

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