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imported flickr photos not rotated correctly
The most recent (as of 10/14/08) photo imported from my flickr feed is not rotated into the correct orientation. If I click the photo in soup, it takes me to flickr where it *is* in the correct orientation.
My camera always uploads photos in landscape, so I have to rotate them manually in flickr if I want actually took the picture in portrait orientation.
Slightly off topic... I've evaluated a handful of lifestream apps over the last week or two, and I'm happy to report that soup.io is much more functional and polished than all of the others I tried. I'm hoping that pointing out the few areas where soup.io is not the clear winner is helpful!
Thanks in advance,
Gary
My camera always uploads photos in landscape, so I have to rotate them manually in flickr if I want actually took the picture in portrait orientation.
Slightly off topic... I've evaluated a handful of lifestream apps over the last week or two, and I'm happy to report that soup.io is much more functional and polished than all of the others I tried. I'm hoping that pointing out the few areas where soup.io is not the clear winner is helpful!
Thanks in advance,
Gary
I’m delighted with the soup support responses so far
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Inappropriate?Sorry for the late reply, we have been busy working on various performance problems in the last few days.
The problem with the rotation is, that we import the original Picture you uploaded to Flickr (as we want the biggest possible size, so we can scale down without problems), and Flickr doesn't rotate the original picture.
Now, if there was an easy way to get an image's rotation, we would be one step closer to the solution. But this information has to be fetched via the Flickr API, and this would mean a lot more effort for us.
If that would be all, we would still consider fixing this problem, but: Flickr doesn't tell us when they update that data, there is an "updated" field in their ATOM/RSS stream, but it doesn't get updated when you change the rotation.
I will write an email to Flickr about that last issue, but quite frankly, I don't believe they care enough to fix this (maybe that bug is actually a feature, who knows..).
I’m hating it when things are almost impossible to fix
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Inappropriate?Hi Lukas,
Thanks for the reply!
Maybe an option to import one of the correctly rotated, but already scaled down images (if such a thing exists in flickr) would be a good compromise? There doesn't seem to be much advantage in using up all your bandwidth on giant photos only to scale them down for display in soup... the compromise would be to have a smaller lightbox when the image is clicked on, or maybe just take the user directly to the large image at flickr.com?
Cheers,
Gary
I’m happy that it's being looked into!
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Inappropriate?Grateful that this is looked into. Having a lot of trouble with this problem on my Flickr RSS feed. It's actually very frustrating.
Thanks to Gary for having asked the good question.
I’m confident
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Inappropriate?Sorry for the late answer (again, *sigh*), we've been extremely busy.
Your suggestion unfortunately wouldn't help the real problem: We don't have any idea when somebody rotated his photo on Flickr.
Usually our importer will run before you have found the time to rotate it, and Flickr doesn't update their RSS feed when you change the rotation.
As noted above, I'm trying to resolve this issue with Flickr. Can't give any ETA though, it all depends on them.
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