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RIP PhotoOnWeb 2008-2025

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The PhotoOnWeb service and server have been shut down. While the end of service was announced years ago, the final server shutdown by OVH ( removing the support for the hardware server online since 2011) is imminent. Users who relied on PhotoOnWeb as their sole photo backup must immediately use FTP to download their photos or contact us.

PhotoOnWeb closed 2025, a service to share photo albums on web

To replace PhotoOnWeb, we collaborated with Google Teams to enable photo album creation on photo.google.com using our PhotoLikr Photo Viewer software. PhotoLikr, a local Windows application by Obviousidea.com, allows you to review and sort your pictures, and now integrates with Google Photos for sharing photo albums. Google Photos offers extensive photo editing features, album privacy controls, and affordable, expandable storage.

PhotoOnWeb.com and app, were first developped at the time of the VSO-Software company. Then moved to Obviousidea portfolio after the split of the VSO founders. The app was designed to resize local photos, then choose from a list of templates ( birthday, holidays, halloween ) choosing a layout. it was first developped as an alternative to simpleviewer, but as Adobe Flash technology has been closed, the other alternative was a pure html web gallery.

Photolikr a more recent app from Obviousidea was already supporting the upload to dropbox, but dropbox photo albums are very business oriented. Google photos is something popular as anyone with a gmail account has already a free space to host pictures and photo albums. the management of your albums, such security and privacy , is managed from https://photos.google.com/

PhotoLikr has passed thru a validation process from the team of Google, and if you look quickly, there are not that many software to upload your photos to a web album.

Migrate from PhotoOnWeb to PhotoLikr today and ensure your photos are safe and accessible. Visit Obviousidea.com to download PhotoLikr and continue sharing your memories. More details on the new features and developpement of PhotoLikr app will come later. PhotoLikr is a minimalist photo (re)viewer, tuned for speed and support of recent modern formats such heic avif or jpeg xl.

Fix wrong Photo rotation problems in Windows Explorer

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Microsoft finally released a fix for a rotation issue. Indeed, you could have experienced with PhotoLikr and preview window of Light Image Resizer such problem, while the final output is correctly processed. The easiest way to check if you have the orientation problem is to check if a portrait photography has been wrongly rotated. CR2, CR3, RAF, or any raw digital camera format could be impacted.

landscape and portrait thumbnail in windows explorer problem
Canon CR3 Portrait not oriented

After the fix, you still need to run the disk cleanup tool. Use the last option of the files to remove : thumbnails. It will force the thumbnails in windows explorer to be cached again.

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You can find information about the fixes in the Microsoft’s Blog

KB5046740 changelog 14 november 2024

2 mentions are interesting :

[RAW format images] Fixed: They show in the wrong orientation.
[JPG files] Fixed: You cannot use an API to find rotation information. 

So maybe the problem wasn’t the update of the RAW Camera update but the operating system files themselves who causes wrong rotation in windows explorer.

Run Windows Update or refer to the documentation. If you are experiencing the problem, it’s important to contact us, as there are so many file format, the sooner we know about it, the sooner Obviousidea software could find a workaround. Please contact Obviousidea support team with screenshot and a description of the problem.

Orientation such portrait and lanscape are available in the exif information provided by digital camera manufacturor. The information could be read by the system such windows extension, or some core files like by the windows operating system directly. Obviousidea can use his own library or 3rd party library, embedded jpeg preview, ImageMagick library. The wrong thumbnail rotation problem in windows explorer is complex as there are so many different Windows builds. Latest main Windows build is 24H2.

PhotoLikr and photo orientation

With all the settings available in Photolikr (re)viewer , you could control the behavior of your photo display.

Settings in PhotoLikr to control the cache and fast preview
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Light Image Resizer and portrait rotation

With Light Image Resizer, you can convert all your photos without losing quality. Instead of using Exif orientation when viewing the picture, you can completely reconvert the pixel using the portrait option . Go to the tab Misc -> Adjust Resolution for portrait

Adjust resolution for portrait Screenshot in Light Image Resizer
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If you have any tips, any experience to share about wrong orientation of images in Windows Explorer, contact us !