So I am creating a responsive website that has the option of uploading images to the page. The php script basically resizes the the image and stores a thumb file path in the
1) Not sure if there's anything you can do about that, you upload the image the user selected. In an application I would possibly downsize the image before transmission.
2) Whatever you are looking at to view the photo (or generate thumbnails) is probably not respecting the orientation flag in the photo.