Problem Posting Images - Help!

@joe, yes orienting pictures can be a struggle at times. If you are using your cell phone to take the original picture, trying rotating the phone (e.g. hold it in landscape rather than portrait or vice versa). That has worked for folks in the past.

Thanks for both replies - as I use Windows 7 I am trying the suggested Faststone program - here is test 1 and it worked! Thanks datadragon for the suggestion!!

What it comes down to is how everyone hold their phone when shooting straight down. you need to keep the phone as level as possible in order to get the entire coin in good focus. a slight tilt and the nearest part coin will be in focus and the furthest end will end up blurry.
So when holding the phone level the internal sensor is in limbo and randomly picks an orientation. (It the thing that helps with auto-rotation)

any way I used my 2 android phones to get a series of images one phone will be entirely in the image and the other, of course is taking the photo of the first phone taking an image of a coin.

Confused yet?
Maybe the images will help and an explanation of each will help.

have a look at the area just to the right of the 'take picture button' - on my phone it looks like a broken square with a dot in the middle and most importantly in ONE CORNER (pay attention to the corner dot. (RED circle under the BLUE Arrow)

The slightest tilt will change where the corner dot ends up.
4 images below show both the full phone and the resulting image without turning the phone or the coin. (take note of the background of the un-cropped coin - you can tell that the image has rotated but the terry cloth pattern is consistent with the coin.)

With the resulting image.


With the resulting image.


With the resulting image.


With the resulting image.

I think that is a problem we all have. even if the screen brightness is maxed out.