Google says: EXIF data is useful information about a JPEG image, hidden inside the file. When images are photographed, digital cameras use orientation sensors to store an EXIF orientation value for how the camera is held. There are 8 possible values (not just landscape and portrait!).
I opened the jpg with GIMP and before opening it a message came up saying..."This image contains EXIF orientation metadata.... would you like to rotate the image." Once I said yes it loaded properly. The picture was taken with my phone in portrait mode.
I've noticed that when I take a picture with my phone in portrait, it for whatever reason loads to my comp sidesways. I have to open the regular picture editor on windows and crop the image just a tad and then once I save it, it saves normal. That's my work around with a similar situation. Real pain..
Thanks for the quick response. The picture is a jpg and is 6m in size. I tried from my linux os and my windows os and the same thing happened. I didn't post the image to see if it would be upright.
This isn't the first time I've heard this. I have not been able to reproduce the issue for whatever. Any details you can give me so we can try to lock down exactly what the problem is would be helpful. Have you tried a few different image sizes or file formats to see if anything like that makes a difference?
