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Sometimes, Ruth, a photo is taken in the landscape position to get everything in. If it is rotated to the portrait position using the cameras menu, before being downloaded into your pc or computer it will be presented that way, but I have found if I rotate after downloading they seem to remain as the picture was taken,(although it is viewed in picture gallery as rotated) this happened with one of my paintings in the gallery.
This could be the cause, I always rotate my pictures with my camera settings before download, now. This may be the cause. I hope it has helped.
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This is a product of digital photography in that each photo is a computer file which contains metadata - information stored in the file along with the image. This data includes things like date and time taken, shutter speed, whether a flash fired or not - even exactly where the photo was taken if the camera is equipped with gps satellite positioning.
The problem is PO website not including a facility to rotate an uploaded image before posting. Effectively overriding the data. Maybe they have, I haven't tried. There might be a help page.
The apple iPad tablet is sold with a photo gallery app already. This app has an edit function and this has a rotate button on the left of the displayed image. Your friend could try this, see if it works.
Failing this, she could take a fresh image of her photo by displaying it right way up on the tablet and pressing the home button (round one at the bottom of the tablet) and on/off button (at the top edge) at the same time. The screen will blink to tell you it's taken a shot, the new image goes directly to the photo gallery app. Good luck.
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The answer must lie in the camera settings or the photo-editing software. I don't know anything about Ipads or any other Apple product for that matter, but if you save the file in portrait format, that's how it will show here. By the time you get to POL, in other words, the damage has been done and there's nothing this site can do to correct it.
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Thank you so much for all your comments to my query. I remain baffled, but will encourage my friend (who is 85 this May) to keep on trying to verticalise her work! She has had such a productive life in painting and ceramics and would love to be able to show some of it. It ain't easy for us Octegenarians but we keep trying....