In reality, the photo is just sitting there sideways! (by rotating the photo 90 degrees anti-clockwise on the fly). The photo would look 'Normal' when viewed in File Explorer because the operating system creates this 'illusion' This Orientation flag, the photo is displayed in its original state (rotated sideways). Since most foreign servers do not observe It's up to the foreign server to honor the Orientation flag and rotate the photo accordingly (90 degrees anti-clockwise) so that it would be displayed correctly. The reason is because when the photo is handed over to a foreign server (be it a website, email server, etc), Windows maintains the original state of the photo (which was rotated 90 degrees clockwise). It would be displayed as 90 degrees rotated in File Explorer: For example, if a photo was taken with Orientation flag of 'Rotate 90 degrees', We didn't used to pay much attention to this Orientation flag when we tried to edit or resize the images in older versions of Windows (XP, Vista, Windows 7),īecause the images would have been displayed exactly as described by the Orientation flag. 'Rotate x degrees' means that the photo was taken with the phone rotated x degrees (clockwise) from the normal view. For other smart phones, 'Normal' might mean that the photo was taken with the phone positioned vertically (portrait view). Positioned horizontally (landscape view). For certain smart phones, 'Normal' means the photo was taken with the phone Each device has its own definition of 'Normal' though. 'Normal' means there's no camera rotation. There are 4 possible values for the Orientation flag: This Orientation flag describes how many degrees the camera was rotated when the picture was taken. When you take pictures with your iPhone, iPad, Android, or digital cameras, there is an invisible tag called 'Orientation' that is stored in the JPG files.

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