Hi, I remember that I’ve seen this feature in the Google Group but I don’t think it’s been posted here. I’d like to have an option to apply basic image editing before or after uploading a picture. Most basic edits would be cropping or rotating a picture.

I think that would be a good idea. I tend to crop my pictures or add in arrows/circles to highlight the intended organism for the observation, so doing that directly on iNat may actually speed up the process when it comes to uploading larger observation batches.

it’s already possible to rotate images on the website, cropping would be nice (though also maintaining the original would be even better)

I like the idea of keeping the original. But place the cropped image in front of the original in the ordering. So users don’t have to figure out how to change the order of photos (which is currently not very user friendly) to get the “closeup” crop as the main image. If a cropping feature is adde…

To my knowledge the rotation on the website has never worked. I’ve checked photos several months down the line after rotating and no change has been made, even after clearing cache.

oh, my bad. yeah they should fix it

[image] iPhil: I’d like to have an option to apply basic image editing before or after uploading a picture. Most basic edits would be cropping or rotating a picture. Adding a crop feature to the mobile cameras, at least, is on the table. I think once we get the new Seek version ready we can …

Alright. I’ll do that. I was just speaking to @jon_sullivan recently about the same issue.

We did have a bug that affected profile pics and project banners, which was recently fixed. I believe image rotation might have also been affected by it.

Just as a test, this is one of my uploads that has a photo rotated incorrectly (the photo should be landscape-oriented, not portrait): https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/32504023 I hit “rotate left” yesterday and I’m still not seeing any change.

Incorporate basic image editing tools (crop, rotate)

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tiwane March 23, 2019, 12:07am 7

I was just able to rotate this photo: https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/33261513 Would you mind trying again and if it’s not working, file a bug report?

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