our member is at it again

[jsburger]

Not really! Merely following directions posted above.

Methinks the 'secret' is to use Irfanview.

I don't think so. The secret is to save it after rotating it. I use MS Office 2010 picture manager to crop, rotate and resize pictures to upload since it is less cluttered with options than IRFanview.

[JPG]

If one does not 'save' it, how does one 'attach' it.

[jsburger]

If one does not 'save' it, how does one 'attach' it.

By attaching the original which is why it does not show up rotated.

[JPG]

OK, but how does one attach the original?

From the forum software I understand browsing for an existing file. If it does not exist as a file, how you do that?

[jsburger]

OK, but how does one attach the original?

From the forum software I understand browsing for an existing file. If it does not exist as a file, how you do that?

The original file still exists no matter what you do in an editor until you save it.

OK, you load the original into a picture editor and edit/rotate it on the screen. If you don't save it (back to the original place) and go back to the original picture location and attach it (after you have rotated it on the screen thinking that will fix the problem) the rotation has not been updated in the meta data of the picture. So when you post, it is still wrong.

[JPG]

OK I was thinking re a clipboard copy being edited. It is not a file until saved(created).

To eliminate confusion, NEVER save a file onto itself.

[jsburger]

OK I was thinking re a clipboard copy being edited. It is not a file until saved(created).

To eliminate confusion, NEVER save a file onto itself.

The majority of the time I agree with that. Anything I want to keep and also post I copy the picture to it's permanent location on my network drive and then edit the original and save it back to itself and post it. Then I can delete it and still have the other unedited copy.