many members are having difficulty taking photographs with smart phones and once uploaded to the forum, these photographs upload sideways, and have to be reoriented to display correctly. i know some of you have become rather frustrated with it. smart phones smarter than us?........
any picture taken with a smart phone
horizontally will always upload and post correctly unless you have rotated your smart phone 'upside down' then the photo will post 'upside down'. any picture taken
vertically will upload sideways and will either have to be rotated by you before uploading to the forum on your own pc, or corrected after uploading and posting by us. any picture taken vertically and directly uploaded from your smart phone will always post sideways and we will have to reorient them.
how to fix these vertical photographs posting sideways:
1. check to see if there is a setting in your specific smart phone to change the orientation of the vertically shot photograph/s. view the
photograph/s on your phone and go into the 'settings' of each photograph to determine whether or not you can change the orientation
and save it. if not these photos will have to be imported to your pc and reoriented with any simple free program on windows based pc's.
(i am unfamiliar with mac's).
2. import the photograph/s to your pc and manually change the orientation. all smart phone pics taken vertically and imported to a windows based pc
will also appear sideways. these have to be manually rotated to view them properly, and manually rotated to upload and post correctly on the forum.
windows based pcs have a number of simple free programs you can use; microsoft office picture manager (rotate and flip option), photo gallery (rotate right or left option), photo viewer (rotate clockwise or counterclockwise option). if you happen to have windows 7, left click on the photograph, right click to bring up a sub menu, and in that menu you have an option to either rotate clockwise or counterclockwise.
also sometimes these photos can be stubborn, they will rotate back. copy the photograph, rotate it and save it under a similar name to the original ie: copy of xyz.....
there are other free programs you can download, for example picassa, that also gives one an option to rotate the photograph. also, all photo program software that one purchases has this ability as well, but you don't need to buy a program to rotate photographs, just use what is available on your computer.
3. if uploading vertical pictures directly from your smart phone, re-orient them either in the phones settings or importing to your pc first and manually
re-orienting, or consider taking the photograph horizontally.
4. take photographs horizontally, not vertically.
if anyone has any questions, or if i can help you get your photos uploaded correctly with your specific operating system and whatever photo programs you are using, i would be happy to help you out.
SMART PHONE VIDEOS- VERTICAL OR HORIZONTAL?
we have seen some videos shot vertically with a smart phone. i have uploaded two examples.
shot vertically with a samsung galaxy s4, uploaded to you tube, this is what you get, a skinny video with a lot of black bars:
(i rotated this video to play properly on my pc with windows movie maker. if not rotated, you tube recognizes the video is sideways so rotates it accordingly)
shot horizontally, a nice hd widescreen video:
