Hi there, since a week or so we’re experiencing trouble with images uploaded from mobile phones. As can be seen below they turn sideways. Can anyone explain why this is occurring and/or fix this issue? [image]

Bit more googling suggests that Samsung devices handle rotated images differently, although I haven’t found a good source to confirm. Seems like non-samsung devices might handle image orientation by simply switching X and Y, i.e. actually taking a landscape image as landscape. Samsung devices appa…

@Roy_ILGM can you upload an unaltered image on s3 or something like this so we can reproduce this easily ?

@j.jaffeux @hutchinsfairy [image]

no it’s not what I mean :slight_smile: you need to upload it outside of discourse and give us the url please.

For this one I “emptied” the image orientation field using Edit EXIF, IPTC, XMP data in JPEG photo online - IMG online [image]

@j.jaffeux And here’s one I uploaded to google drive from my device https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_oW0mBNwjf4MThGODFpQ3lPaG8

[image] codinghorror: images store metadata about orientation in them [image] hutchinsfairy: I don’t seem to be abel to see any EXIF info for the uploaded image, perhaps something strips it out when embedding in the topic. Back in 2014 there was a discussion about the EXIF “leaking” lo…

Could the image be rotated according to the EXIF instructions prior to scrubbing?

It is rotated according to the EXIF prior to scrubbing all the metadata :wink:

[image] zogstrip: prior to scrubbing all the metadata Really? All metadata? So people cannot specify their copyright or creative commons license?

Mobile image upload turns sideways

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Mobile image upload turns sideways

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