WordPress rotates my images so they are on their sides. How do I stop this?
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When I upload my image, WordPress rotates it so it is on its side. How do I stop WordPress from rotating my images? This has started to happen recently. It did not happen with my Nikon 4500. I thought this had only to do with images that I shot with the camera rotated (ex: I tilt the camera clockwise to shoot a picture. I obviously have to rotate the picture clockwise in Photoshop to prepare it for my blog. But then WordPress rotates it AGAIN after I have saved it properly in Photoshop). However, I recently found WordPress rotated one photo I took with the camera just normal; and also, WordPress does not rotate all the images I take with the camera rotated, just most of them. How do I stop WordPress from rotating uploaded photos?
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This is the official announcement for the (bizarre) change:
…the easiest way to fix it would be to find another host for your photos, something like http://PhotoBucket.com (yes) or http://Flickr.com (meh). Then just add the link(s) to your post.
According to the announcement, when you save the photo in your editor, the EXIF data will change and the WordPress media thing will automatically orient the photo to how you saved it.
When you rotate photos by hand the software you use (usually) resets the EXIF orientation, so the image will not be rotated again after uploading.
Obviously this might not always be the case. I’ll tag this so a moderator or staff member can explain…
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Thanks for your reply. Clearly this is not working as it says in the quote. So, Photoshop is not overwriting the information, then, when I resave the rotated (cropped, shrunk, color balanced, etc) image? Close to 100% of the images that I rotate (and I can’t edit properly without rotating them) WP rotates again. I really am not interested in having to upload pnotos to one site and link them from WP. That would be a real pain. I hope they work this out soon.
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I really am not interested in having to upload pnotos to one site and link them from WP.
Honestly, it takes the same amount of time uploading to PhotoBucket as it does uploading to WordPress and inserting the photo with their WP URL, plus the archives at PhotoBucket work much better.
Check back later, hopefully a staff member will have the time to respond soon.
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Hm. I position my cursor, click on the upload icon, browse my hard drive (only once – for the next photos it remembers the location) and click on the appropriate photo, and choose its centering. No URL to copy or anything like that. I do use Photobucket for other sites so I know how to use it, but it does seem more cumbersome than the WP direct insertion I use now.
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When you’re editing / creating your post, click the media button and ‘insert from URL’, then paste in the PhotoBucket URL. All the same options are there — alignment / alt text / caption / other stuff — that are there for the ‘From Computer’ option.
I just timed it (unscientifically), and it took less time with the ‘From URL’ option… not including the time it took to open PB and upload the image there…
FWIW: I don’t work for PhotoBucket.
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macmanx: All files are landscape when they come from the camera. Let’s talk about wine bottles, b/c that is the most frequent image I rotate. I shoot with my camera tilted 90 degrees clockwise, so the downloaded image on my computer is 90 degrees CCW from what it should be – top of bottle to the left. I pull the image up in Photoshop, rotate it 90 degrees CW to make the bottle upright so I can really see the image correctly, mess with size, cropping, color balance, brightness, contrast, and all that, and resave under a new filename with the bottle upright (in portrait format). When I upload from my computer to WP, the file becomes rotated CW so the top of the bottle now points to the right. I have to re-rotate it to get it back to the correct, upright orientation that exists on my hard drive.
feartheseeds: Thanks for checking that out, and LOL about not working for Pbucket – I had no such suspicions :) Your final phrase is my objection to the whole Pbucket thing: “…not including the time it took to open PB abd upload the image there”. Why spend that extra time to put photos somewhere I don’t want them for any other purpose, when WP should just.. ya know… work! :)
I appreciate all your time, responders – Thanks!
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Yes, as detailed in the article feartheseeds mentioned, we now have the ability to automatically rotate photos based on your camera’s orientation.
Does this work properly for the original, un-rotated and straight-from-the-camera, photos?
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The article feartheseeds cited said that a photo rotated by hand in a photo program should not be further rotated. My experience is that this is not true. My question is how to keep WP from doing the extra rotate to already-rotated pictures.
Regarding photos that I have not hand rotated: the only reason not to rotate a photo is that it doesn’t need it, and yes, photos taken with the camera held in normal position are not typically rotated. However, that did happen once. A photo taken in normal landscape mode was rotated 90 degrees CCW. No clue where that came from!
I have never posted a photo to WP that has not been altered in Photoshop. I reduce them to the size I want them to be on the screen, if nothing else. (I almost always play with color balance and contrast, b/c I am shooting dinners under horrid lighting conditions.) If a photo needs rotating, I do that 100% of the time in Photoshop before uploading to WP, because it is impossible to see a photo properly when it’s lying on its side. You can’t straighten, skew, or crop a photo correctly unless you are looking at it in a proper view. I do not use any editing software other than Pshop.
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