Rotation of an image is stored in the exif data.
When you take an image with your phone in a non upright position the phone will rotate the picture to look like you expect it and write into the exif data.
But the image itself will still be the way it was taken, meaning the data of the image itself is unaltered.
Usually when you send the picture or upload it software will read the exif data and display the image accordingly (rotated). But some sites or some software will ignore or strip the exif data and display the image how it originally looks (non-rotated).
But some sites or some software will ignore or strip the exif data and display the image how it originally looks (non-rotated).
IIRC that’s the case here (Lemmy), for privacy reasons, since the EXIF data stores [hyperbole]even the colour of your underwear when you took the pic[/hyperbole]. I wish that the tidbit about rotation was kept though.
Yeah I’m not sure why it rotated it when I posted and no idea how to fix that sorry
No reason to apologize! It made the image more eye-catching!
Rotation of an image is stored in the exif data.
When you take an image with your phone in a non upright position the phone will rotate the picture to look like you expect it and write into the exif data.
But the image itself will still be the way it was taken, meaning the data of the image itself is unaltered.
Usually when you send the picture or upload it software will read the exif data and display the image accordingly (rotated). But some sites or some software will ignore or strip the exif data and display the image how it originally looks (non-rotated).
IIRC that’s the case here (Lemmy), for privacy reasons, since the EXIF data stores [hyperbole]even the colour of your underwear when you took the pic[/hyperbole]. I wish that the tidbit about rotation was kept though.