If you use an app to upload your photo to Flickr, use the same app to adjust orientation (rather than trying to do so on the Flickr website). Or click the second icon on the lower right when viewing the photo to reveal editing options.
Recently I uploaded a set of photos to my account on the Flickr photo sharing, storage and showcasing website.
For a reason that I do not understand, one of the ten photos was no longer in the correct orientation. I spent quite some time looking at the options and links on the photo’s main Flickr page, as well as the navigating to the interface for managing albums (that Flick
r calls ‘Organizr’).
Use the app
I uploaded the photo using Photos (known as iPhoto until April 2015) from a MacBook,
and it was correctly orientated in the album on my computer, but appeared incorrectly in the online album.
I tried rotating it 90 degrees on my computer in Photos (so that it was now incorrectly orientated on my laptop). And this worked – the image was rotated 90 degrees in Flickr too, and it now appeared correctly orientated.
Use Flickr’s online editing options
Click through to the page for the image. Above the title and description fields (on the left), towards the lower right side, above the date and copyright information, click the second icon. A pop up list of options appears including ‘Rotate’.
It is also via this icon that you can access the Aviary editing tools for more advanced manipulation and editing of your images.
In addition to apps for mobile phones and tablets and integration with Apple’s Photos Mac app, there are also uploading tools provided by Flickr to use with your PC desktop or laptop:
Flickr for iPhone on the AppStore
Flickr for Android on Google play
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