15 March 2017, 12:59

Then we could actually still only have one button when we put the rotation in the "Edit" screen and use the regular "Save" button. Having a "Save" button amongst the edit and delete buttons wouldn't be so good I think because you'd wonder what you are saving.

22 June 2017, 16:36

Hello,

If you want to look at the progress made so far on rotating images, please take a look at the functionality in review: https://reviews.mahara.org/#/c/7587

Cheers

Kristina

03 March 2018, 21:46

Any news on this? We have v17.4 and I have another student with this image rotation question. 

Teresa

06 March 2018, 13:17

Hello Teresa,

It is still in review. As you can see from the comments on https://reviews.mahara.org/#/c/7587/ there is still a bit of work to do. We are hoping to get this into 18.10. Since it is a new feature that is not funded, it was pushed back in favor of other features and changes that we needed to focus on for the 18.04 release, in particular around the GDPR.

Cheers

Kristina

06 March 2018, 21:36

Thanks for raising Teresa and for the reply Kristina. This has consistently appeared in student feedback as an issue for us too so it would be great if it was resolved in 18.10.

Cheers,

Lisa

06 March 2018, 23:07

thanks both! meanwhile is there a workaround? How can students best prepare their images prior to upload to ensure that they display correctly?

07 March 2018, 8:00

Hello Teresa,

That may require a bit of trial and error as it depends on what software they have on the computer and what operating system they are running. Typically, images are rotated automatically in a bunch of image processing software so I don't have a hard and fast rule for what to do I'm afraid.

Cheers

Kristina

07 March 2018, 9:20

I discourage students from uploading any image that came directly from a phone or mobile device. A privacy risk and terrible waste of bandwidth and storage space, even with the size reducing option in Mahara. I setup an image editing site to compliment my Mahara site to give students a place to gain some visual literacy experience and optimize their images. The act of editing and re-saving them should fix the rotation issue. I set up the site to be an open education resource and encourage any educator to use it:

https://imagez.ca

The image editor loads in the browser with no plug-ins or ads. The image never leaves the students computer to guarantee privacy. The least they need to do is rotate, resize the image and save it again. This also strips out all the EXIF data that might be considered private like geo location.

10 March 2018, 21:18

Hi Teresa and Lisa,

We did add the image rotation to Mahara 18.04RC1. Thus, it will be in Mahara 18.04. Please test it there. :-) You can do so on https://master.dev.mahara.org or on your own test instance.

Instructions on where to find it will be in the user manual tomorrow. But it's easy to find: Go to the file browser, upload an image and then go into the "Edit" screen. There is a new "Orientation" option with a button to rotate your image.

Cheers

Kristina