Pearltrees Extension. KeyJ's Blog : Blog Archive » The most evil feature ever conceived: the Exif Orientation Tag. There are some advances in technology that are actually steps backwards: features that look nice on paper, but always get in the way when implemented in reality.
One of my pet peeves in this category is the Exif Orientation Tag, a little flag present in JPEG files generated by digital cameras that causes all kinds of havoc. It’s one of the places where the old proverb »the road to hell is paved with good intentions« holds true, because the idea behind this flag is a good one, whereas the flag itself is a product of pure evil. But let’s start the story at the beginning … The world before the Orientation Tag The first digital cameras simply captured images in their default (i.e. landscape) orientation, period. When done the naive way (using standard image editing software), this means that the JPEG file is decompressed, rotated and compressed again, which is a lossy process.
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</span><span pearltreesdevid="PTD124">cultofmac</span><span pearltreesdevid="PTD126">. Lightroom for the iPad is here. It’s called Lightroom Mobile, and it runs smoothly on anything down to an iPad 2 (or first-gen mini). You can use the app to edit and organize any photos in your Lightroom collections, and it syncs automatically (and near instantly) with Lightroom on your desktop (you’ll need to upgrade to v5.4).
And the price? So how does it work? How It works LR Mobile works with Smart Previews, the compressed DNG (RAW) files that were added in Lightroom 5. Photos are synced using Collections, the basic organizational unit of Lightroom. Collections This is because LR Mobile is pretty much an online app. Viewing. Help! All my photos are upside down or sideways when I upload them to my shop!! - Discussions - Questions - Etsy Teams. EXIF orientation handling is a ghetto. One of my favourite services at the moment is Transloadit, who provide an image processing API that works a treat on top of platforms like Heroku, where there are strict request timeout limits that make large uploads difficult.
They handle auto-orientation of images automagically by default, and normally I’m not even aware of it happening during testing since my camera and OSX also handle auto-orientation transparently. Recently one particular image stuck out on the staging server as un-rotated, while it worked fine locally using ImageMagick/Dragonfly. Not only that, but the width and height seemed to be wrong, warping the image (the app I’m working on uses a tiled layout, and requires the width and height of each image to be explicitly set in CSS).
Eh? EXIF Orientation? The EXIF (exchangeable image file format) standard specifies a set of tags that can be embedded in images (among other things). This diagram from 80sidea explains the 8 orientations pretty succinctly: Sounds simple enough… Canva Design School — Tutorials. The Noun Project: From Sketchbook To Startup. The best ideas, like the best song lyrics, feel familiar from the moment we encounter them.
(We say, “I should have thought of that!”) The Noun Project, a growing library of free, downloadable icons symbolizing objects and concepts, feels like one of those ideas. So simple it seems obvious, and so useful you can’t believe it didn’t exist before. Founded by the husband-and-wife team of Edward Boatman and Sofya Polyakov, along with designer Scott Thomas, The Noun Project launched in 2010 with a catalog of a few hundred icons and has since grown by leaps and bounds.
New symbols are submitted daily by designers around the world, and the Noun Project team recently crowdsourced the translation of its library into 25 languages.We spoke with Edward and Sofya by phone about the childhood fixation that sparked the idea for their visual archive, the struggles of launching a start-up without any experience, and the unexpected rewards of seeing your project take on a life of its own.