User talk:JohannesJ

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Sorry, title wrong

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I made a mistake uploading a picture with a wrong title. It did not register in my mind till it was too late. I noted the necessary change here: [1]. I don't know where else to put in a request for change. --JohannesJ (talk) 10:47, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Upload it under the right name and tag the old image with either {{Bad name}} or {{Duplicate}} (it's still impossible to rename images without reuploading). Multichill (talk) 12:02, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

90 degrees

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I have a few photograpghs that look perfectly normal when I click them on my screen, but when I try to upload them they are turned 90 degrees, sideways. I don't know how to fix that. Anyone? --JohannesJ (talk) 11:18, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Upload it tagged with {{rotate|90}}? Multichill (talk) 12:00, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

• Some softwares (Apple's software in particular) store the orientation of the image in an EXIF field, and then displays it accordingly. It means that a portrait-oriented photo is typically stored as a landscape-oriented photo, and a flag tells the software to display it rotated by say 90°. When you then upload such files to Commons, it is not aware of that EXIF flag, and displays the image as-is. To fix it, you can either use a software that relly performs rotation, or if the file is on Commons already, use {{90}} to have Rotatebot perform the rotation for you (and I think this is the best way to go for JPEGs because it performs the rotation losslessly). --Tryphon (talk) 12:04, 28 January 2009 (UTC)