Keeping the Citroen vibe alive. I had a ride to the end of Southport Pier in the sunshine today, and saw what I thought was
an old Citroen H ice-cream van. Looking closer it turned out to be a fibreglass body masquerading as one, clue, no doors-no front wheels, a Citreonon - rouler in fact.
Hmm....having had to take an extra 1.5 Hr bus journey back home, heart sank on finding the upper deck crowded with teenagers. All presumably from the less salubrious decaying pit village corner of the county
I descended to the lower deck, to find the first hour of the journey accompanied by teenage choral sing-alongs of "Dancing Queen" and the like! Don't know why it was all 60/70's stuff, but quite enjoyable
thirdcrank wrote: ↑25 Oct 2021, 3:08pm
Two metres seems to be a bit of a long shot
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The software has rotated the pic, it wasn't my head spinning
Here you are TC:
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Suppose that this room is a lift. The support breaks and down we go with ever-increasing velocity. Let us pass the time by performing physical experiments... --- Arthur Eddington (creator of the Eddington Number).
I can rotate pictures. In the last couple of days I've posted two pics, both taken on my phone and upright (both me and the images.)
In the first case - Citreon (sic) Berlingo - I checked my post before submission and the image had been mysteriously rotated so I started again, derotating (?) the image if you see what I mean, but when I posted afresh, the image was still rotated. So I left it. With this latest image I just left it.
FWIW, on Thursday I posted a pic taken with my camera - all the right way up.
I see several other posters have recently had rotated images. As Toyah Wilcox might have sung ......It's a mystery to me.
The specification uses the following existing file formats with the addition of specific metadata tags: JPEG discrete cosine transform (DCT)[3] for compressed image files, TIFF Rev. 6.0 (RGB or YCbCr) for uncompressed image files, and RIFF WAV for audio files (Linear PCM or ITU-T G.711 μ-Law PCM for uncompressed audio data, and IMA-ADPCM for compressed audio data).
I'd be risking The King's New Clothes if I didn't admit it's still a mystery to me. Few phone pics is the quick fix.
thirdcrank wrote: ↑25 Oct 2021, 10:07pm
Thanks for that. From the link
The specification uses the following existing file formats with the addition of specific metadata tags: JPEG discrete cosine transform (DCT)[3] for compressed image files, TIFF Rev. 6.0 (RGB or YCbCr) for uncompressed image files, and RIFF WAV for audio files (Linear PCM or ITU-T G.711 μ-Law PCM for uncompressed audio data, and IMA-ADPCM for compressed audio data).
I'd be risking The King's New Clothes if I didn't admit it's still a mystery to me. Few phone pics is the quick fix.
Users have two main options for bypassing the problem:
1 Find a workflow that doesn't cause rotation and rigidly stick to it.
2 Upload the photo and then rotate/upload or download/rotate/upload it if needed until it's right.
Nowadays, these decals (?) are much easier to remove/apply than was once the case. Perhaps somebody thought they were correcting a typo.
Down memory lane, I have a vague recollection of a Ford Saloon being nicked in Leeds (late 1960s) and a distinguishing feature was that the blue oval Ford decal on one of the front wings had been fitted upside down. I can't remember much about it but after it had been outstanding months, I spotted the car (not the decal) where it had been parked unobtrusively in a side street but not where it would annoy any residents. So, covered in a film of muck and I suspect the tax disc would have expired which was probably what caught my eye.
All I did was copy the image, paste it into PaintShopPro (which I use in preference to Photoshop), rotate, save as a new .JPG image, then upload it. I think that gets rid of any tag conflicts. If you haven't got PSP or Photoshop, you can do the same with MS Paint which comes free with Windows.
I don't know what the options are for other OS's e.g. Android.
Suppose that this room is a lift. The support breaks and down we go with ever-increasing velocity. Let us pass the time by performing physical experiments... --- Arthur Eddington (creator of the Eddington Number).
(There was a time when reducing the size of a file was the big issue when attaching pics. Thanks to the the wonders of science - and probably some extra work from Fonant - it now does it all by itself. I'll restrict myself to the occasional subject worth digging out a camera.)
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Not so much laugh but wince
I've just seen a new tranny van, professionally liveried belonging to a garden design company with a list of their wares/ services on all three sides including
gbnz wrote: ↑25 Oct 2021, 8:35pm
Hmm....having had to take an extra 1.5 Hr bus journey back home, heart sank on finding the upper deck crowded with teenagers. All presumably from the less salubrious decaying pit village corner of the county
I descended to the lower deck, to find the first hour of the journey accompanied by teenage choral sing-alongs of "Dancing Queen" and the like! Don't know why it was all 60/70's stuff, but quite enjoyable