The 1947 - Present Chevrolet & GMC Truck Message Board Network

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I give up. EDIT: no not really

EDIT: snipped out now irrelevant words...

WTH is going on? Exactly what data does this site use to gather the orientation of an inbound image? It is NOT EXIF(Orientation) so it must be something else.

What do I have to do to get these images uploaded correctly?

BTW I have successfully uploaded 100s of images to this site in the past without having this issue. Something has changed to cause this.

EDIT: A WORKAROUND SOLUTION: Must open each image in an image editing application (paint, irfanview64, etc) and simply save it using File=>Save or something similar. The resulting file will upload correctly on Vbulletin. Make no mistake, it is Vbulletin that is the culprit for ALL of these image upload problems EVERYBODY has at one time or another. The board software is simply too basic to worry about or modify image uploading characteristics. It was all probably written for message boards in the beginning that didn't include images...just text. It is ridiculous and a major pain that Vbulletin does NOT care. They say their software is working as designed...yeah well maybe so but the design is flawed. There are very specific and distinctive Orientation data metrics embedded in each and every image but Vbulletin chooses to ignore these things and do something else, something non standard and something they don't seem to publish.

Fortunately, I think I found a way to do this in Batch to any number of files using IrfanView image viewer.

Download and install Irfanview:
https://www.irfanview.com/main_download_engl.htm

Use these instructions to open Irfanview and get into the batch mode and execute a Resize and Save against all images in a given directory on your pc:
https://www.ofzenandcomputing.com/ba...ges-irfanview/

This will resize them to a size appropriate for vBullitin and by saving the file will then allow vBullitin to display them correctly.

The resize options are: set length and width to 1440 by 1080 pixels. Other options: don't enlarge smaller images, overwrite existing files, use resample function, preserve aspect ratio, apply changes to all pages...you'll also need to edit the output location to your current folder where you want to resize and save every file there.

This is all moot if the images you need to "fix" are few. I have nearly 200 this time so doing it manually wasn't an option...had to automate it.

-Kevin