Hi Rod, thanks for explaining, but the the orientation is right when viewed on my PC and some of the pics keep turning around (?) when i import them in the message, strange but true.
[…] it's driving me :nuts:
Albert, some software assume the user has a total computer ineptitude, so it keeps charge of reorienting the images, modifying the zoom, etc. without to tell you what it is doing (so you can't learn… but you can always buy software thinking for you!).
The image is saved in "landscape" mode, but a "flag" in the Exif metadata (see
Wikipedia for details) states your Samsung GT-I9505 was kept in "portrait" mode.
BTW, opening your images separately with Firefox, this one shows them with the corrected orientation (white label up), keeping the data stored by your phone, and the image loads from right to left rather than from top to bottom (my connection is slow enough to notice this).
GIMP, a free graphic program, warns the image data indicate it is rotated, and asks if you want to have it rotated as reported by the phone (90° clockwise) or in landscape mode as it was saved.
With GIMP (like with Picasa) it is also possible to resize the image to a more "web-friendly" format, like 640×853 pixels, 77 Kb, like the one below, which is more than good if you don't have to print a 70×100 cm "art quality" poster from it:
If you send some 4.3 Mb images (the "weight" of the original image) to a friend who is paying his Internet phone connection by the traffic don't be surprised if you lost a friend.
Am I the only one suspecting a cabal between software producers and phone companies to steal money to unaware users? :biggrin:
Oh… nice lathe, BTW
