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.

 

[Bird]

WIN8.1 has blazing-fast startup and shutdown.

You ARE kidding, I presume.

 

[oldpilgrim]

WIN8.1 has blazing-fast startup and shutdown.

I agree. At first I didn't think it was a full startup it went so fast.

 

[Soundguy]

i've had 0 problems using my win8.1 phone sending pics to my win8.1 RT surface tablet. My phone is a better camera than phone.. it's the nokia 1020 lumia. lots of camera, and somewhere on the circuit board they wired in enough electronics so it can make a telephone call too.

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.

Thank you for all the help you guys are trying to give me. I appreciate it.

I found out that my camera does have a sensor to detect horizontal or vertical hold position. It can't be turned off. And the windows 8.1 photo viewer does indeed rotate the picture automatically so it is viewed in the correct orientation when a vertical ( Portrait ) picture is taken. But, and a big but if you upload the picture to TBN or other forums it is not automatically rotated and appears 90* off just like the camera was held. If you then rotate the original ( that was originally displayed correctly ) by 90* in an attempt to correct the uploaded images low and behold the uploaded images are now rotated 90* to far. I kid you not. There is no way I can make it upload a portrait oriented photo.

The only other big problem (so far) I have had with 8,1 was connecting the email to a pop3 device, but I got thru that one in two days after a call to the phone company which I should have done first.

 

[rekees4300]

I don't get it. WIN8.1 has blazing-fast startup and shutdown.

I have WIN8, keep getting popups saying free WIN8.1 upgrade is available ... lipstick on a pig. Just going to wait for WIN10 next year.

 

[Soundguy]

You ARE kidding, I presume.

it really does depend. I use a variety of tablets and netbooks.. ( CONVERTABLE..E TC )

i KNOW ASUS NETBOOKS OFFER A FASTBOOT FEATURE.

mY WIFE HAS A WIN8 LAPTOP AS WELL. ( darn capslock )

all of them boot faster than a winxp desktop i resurected a few weeks ago... or my vista laptop at work.

 

[dfkrug]

You ARE kidding, I presume.

Kidding? Not me. Yeah, change is hard, but that extra speed is great. New ASUS desktop,
and a cheap Intel G3220 Pentium 3GHz processor.

 

[Xfaxman]

--- WIN8.1 has blazing-fast startup and shutdown. ---

You ARE kidding, I presume.

What is your startup time?

Shutdown could not be any faster, when I click Hibernate the screen goes blank.

I checked startup this morning, pushed Power, 20 blazing-fast seconds later I was reading email.

I have a Dell XPS18 All-In-One. I don't plan on going to Windows 10 at this time.

 

[radioman]

Thank you for all the help you guys are trying to give me. I appreciate it.

I found out that my camera does have a sensor to detect horizontal or vertical hold position. It can't be turned off. And the windows 8.1 photo viewer does indeed rotate the picture automatically so it is viewed in the correct orientation when a vertical ( Portrait ) picture is taken. But, and a big but if you upload the picture to TBN or other forums it is not automatically rotated and appears 90* off just like the camera was held. If you then rotate the original ( that was originally displayed correctly ) by 90* in an attempt to correct the uploaded images low and behold the uploaded images are now rotated 90* to far. I kid you not. There is no way I can make it upload a portrait oriented photo.

The only other big problem (so far) I have had with 8,1 was connecting the email to a pop3 device, but I got thru that one in two days after a call to the phone company which I should have done first.

Sounds like you were uploading pics directly from camera to tbn instead of importing to pc folder and then pick pics from the pc folder directly.

I have WIN8, keep getting popups saying free WIN8.1 upgrade is available ... lipstick on a pig. Just going to wait for WIN10 next year.

I hope you are kidding. Unless you like the win 8 ways, I prefer 8.1 . its more familiar to desktop, it lets you do MORE desktop stuff from apps screen, gives you an apps list, updated explorer for better security, etc. I dont care if the updates is free -- its part of MS security and improvements - just do it. If you dont, then you fall in the catergory of those who help to infect other pcs without protecting your own pc. Look - I'm sorry if I sound harsh but its a pet peeve of mine where poeple say they have problems and I go and take a look. They havent EVEN done ONE updates. This is irresponsible IMHO. Whats the harm of accepting updates from a known source .. IE Microsoft updates.

 

[rekees4300]

I spent a couple months tweaking WIN8 to make it resemble WIN7. I don't use or even display the ludicrous "apps screen". When I power up it goes directly to the desktop. I do apply all updates to WIN8 but WIN8.1 is an upgrade (not an update). I'm not going to risk 8.1 wiping out all the time I have spent tweaking 8. I also don't like the fact you have to open a M$ST account in order to install 8.1. I decline to give those propeller-heads any of my personal info! Their so-called "store" is a joke.