why does when I try to toot pictures it turns them sideways. :( how do I make this not happen

@green If you're holding the camera sideways, it's probably storing it "rotated" relative to what the camera thinks is right-side up. You probably need to tell your phone to turn on auto-rotation so when you snap the photo, the phone/camera realize you're holding it sideways.

@literorrery nope, I was holding the camera upright; when I sent the pictures to my email they came in upright. it's the M$oft photo editor that initially turns them sideways. I turned them back upright when I saved them, but it's evidently not sticking. hmmmm....

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@green @literorrery Some photo editing programs simply change the orientation metadata of a photo instead of physically rotating the photo itself.

The end result is that when you upload that photo to a service that strips metadata (like most web services), the metadata telling the browser the correct orientation is lost and the image appears sideways.

@mawr @literorrery HMMM. when I open the pictures in MSPaint they're showing right side up now, but when I try loading them here they're still sideways. any idea how I can fix this? :|

@literorrery @mawr like, other than "do not use MSPhotoEditor in the future"? >___<

@green @literorrery >..>

Well if you don't want to try something other than MSPhotoEditor... Try saving it as a different format? Maybe PNG?

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