Photos, Apple vs Windows

Carol and Eric, we have been following your amazing knowledge for what to do in St. Maarten for many years. We now stay at Beach Side Villas, the most amazing place in St. Maarten and have been to many restaurants you have recommended and have had the best meals. You guys really know what you are talking about. I have to let you know that we are apple users and can not put our pictures on your sight. I had thought I had heard “Beach kitten” was helping. Maybe I misunderstood what you guys were doing, I know you have a good amount of people who go to this sight who have I phones and (iPads) would love to show everyone there pictures. If you would like help in creating this, please reach out to us and we will be clad to help. We our going to Beach Side Villas in early June. We know you guys go in mind June and we would love to show you pictures.
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You misunderstand. You can upload with iphones, etc. Depending on how you take the photo with your phone then sometimes in appears sideways after uploading. It seems that with some phones, if you take the photo with the phone held in portrait, then it flips it sideways, but if you take the photo with the phone held in landscape it shows fine.

It is because of extra coding that the phone embeds into the photo. The photo gallery will allow the view to flip the photo. There is a way to remove the coding before uploading but that is an extra step. There are some apps for the phone that will do it also, think they are free.

We were able to remove the coding during testing.

If you upload your iPhone photos to a computer running Windows 10, you can strip the info without an extra application

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-remove-personal-information-from-photos-in-windows-10/

Thanks Eric and beachkitten, but for the life of me, I can not figure this out as much as I want too! I know that y’all have spent many trieless hours on this, but it has me stumped! (We have gone to the testing site, and also read all the treads related to posting pics) Now with that being said, we have been long time apple folks. We went away from the windows platform many, many years ago due to the fact of the simplicity of Apple. I have gone into this site numerous times and have determined it is STILL based on a Microsoft program. Now not complaining, REALLY, we LOVE the new site! But with Apple software that has been available for MANY years for FREE, like grab and drop, move and side, which has been OLD SCHOOL for some time now. I guess with the new up grade we thought these tools would be available at this point. Apple does not have a RIGHT click on an iPad. We use our iPad to control all headless computers (Mac mini’s) in the house and office, for years, seamlessly! Also as beachkitten has mentioned before, Apple embeds the info in the picture, unlike Microsoft, which applies a JPG to every picture. Back to my statement, Apple has simplicity built into the programming. SO PLEASE! ERIC OR BEACHKITTEN! PLEASE HELP!! Now I know we’re (me and my wife) are not in the same boat by our selfs.
And to everyone else, PLEASE don’t beat us up for the run on sentences. Just my bad grammar coming out in my frustration trying to figure this out!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I feel your pain dude! And yes, the Apple world is easier and more intuitive, but doesn't play nice with older technology.

And it has been HOURS of effort by everyone involved.

That said, there are workarounds that we Applie/iPhone/Mac users must use to be able to share our pictures on the site.

On your iPhone you will want to download and install ViewExif.
https://www.imore.com/how-remove-exif-data-your-photos-iphone

On your Mac's, you will want to download and install ImageOption
https://www.imore.com/how-remove-exif-data-your-photos-iphone

The drag and drop a photo from the upload menu is part of the software, so you should be able to do that. Maybe I am not understanding what you mean?

Here are 4 easy ways to do the right click from you Mac product:

How to Right Click on a Mac

I think you misunderstand what we are talking about with regard to the iPhone and some other phones. It is about the extra coding that the phone puts into the photo (they are still jpeg), that extra coding is really for the phone to display the photo on the phone regardless of what way you have it turned (even upside down). Great for the phone, but not so great when it uploads the photo, depending on the way you held the phone when taking the photo -- then at times if flips the photo sideways when it is uploaded.

I could be totally mistaken here, but I don't believe you can do that with an iPad?

That is suppose to work. Do a quick google search for right click on ipad, all kinds of support even from apple.

Looked at the instructions briefly -- on the ipad you evidently have to press/hold the button for like 5 seconds to bring up the "right click" type of menu.

Here is how you do it on an iPad. Tap is left click. Hold is right click.

https://support-splashtoppersonal.s...ntroduction-to-iOS-gestures-iPad-iPhone-

Ah, yes, that helped. Thanks so much!

BTW, this is not an apple vs windows thing at all. The code is generic for all operating systems. Each has their own "things" good and bad. Makes no difference to the software at all. It does not know if you are on windows or mac one way or the other.

Yes, many of our hints are for windows..... just because that is the way it is... neither good or bad. The software does not know the difference one way or the other. The software is written in PHP, a generic web software.... It is hosted with linux and apache, again generic, and does not care what system you are using.... There is no difference on our end what ever you use. The difference is your browser and operating system, that is all.

We tested with both apple and microsoft products, and all worked as expected with the exception of the iphone. So there should not be any issues whatsoever between mac or windows systems, just the way to do it between the two.. Not making excuses, just say what it is, is all.

So, regardless of the operating system, if you have problems.................. we are here to help!

Have a question.. ask, I think between all of the members here we can come up with a fix one way or the other!

We/all of us here to help each other, there is no question about that.. ask the question and we will try to come up with the answer.

Sorry Eric, I didn’t mean this subject to come across like that, and for that I apologize. I know y’all have spent a lot of time on this new site. So, I guess my question is this. When I go to the site for photo testing, I use attachment manager, I see the photos loaded up at the bottom, I hit done next, then preview and at this point I don’t see my photos. Now keep in mind all this being done on an iPad using safari. Maybe that’s my problem? So if you could help, that would be very much appreciated sir! Maybe I should be using Firefox as my web browser, just a thought. Once again, I dint mean for it to sound like us against them, just really looking for some help on photos.
Thanks again

I was able to post photos to the Photo Gallery Testing, start to finish, with an iPad mini using safari. I just tried to replicate the problem mentioned above. The only time they wouldn’t upload after seeing them “preloaded” in the attachment manager window was when no text was entered into the “Title” and “Description” fields.

The pictures would go into the Photo Gallery Testing area no matter the pixel dimensions. However, I had to resize them before they could be inserted into a regular forum reply. I reduced the size with an app before uploading to the Photo Gallery. I used 1200 pixels for the height if the picture was in portrait and 1200 for width if the photo was in landscape mode.

I hope this helps.

Thanks OllieEh, with your information I was able to upload a photo! Thank you very much, greatly appreciated! The strange thing is, I’ve tried that same process before with no results. And Eric if you are reading this, mission accomplished! Once again thanks for all the help!

Saw that you got it working.

Thanks Everyone for helping, I just have a few more questions, but for another day!!,