Image rotated incorrectly when uploaded to "File Manager"

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Hello Sitejet Community

Just to share a new learning that I came across. If you have any photo taken with a smartphone or digital camera, you could face the issue of your photo might rotate incorrectly when you/your client upload them to your File Manager.

Root cause & Solution as below:-

Photos taken with a smartphone or digital camera contain “Exif data,” all sorts of information about where the photo was taken, when it was taken, and even how the camera was oriented. When uploaded to File Manager, this data is preserved, and that can often cause the orientation of the picture to be rotated.

To prevent this, it’s necessary to remove the Exif data from the image before it is uploaded. There are free online tools available to do this, such as View Exif data online, remove Exif online. Once you scrub the Exif data, you can rotate the picture and it will remain in the correct orientation when it is uploaded.

Original Link:https://www.finalsitesupport.com/hc/en-us/articles/360034962512-Quick-tip-Image-is-rotated-incorrectly-when-uploaded

Big thanks to André and Martin for the great support as always!
ST

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Just in case above still not working as expected, you can try to use a different image editor tool to rotate your image, e.g. right click to select “Edit with Photos”, then save your image after you rotated it.

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Thank you soooooo much for this @ST_T7 - that was fun finding a solution for this :slight_smile:

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