I have noticed a problem that sometimes happens when uploading photos. That is, they end up in the wrong orientation, posted sideways, instead of as they actually are.
This seems to happen randomly, and without relation to whether or not the photo was rotated in Photoshop during editing preparation, or not. Sometimes, running the photo back through PS and re-rotating it helps; usually not.
It would be very helpful, therefore, if within the photo capsule upload area, there was an option for rotating the picture if it comes out rotated the wrong way.
If the problem cannot be fixed, the photo must either be re-taken (not always possible), or substituted for a less-desirable public domain image, or worst of all, left as-is, which looks very odd and unprofessional.
Can we get a "rotate" option, please?
The HubPages photo capsules should display images in the exact orientation in which it was uploaded.
I double checked with our engineering team and the photo capsule should also rotate images based on the orientation information (if present) in the Exif data. Simply, this is metadata your camera writes to a JPEG or other image file telling other programs that it was shot in portrait or landscape mode.
For now, I would suggest using the photo editing features or software on your computer and upload the image in the desired orientation.
If you have examples of specific images form your camera that are not being re-oriented on upload based on the Exif info, please let me know and we can do further testing with the exact image.
You may want to see if you can find a program for Windows XP that will show you the Exif info as well.
xnView may be a good option.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XnView
I agree the ability to rotate and image would be a helpful feature and have forwarded it to our engineering team to be considered as a future feature.
Interesting, because the image I had trouble with this time was not rotated, (in other words, I did not rotate the camera to a "higher than wide" position), either when I took the photo, or in Photoshop.
In fact, I had to go back into Photoshop and rotate it to an INCORRECT (90 degrees clockwise) position, in order to have it upload correctly for my article...which was uploading the photo rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise from how it was originally taken and uploaded, i.e., normal position.
Thank you very much for suggesting this to your engineering department!
I've never had this happen to me. I wonder why it happens when you upload photos.
I have no idea, but I've had it happen both in Chrome and Firefox.
I no longer use IE at all; it's way too slow and unstable.
I've had the same problem but only when I had to rotate the photo using my graphics program. Most of them were scans of photos so all I had to do was change the orientation of the original and scan it again. The weird part is that it doesn't happen every time.
That's true, sheilamyers, it is an intermittent problem, which makes it nearly impossible to track down.
I suspect this is caused by the orientation metadata in your photo. I get rid of this by changing photo format (e.g. jpg to png)
Hmmm....but I wonder, how would that information be 'wrong' when no change happened from how it was taken, to how it appeared after uploading to computer, and no orientation edit was done in photoshop?????
by LeonJane 15 years ago
Hi all, I searched for this topic before posting and haven't found anything similar.I am having problems with the photo capsule. When I insert a photo capsule and then open it for editing somehow my screen jumps to the top of the page. I have to scroll back down to the capsule and try and load a...
by Wendy Hughes 10 years ago
I know traffic is a problem everywhere it seems; I'm not talking about low traffic, here. We all need to be aware of the HP's photo capsule may be affecting our bounce rates. There is a real problem if you use the photo capsule for anything-- even the intro photo. I'm NOT referring to the images...
by Pat Goltz 10 years ago
Folks, yesterday I was trying to upload some images onto an existing hub. It had been imported from Squidoo, and in the original Lens, I had used links to images on my personal web site, which apparently HubPages doesn't support. I succeeded in uploading one image to replace an imported image, and...
by Faith Reaper 11 years ago
In a recent HubPages weekly email, it was discussing the fact that many use photos and do not provide a source. I was thinking that this may easily be addressed by HP by requiring a source in the source field inside the photo capsule, whether it is "self" or the Freedigitalphotos,...
by Hello, hello, 14 years ago
I found it very hard to work with it, almost impossible. As before I clicked on Computer, press Browse,and had the picture. had all my uploaded pictures there and pressed to uploade it. Now I can't get into my picture file. I can't download all the pictures for my hubs about a country.
by Donna Nitz Muller 10 years ago
Hello. I am not able to add text in my photo capsules. Hence I have not been able to title or comment with my pictures. I'm sure it is me. I do click the appropriate space but I can't type into it. This is a problem. Is there something I need to do? Thank you.
Copyright © 2025 The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers on this website. HubPages® is a registered trademark of The Arena Platform, Inc. Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website.
Copyright © 2025 Maven Media Brands, LLC and respective owners.
As a user in the EEA, your approval is needed on a few things. To provide a better website experience, hubpages.com uses cookies (and other similar technologies) and may collect, process, and share personal data. Please choose which areas of our service you consent to our doing so.
For more information on managing or withdrawing consents and how we handle data, visit our Privacy Policy at: https://corp.maven.io/privacy-policy
Show DetailsNecessary | |
---|---|
HubPages Device ID | This is used to identify particular browsers or devices when the access the service, and is used for security reasons. |
Login | This is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service. |
Google Recaptcha | This is used to prevent bots and spam. (Privacy Policy) |
Akismet | This is used to detect comment spam. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Google Analytics | This is used to provide data on traffic to our website, all personally identifyable data is anonymized. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Traffic Pixel | This is used to collect data on traffic to articles and other pages on our site. Unless you are signed in to a HubPages account, all personally identifiable information is anonymized. |
Amazon Web Services | This is a cloud services platform that we used to host our service. (Privacy Policy) |
Cloudflare | This is a cloud CDN service that we use to efficiently deliver files required for our service to operate such as javascript, cascading style sheets, images, and videos. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Hosted Libraries | Javascript software libraries such as jQuery are loaded at endpoints on the googleapis.com or gstatic.com domains, for performance and efficiency reasons. (Privacy Policy) |
Features | |
---|---|
Google Custom Search | This is feature allows you to search the site. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Maps | Some articles have Google Maps embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Charts | This is used to display charts and graphs on articles and the author center. (Privacy Policy) |
Google AdSense Host API | This service allows you to sign up for or associate a Google AdSense account with HubPages, so that you can earn money from ads on your articles. No data is shared unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Google YouTube | Some articles have YouTube videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Vimeo | Some articles have Vimeo videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Paypal | This is used for a registered author who enrolls in the HubPages Earnings program and requests to be paid via PayPal. No data is shared with Paypal unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Login | You can use this to streamline signing up for, or signing in to your Hubpages account. No data is shared with Facebook unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Maven | This supports the Maven widget and search functionality. (Privacy Policy) |
Marketing | |
---|---|
Google AdSense | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Google DoubleClick | Google provides ad serving technology and runs an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Index Exchange | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Sovrn | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Ads | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Unified Ad Marketplace | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
AppNexus | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Openx | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Rubicon Project | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
TripleLift | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Say Media | We partner with Say Media to deliver ad campaigns on our sites. (Privacy Policy) |
Remarketing Pixels | We may use remarketing pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to advertise the HubPages Service to people that have visited our sites. |
Conversion Tracking Pixels | We may use conversion tracking pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to identify when an advertisement has successfully resulted in the desired action, such as signing up for the HubPages Service or publishing an article on the HubPages Service. |
Statistics | |
---|---|
Author Google Analytics | This is used to provide traffic data and reports to the authors of articles on the HubPages Service. (Privacy Policy) |
Comscore | ComScore is a media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, media and advertising agencies, and publishers. Non-consent will result in ComScore only processing obfuscated personal data. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Tracking Pixel | Some articles display amazon products as part of the Amazon Affiliate program, this pixel provides traffic statistics for those products (Privacy Policy) |
Clicksco | This is a data management platform studying reader behavior (Privacy Policy) |