I’m a 13 year veteran of Reddit but mostly as a lurker. I’m trying to actually post stuff to help this place grow.

I don’t seem to be able to figure out how to rotate the pic. All of the pics I’ve tried from my photo library are showing up sideways.

One of the subs I’m missing is VelvetHippos so I created a community here: https://sh.itjust.works/c/velvethippos

  •  WalterLatrans   ( @WalterLatrans@yiffit.net ) English
    2•1 year ago

    Interesting about the pic rotation issue. There’s generally two ways that apps handle photo rotation, they either rewrite the file with the new arrangement of pixels or they mark a piece of metadata inside the file to indicate the true orientation. It looks like somewhere in the software chain that orientation metadata is not being respected.

    Lemmy is certainly still having growing pains, hopefully as more people use it and more people choose to develop for it these issues will work themselves out. Until then you might be able to get around that by putting the images though some sort of editing software. Likely most image editors will be able to fix the rotation issue and write the file out with the actual arrangement of pixels necessary to avoid gravity deifying doggos.

    •  Undeadpony   ( @Undeadpony@beehaw.org ) OPEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Yeah, I know I could have opened it in a photo editor and saved a new copy. I was just hoping I missed the option while posting. Kind of a pain but the Lemmy software is super new and rotation might be added in the future.

      I’m quite sure he is gravity deifying. I think he might be made out of dark matter. He is such a dense/thick boy. I always think of Nibbler’s poop (Futurama) when people comment about how heavy he feels when he gets in their lap.