[Buck_W]

I forwarded an email to my Dad that I had received that had an attached picture (.jpg). He received what I had forwarded, including the attached file, but the picture was upside down. This has happened several times before. His mail app is Outlook Express on a PC running XP.

Has anybody else ever experienced this? Have any ideas on what may be causing the attached .jpg to flip upside down?

[besson3c]

Is it possible that he himself was upside down when he read your email?

[seanc]

Wow, Outlook Express hasn't reallly been updated since 2001.
He should really switch to Thunderbird or Windows Live Mail.

He should be able to open the picture in Windows Picture and Fax viewer, then rotate it, but other than that, it's not something I've ever seen.

[besson3c]

When you send an email attachment it is encoded as plain text, so it is possible that when it is decoded it is reassembled incorrectly, or something. Weird, but there are many reasons to not use Outlook Express anyway, I'd definitely try to see if he can reproduce this with the same email message using a different email client such as Thunderbird.

[ort888]

This happens whenever I email a vertical pic from my iPhone to gmail. They look fine in the email preview, but if you click on the pic to view it larger it ends up sideways. It's annoying.

[reader50]

In some Apple software (Preview started it) if you rotate a pic and save it, the picture is not actually rotated. To make the save lossless, Apple only changes the orientation flag in the file. Viewing software that pays attention to this flag will rotate the pic at render time. All other software will show the pic as it appears in the file.

If you want pictures to appear with a consistent orientation, you might want to open and resave using a non-Apple app. PS or PSE for example. Graphic Converter probably as well. Or any number of image utilities.