Just got windows 8.1. Portrait pics show up as landscape on TBN ????

[Gordon Gould]

Just got 8.1 - Ugh
On XP I could rotate a photo to portrait using the windows pic display rotate command and when I uploaded it to TBN it would be in portrait format like it should. When I do the same thing using 8.1 The picture is rotated to portrait on my computer display but if I upload the picture it is displayed as landscape as if the rotate command did not alter the format to portrait.

Does anyone know how to fix this other than always hold the camera horizontally ie landscape ???

 

[Rustyiron]

I feel your pain brother.
My old XP went blue, just as I was kinda learning a few things. Heard that win. 8 was crap and went with Mac, they say their "intuitive", yeah, right!

 

[Bird]

Yep, I've been using Windows 8.1 for quite awhile now, and it's the worst thing that ever happened to computers as far as I'm concerned. I sure wish I'd stayed with Windows 7.

 

[Xfaxman]

I am using Windows 8.1 on a touch screen computer and love it. :thumbsup:

Also on Chrome, not IE.

Have not had any problems with rotated pictures, but they are taken with a camera, not a phone.

 

[radioman]

first off - windows 8.1 users were supposed to get win9 free updates this month , but MS decided to skip and go straight to windows 10 . They were going to bring back the start button but combine the tiles format IN the start button. sigh!
anyways If your camera can detect whether you take pictures vertically or horizontally (usually by using a sensor that can tell how the camera is oriented), your computer can automatically rotate JPEG pictures to the correct orientation when they are imported. If you use this option, you will not have to manually rotate pictures that appear sideways on your computer, and it does not affect the image quality of your pictures. Windows does this by default, but you can turn this feature off.

In windows gallery app -So question is - does your camera has a orientation sensor? of not, it will not auto rotate for you. doesnt matter if it a hand held or phone type. If it does, you can turn the feature on, but I am baffled since I thought it was on by default.

 

[Gordon Gould]

first off - windows 8.1 users were supposed to get win9 free updates this month , but MS decided to skip and go straight to windows 10 . They were going to bring back the start button but combine the tiles format IN the start button. sigh!
anyways If your camera can detect whether you take pictures vertically or horizontally (usually by using a sensor that can tell how the camera is oriented), your computer can automatically rotate JPEG pictures to the correct orientation when they are imported. If you use this option, you will not have to manually rotate pictures that appear sideways on your computer, and it does not affect the image quality of your pictures. Windows does this by default, but you can turn this feature off.

In windows gallery app -So question is - does your camera has a orientation sensor? of not, it will not auto rotate for you. doesnt matter if it a hand held or phone type. If it does, you can turn the feature on, but I am baffled since I thought it was on by default.

Thanks. With my old computer running XP if I held the camera vertically the uploaded pic would display sideways. I could rotate it with the windows pic displayer or a photo program. If I displayed the pic or uploaded it to TBN after that it was always displayed correctly.

With my new computer running 8,1 and same camera if I up load a vertical (portrait) picture from the camera it is displayed correctly. I don't know if the camera has a sensor. But if it does XP did not use it. If I upload it to TBN or insert it in a word document it is displayed sideways even though it is OK on the window viewer. If I rotate it using the word image editor so it displays OK in word then save it and then upload that saved version to TBN it is still sideways on TBN and also sideways on the windows viewer.
So a sideways photo and its rotated ( by word) cousin both show sideways on TBN

I don't have a clue here. any suggestions are appreciated. thanks.

 

[/pine]

FWIW...I understand that M$FT is going to give Win 8.1 users free upgrades to Win 9...or Win 10

No details on when the upgrades will be available...

 

[Xfaxman]

Thanks. With my old computer running XP if I held the camera vertically the uploaded pic would display sideways. I could rotate it with the windows pic displayer or a photo program. If I displayed the pic or uploaded it to TBN after that it was always displayed correctly.

With my new computer running 8,1 and same camera if I up load a vertical (portrait) picture from the camera it is displayed correctly. I don't know if the camera has a sensor. But if it does XP did not use it. If I upload it to TBN or insert it in a word document it is displayed sideways even though it is OK on the window viewer. If I rotate it using the word image editor so it displays OK in word then save it and then upload that saved version to TBN it is still sideways on TBN and also sideways on the windows viewer.
So a sideways photo and its rotated ( by word) cousin both show sideways on TBN

I don't have a clue here. any suggestions are appreciated. thanks.

I just now downloaded your sideways picture from Todays Seat Time to my 4TBN (the 4 puts it at the top of the list) folder in My Pictures. This time I opened it with Windows Photo Viewer, rotated it, clicked the red X to close the viewer and it was topside up in the 4TBN folder.

I tried the procedure again and rotated it topside down, closed the viewer and it stored it that way.


So that is a quick way to rotate them and they stay rotated. :thumbsup:

 

[rekees4300]

Does anyone know how to fix this other than always hold the camera horizontally ie landscape ???

Are you clicking "Save Copy" after you rotate the photo?

FWIW...I understand that M$FT is going to give Win 8.1 users free upgrades to Win 9...or Win 10

No details on when the upgrades will be available...

M$FT hasn't announced its Windows 10 marketing strategy. Speculation is mid 2015 for availability. Free isn't good enough, they should pay customers to upgrade after POS Windows 8.

 

[dfkrug]

Free isn't good enough, they should pay customers to upgrade after POS
Windows 8.

I don't get it. WIN8.1 has blazing-fast startup and shutdown. The only significant learning needed by
most WINXP/Vista/7 users is where the OFF button is, and the one-click toggle to get the screen to go
from tablet mode (touch) and desktop mode (mouse).

My only complaint is I had to buy Office 2013 as my Office 2000 has at last reached its compatibility limit.