Commons talk:Flopped

@Incnis Mrsi: Thanks for creating this essay. I've added some explanatory text to Category:Flopped images and Category:Flopped images of persons, as (at least on English Wikipedia), using flopped images of people, artwork, or other subjects is generally discouraged when it could be misleading (e.g. a person with a distinct mole on the left cheek should not be pictured with a mole on the right cheek). Some users have apparently assumed the exact opposite, that images should be flopped merely to face the text or for other aesthetic reasons (e.g. File:William Hague 2010 cropped flipped.jpg), an apparent incomplete reading of en:Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Images: It is often preferable to place images of people so that they "look" toward the text. Do not achieve this by reversing the image. Would you mind adding some similar text to this essay, or would you mind if I add it? --Animalparty (talk) 01:31, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Of course, a controversy around flopped people (see e.g. File:PregnantWoman.jpg #filehistory) should be mentioned. But the focus is explaining that orientation is an objective attribute of any photographic (in broad sense) image. I mean: a right-cheek mole image achieved with jpegtran -flip horizontal is flopped, but an identically oriented image taken with a physical mirror is not flopped. Our task (of Commons) is to classify images correctly, not to promote one visual convention or another. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 09:36, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Hgrobe's files to be inverted

I write down the following files here, because at this moment they are horizontally inverted (compared to real life). They are identified because of the obviously inverted writings.

They all belong to User:Hgrobe's albums from 1970s and 1980s. I skimmed through his uploads and tried to identify by the inverted writings, mostly in Chinese and Latin scripts and numerals, but I cannot read other Southeast and South Asian scripts. Human error cannot be ruled out. If you have questions on why a photo is listed, feel free to ask me, or any other native users. Because inversion is so prevalent, I suspect most of his photos from the period are inverted, but exceptions do exist, e.g. File:China1982-527.jpg and File:Ladakh1981-315.jpg. Only people who are most familiar with the sceneries should invert photos based on evidence not related to writings.

Permission to invert was previously granted. I do not do the inversion myself because a certified lossless, or least lossy, process is needed. I am a novice in computer image processing and cannot determine which program or website is qualified.--Roy17 (talk) 00:12, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

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--Roy17 (talk) 00:12, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

The obstacle is that the JPEG pictures have a random pixel width mostly not divisible by 8 (let alone by 16). Can we find TIFFs anywhere? Incnis Mrsi (talk) 07:24, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

All these photos are flopped now. --Sebastian Wallroth (talk) 10:58, 7 November 2021 (UTC)