Recently a client observed that photos she uploaded to her WordPress blog appeared fine on her computer, but were upside down when viewed on an iPhone or iPad.

This is NOT a problem if you prepare your images for use on the web by editing them on your computer. 

I have been recommending Webresizer.com  for patrons who don’t have photo editing software — or don’t know how to use what they’ve got. 

Images optimized at Webresizer.com retain the camera’s exif data and if you rotate the image in the edit process it will be fine in operating systems and software that ignores the EXIF data, but cause problems in iOS devices that DO pay attention and “correct” the image per the instructions saved in that data.

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