Need App that will display photos to fill the screen as when I shot them

[t_wysocki]

I have gone through a bunch of photo gallery apps on my S10 looking for one that displays my images in the same orientation as I saw when I took the photo. I do a lot of architectural inspection shots where my phone is not necessarily positioned in either portrait or landscape position. I don't want to see the image rotated in a manner that causes black bars on any of the sides. I want it to fill my screen as it did when I took the shot.

Is there any photo gallery app that will do that?

 

[B. Diddy]

Were these photos taken in 16:9 or 4:3? (Keep in mind that 16:9 is actually fewer megapixels than 4:3, even though it fills the screen when you're taking the shot.)

 

[t_wysocki]

Shot in 16:9 and if fills the aspect of my phone perfectly. I just want to see it in the same aspect when I view it later.

 

[B. Diddy]

When you select the photo, does anything happen if you use a pinch gesture to zoom in?

 

[t_wysocki]

Yeah, it can be stretched, but it still is in the same aspect. I want to see the entire image that I shot, regardless of how I'm holding the phone when I view it. If I shoot a tall building in portrait mode, I want to see that building fill the screen later even if I'm holding the phone horizontally. I would think this would be a no brainer. I would believe someone had to write code to cause the image to be rotated based upon how I'm holding the phone. I tried an app called "rotation" that lets me turn auto-rotation off, but then all images I shot in portrait look great and all that I shot landscape have black bars on top/bottom!

 

[B. Diddy]

Sorry, I'm trying to understand what you'd like to see. So if you have a portrait orientation shot, but then view it with the phone in landscape orientation, you want the photo to fill the screen? I'm not sure how that would happen if the photo still keeps the same portrait orientation. If it kept portrait orientation but filled the screen, then you'd necessarily be zooming in on a horizontal section of the photo, and then have to pan up or down.

If the problem is that some photos get saved in the wrong orientation, then the solution would be to edit the photo afterwards and rotate the photo 90 degrees.

If that isn't what you're asking about, then maybe you could show us some images or screenshots of what you'd like to see?

 

[t_wysocki]

Ok, here's two examples with screenshots: I took a photo of my wife in landscape mode and it looks great when holding the phone horizontally:


But if I hold the phone vertically, it rotates and looks like this with black on top and bottom!!;


Here's one that I shot in portrait mode (and it looks great when I now hold my phone vertically:


But if I hold my phone horizontally, the image rotates and I get black bars on the sides!!!


I want to NOT have the image rotated after capture and to have it displayed full screen with no black bars (like image #1 and #3).

 

[belodion]

If I understand you correctly, that is not possible, nor do I see how it could be. Your examples are exactly how I see pictures on every phone I've ever used. But I may have misunderstood you.

 

[t_wysocki]

Example: I'll queue up an image to show to a friend, but when they grab the phone they rotate it a bit and end up seeing the image on a tiny part of my millions of pixels of display.

You understand me correctly, but I can't believe it's not possible. All you have to do is ask: What is the largest dimension of this image, and rotate it as needed to put that on the long side of the display device. I've used software in the 1980's that did that much.

Hey, you gallery app authors, I hope you're listening!

 

[B. Diddy]

I see what you're saying. I'm guessing gallery apps are coded to always show a photo in whatever orientation it was saved in (or whatever orientation the user may have edited it to), so that it will show "right side up" no matter how you hold the phone. This necessitates having the black bars on the top/bottom or sides, depending on the orientation. The only solution I can think of would be to turn off auto-rotate, but this wouldn't guarantee that the photos in question display in the orientation you want -- it'll just lock the display orientation.

Let me do some digging to see if there are gallery apps that will display photos to maximize use of the screen, regardless of the orientation of the photo.

 

[B. Diddy]

Simple Gallery has an option to set the orientation dependent on the aspect ratio of the photo -- however, the entire display rotates, so the direction you swipe to see the next photo will also rotate. Kind of close to what you want, but probably no cigar.

 

[t_wysocki]

Yeah, that sounds pretty close, I'll check it out. Basically I just want to go back to the old school paradigm of film cameras and paper prints! You'd hand a stack to your friend and they'd turn them as needed to see the image, but the image occupied the full page! Would be nice if you could scroll in a consistent direction.

 

[B. Diddy]

I know where you're coming from -- when I'm reviewing photos and showing friends or family, the slight delay it takes to auto-rotate can quickly get tedious after doing it several times.

 

[t_wysocki]

Got the app, even paid for pro, and I think it's going to work out fine for me. Even though it's named "Simple..." it has a ton of features. And the "rotate based upon aspect ratio" feature is exactly what I was looking for. As you say, there are some minor issues, like the swipe direction (and the position of the editing controls in the same way). I've also found that in the aspect ratio mode videos shot in portrait don't rotate to fill the screen. I sent some feedback to the author, we'll see what happens. Thanks for the help finding this!

 

[B. Diddy]

Great, glad I could help! And I commend you for paying for the Pro version -- it's important to support these devs!

 

[Mooncatt]

I may be a bit late to the party, but orientation info is saved in the exif data when the photo is taken. That is what most galleries are reading to know which way to display the photo. So if you are still getting frustrated by this, you may want to consider trying other camera apps to see if one has an option to not store that data. Unfortunately I don't know if such an app exists, as I've never been concerned with this myself.