I Pad - photos

Cardew

I am having problems with photos and videos taken on my I Pad and I wonder if anyone can offer advice please.

1. Photos taken on the IPod3 and sent direct from the IPad as an attachment to an email are HUGE when viewed by the recipient - you have to scroll across the picture to view it all.

If it is transferred to a PC(Win 7) it is normal size and can be attached to an email and sent from the PC.

2. Videos taken on the IPad appear upside down when transferred to the PC and I cannot find a way of correcting them. Photos can be rotated without difficulty - not videos.

Any ideas please?

[Deleted User]

If you need to rotate video (only whilst playing) on a PC, try using http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

Cardew

Thanks but cannot find a way to rotate video on videolan - is there an add-on required.

However it would be better if the video wasn't upside-down in the first place!

Lifeforms

You are holding the ipad the right way? I think you need to hold it on the side with the button on the right hand side to get video that transfers over in the right direction (assuming we're talking the back camera here, possibly also the front) The lens doesn't rotate with the ipad, as much as you change the orientation of the ipad, the camera still records in one way. Otherwise you get upside down, or side video. (same as camera recording and then viewing on computers)

File sizes will be big. You just take the picture, pre-editing/compressing (as taken!) and emailed over. You wouldn't notice the difference on a computer because of some or all of the following: a) bigger monitor b) compression/resizing automatically in whatever viewer you're using c) potentially the transfer adjusting size (dunno about this one)
Quite often it's huge because it's not viewed in something that auto sizes it, ie in webmail it shows original size, if they download, view in firefox or summit, it'll auto resize it.

Suggest you look at an photo editor app (dunno, don't use them, like "virgin" images ) and off hand there is a photoshop one free. to try and resize on the ipad, if possible, then send that. Or fix the way webmails/email clients work. (incidentally, the Bat!, which I use for gmail, auto resizes, then you can view original size)

googler

Yup, if your photos are upside down, turn the camera the other way up before taking the photo.