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[HCW]

Dear moderator, you may have noticed in my last post, I had trouble with a couple different things. First, the orientation of images in my gallery show up right side up, but when I posted them they were up side down. 2ndly in a reply to a fellow member, when I tried to post a smiley face emoji it showed as a ? Mark.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks

 

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[smokeythecat]

A lot of times of times it's how you hold your cell phone if that's how you are using a cell. Pictures on a cell phone have to taken with the phone held horizontally for them to not invert on the site. Otherwise you have to run the photo through an editing software program.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Where did you get the "smiley" if you try to use one off your phone rather than off the website sometimes it will do that because software doesn't recognize it.

On your pictures were they originally shot in landscape or portrait mode?

 

[vpnavy]

Dang - I can't remember when but I searched about this problem and I seem to remember it having to do with iPhone pictures (something to do with the format you use to save the picture) - are you using an iPhone?

Found it...

Just got back from Google - read a ton of similar problems. The common thread is vBulletin (our forum software) has a problem in the way it interprets uploads (landscape vs portrait) and the size of the image. Many experiences show that reducing the size of a image eliminates the auto-rotation that takes place. Funny, this problem was ALWAYS associated with IPhones - now Androids? Hmmm - wonder if a fix for IPhone screwed up Androids? Anyway - next time it happens - try crop'ng the picture a little before upload.

 

[DizzyDigger]

HCW, I corrected the images in your thread "Good Day", and reduced
the average image size from 3MB down to about 800k.

There is an adjustable setting on your phone for the image size. I believe yours is set
to a larger setting, making for very large file sizes and huge images. Images would
post better (correct side up) if you reset that to something along the lines of 1000x800
(or thereabouts). Images would still be plenty big for internet use without any degrading
of the image, and they would load and post much faster.

Don't know if it's the best fix, but the only solution I've found for images posting up
that way is to reduce the image size.