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Posted 05/14/2026 12:02 pm
There is a chance the smaller file size—which causes the forum to skip the automatic optimization process—does help.
The automatic optimization process was fixed to read the meta data, so if it is there it should use it and therefore I do not think you need to reduce the size. You just need to make sure your editor saves the orientation data in the image file. Camera apps apparently do not.
But if whatever app you are using to edit the photo is going to reduce the size anyway, so be it.
For what it is worth, every single photo I imported from my old point-and-shoot camera to Google Photos shows as landscape, even though a good number of them were taken portrait. The raw image file from the Kodak has no meta data. Just a raw and huge JPEG file. I had to re-orient them in Google photos.
The automatic optimization process was fixed to read the meta data, so if it is there it should use it and therefore I do not think you need to reduce the size. You just need to make sure your editor saves the orientation data in the image file. Camera apps apparently do not.
But if whatever app you are using to edit the photo is going to reduce the size anyway, so be it.
For what it is worth, every single photo I imported from my old point-and-shoot camera to Google Photos shows as landscape, even though a good number of them were taken portrait. The raw image file from the Kodak has no meta data. Just a raw and huge JPEG file. I had to re-orient them in Google photos.
