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Testing the upload of some pictures from my phone
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Hmmmmm.
Success!
This has got me scratching my head.
The phone saves pictures taken with the phone in .jpg, and the two pictures I was able to upload are not taken from my phone, but .jpg downloads.
I have done done a third test and can email the picture to myself, then save it, and the upload to the forum post will work.
Weird
Trying to figure out why all of my pictures flip onto the long edge
Angle and rotation of your phone when taking pictures?
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iPhone thing. Editing can help, Using the Image Size app reduces the resolution to make uploading fster, other's viewing faster, and ensures that the photos are not rotated so that's what I do with all my photos. I use the 1000 pixel limit when I resize.
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After a lot of research, I figured out it was a software issue. Cliff note version is that camera cell phones have a default orientation. Mine happens to be landscape. Cell phones then determine the orientation of the picture based on the level and angle detection. The cell phone camera software then places a marker inside the metadata to tell the display software which way to face the picture.
One of two things happened recently. Either my phone camera app changed the way that this metadata is stored, which doesn't allow the forum software to pick it up correctly, or the forum software change the way it reads the metadata, again not allowing it to read the proper orientation.
I have an Android phone with the Google camera app. I'm guessing that when Google updated the camera app on 11-22, it changed the format of the metadata.
However, if I use the portrait setting on my camera, third picture in my test post, is the orientation is correct. So I found my work around.
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The Lit Photo app for Android works great for resizing photos, btw.
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Yakster apparently uses Lil Photo. I use an app simply called Photo Editor. I'm sure there are a jillion others. The key idea is this: Bigger numbers sell more. That's why cell phones are sold by bragging how many too many megapixels the camera captures. And therefore, the average cell phone pic is apt to be too large for the average use of a cell phone pic, which is posting on social media. If you intend to print a poster, you need to break out the megabucks Nikon. If you intend to post a pic of your gar on cigar.com, you need to break out the pic app.
PhotoShop is too complex and counter-intuitive for me. I like the GIMP. But with an android app like Photo Editor, I don't need to fiddle even with that. I can take the pic from within the app itself, crop it, spin it, size it, etc., then save just what I need.
BTW -- How many too many megapixels is not even related to pic quality. Your Nikon DX or FX DSLR is going to set you back a decent used car before you even outfit it with lenses. These attempt to give you a sensor for each color for each pixel. You phone camera, OTOH, just takes a few sensor and multiplies the results. Like take this sensor's pixel, surround it with other pixels of the same color, surround that glob with other pixels interpolated to land in between what this sensor says and what the adjacent ones say, and now you can call it multi too many megabytes and sell that bigger number to a bigger sucker. Look at the size of the camera body and lens. That's the deal. Be much more useful if they advertised how many sensors instead of how many pixels. But they don't.
Not that I am any kind of photo geek. But I researched all this long ago when buying the RedHead a Nikon megabuck camera.
Nor am .An iHead in any sense of the word. iCan't see why iWould. But iAm sure they have an iApp for that.
Bottom line: use an app, flip it the way you want, size it to fit a web page, THEN upload it... easy.
Yer not likely lookin for a super pic... just a cute one.
Very insightful @webmost, thank you.
Continuing to play with settings...
Lol that didn't work. Looking to post a pic without needing to rotate my phone or edit anything, best case scenario. Yes, I'm being obstinate, but so what? Lol...
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