We see this a lot more on our forum too. Thus far, it's always associated with smartphone images taken in the portrait orientation that get rotated 90 degrees. In portrait mode the orientation seems to be 9:16 instead of 16:9 (1920 x 1080 widescreen) and I think the forum or our Lightbox extension reorients it to 16:9 which then flips the image sideways.
I've added a forum image How-To asking users to take photographs in landscape 16:9 mode (see below), but it's difficult to force them to read or do anything.![Image]()
Our forum is small, so I end up using Windows picture and fax viewer or Photoshop to rotate and save the images, before replacing them on the forum. Almost always portrait pictures are of the incorrect orientation to begin with. The image should have been taken in landscape widescreen, but I think kids these days see people on TV doing it that way, so they copy it. Cropping the image tops and bottoms off into 4:3 orientation works well too in many cases, so the image displays in the best possible clarity for both smartphone and PC users.
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I've added a forum image How-To asking users to take photographs in landscape 16:9 mode (see below), but it's difficult to force them to read or do anything.
Our forum is small, so I end up using Windows picture and fax viewer or Photoshop to rotate and save the images, before replacing them on the forum. Almost always portrait pictures are of the incorrect orientation to begin with. The image should have been taken in landscape widescreen, but I think kids these days see people on TV doing it that way, so they copy it. Cropping the image tops and bottoms off into 4:3 orientation works well too in many cases, so the image displays in the best possible clarity for both smartphone and PC users.
Statistics: Posted by SQLnovice — Tue Aug 13, 2024 4:41 pm