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Need to get my pictures correct orientation and size plus arrange text correctly

Having problems with this what am I doing wrong please
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nalasurf wrote:Need to get my pictures correct orientation and size plus arrange text correctly

Having problems with this what am I doing wrong please

Hi, to get your photos oriented properly, use an image editor to rotate them. Here's a page with some tutorials on it - https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000990.htm

Resizing images is also very simple with any of those image editing programs.


Next, to arrange the images in specific places, if you're uploading an attachment, use the "place inline" function.


Or if you're linking to images hosted elsewhere, you can place IMG tags where you want the photos to show up in the text..
Once you place IMG tags, insert the address of the image location so the text would look like this -
To get the linked image from that site displayed here..




Let me know if you still need help with anything.

This is really helpful, thanks.
One thing I don't understand, in Explorer the image is showing correct orientation, its when I upload it to my post it ends up wrong in landscape mode not portrait which is how I shot it.

I'm no expert on this but from what I understand, digital photos are written using the camera's orientation settings. Explorer and other applications may automatically rotate images for display/preview but our forum software doesn't do that, so all uploaded file attachments will revert to the default settings of the camera.

This question is asked before, and there's no all explaining answer to it.

Unfortunately different cameras and software have different interpretation on the orientation set in the metadata of an image.

We cannot solve that.

This explains it very well: https://www.howtogeek.com/254830/why-yo ... y-rotated/

In short:

• every camera stores every image in landscape mode
• modern cameras add a rotation info to the EXIF metadata
• modern image viewer/editors use that EXIF rotation info and rotate the image
• but sadly some software ignores the EXIF rotation info