I have had this problem before as well and use a mac.  I deleted the picture from active rain, went back into the picture on the mac, rotated it a few times, saved it, then went back into active rain and uploaded it again.  It was fine after that.  It is annoying when that happens but that was a quick fix for me.  

Roy Kelley nailed this one!

Take your photographs in the landscape mode. I then use iPiccy.com to edit the photographs.

I have encountered this issue on occasion as well - I like the solution offered by Roy Kelley.    Good luck.  

This visits with me too from time to time...lets find out Kathryn

I thought people only had this problem on Apple devices. Others gave good advice how to fix but we don't know really why.

You have some great advice already that I would have recommended. Good luck!

save it and rotate it ...then post it.... that happens to me all the time...

I agree with Roy's technique.

Kathryn Acciari Roy Kelley has this one.

Watching the answers for a great question.

Always nice to see how much help is available in the Rain! Roy Kelley is one of the leaders!

Same here. I have software auto rotate. I also reduce the resoulution to make download speed optimized.

That happens when using an iPhone or iPad camera. I can correct this by rotating the image one turn then uploading 

Looks like you have the answer already - good luck

As I've personally never encountered this problem, I'm reading responses with interest... and it appears you have some excellent suggestions here.

When I have encountered this, I found to be be an issue with the 'viewer' in use was rotating the image. The original image was 90 degrees off.. To resolve, I used the pict editor found in the WIN OS. Using only the rotate feature.

Done correctly, your observable will be the original 'viewer' will show the image incorrectly.

Be aware, there could be some elf'n magic taking place in AR. If that is the case, all bets are OFF.

Always take your photos in landscape mode. They work better on most devices and look better on blog posts, and websites, etc.  If you take your portrait images and upload them to youtube creative to turn them into a video you are going to get those black sections on both sides of the image in the video. That won't happen with landscape in most cases. Before you take a photo, think about all the content creation you will be doing with one photo. It has a long life with loads of tactics.. again, landscape mode will work the best across all those platforms. 

I used to have some issues with this too, until I edited the photo.   You can use Ribbet too.

Kathryn Acciari - If that happens to me, I use an external editor and save 'straight' image as some other name and upload.

Yes, this is frustrating at times, and I really understand that.

I want to try Roy Kelley's suggestion.

Perhaps you can edit the rotation flag so it won't rotate.

I have not encountered that issue.  I would use ipiccy to change the orientation.  Good luck with it. 

Open it in an editing program like Paint, do a saveas, then load it into AR and it should work

Need to edit the photos first, I believe

Good luck.

Have not run into that.

I have had similar experience as Brenda J Andrw since I have a MAC!

When I had that happen, it straightened itself out when I inserted the photo.

I haven't had this problem. You have some great suggestions to help you out. Good luck. 

I have to agree with Roy Kelley !

I do not but I bet someone does.  Never had the issue

Roy Kelley is the Pro at this.