Comments on: Christmas Present to me from me

By: Sharyn n Den

Sharyn n Den — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:30:02 +0000

they certainly look very cute – i think you were very kind spliiting the pair
but i suppose only 1 bum at a time needs to be warm

By: Fergy

Fergy — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:43:45 +0000

Sorry…not sure if I follow…you bought them in April, they arrived in Scotland in July and you put them in your car in October…what’s that got to do with Christmas?

By: Fergy

Fergy — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:40:55 +0000

You are so right…I want one. Linda – I’m so jealous….ssssooooo jealous.

This would be so much better than my hand stitched black nappa leather seats.

And…let’s be honest here…quite a bit cooler, don’t you think?

By: Vera

Vera — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:34:14 +0000

Well that explains it – I was in fact, leaning into the car at an angle when I took the pic.

By: Callum

Callum — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:54:55 +0000

Ahh, picture rotation. It’s a weird thing. It breaks down like this…

When you take a picture, as well as the photograph, the camera writes extra information into the file. It usually writes the date and time you took the picture. Then various camera settings (shutter speed, aperture, focal length, other technical data). The camera can also store orientation information which says “this picture was taken with the camera on its side”.

Picasa recognises that data and then flips the picture so you see it correctly rotated. However, WordPress doesn’t recognise that data. Well, it does, but it doesn’t do anything about it. It’s something that WordPress might do automatically in the future, but there are a few technical reasons that make it difficult.

The solution is to save the picture again before uploading it. I’m not 100% sure how to do that in Picasa, maybe Fergus knows. On my computer I open it in a program called gthumb and click save. That saves a copy with the actual image rotated, and then the upload works fine.