Rotate Image

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ℹī¸ How it works:
  • Upload your image file
  • Press a quarter-turn button, or type any angle you like
  • Download the rotated picture

Turn a Picture Upside Down, Sideways, or Any Angle

Three buttons cover the everyday cases — a quarter turn each way, or 180° to flip a picture completely upside down. For anything else, type a number and the image turns by exactly that many degrees, which is what you want when a horizon is a couple of degrees off level.

Turning a Photo the Right Way Up

Most people arrive here with one of three problems:

  • The picture is upside down. Press 180° once. That is a single, exact half-turn — no dragging, nothing to line up.
  • The photo came out sideways. To fix a sideways photo, press ⟲ 90° or âŸŗ 90° until it looks right. One press is a quarter turn.
  • It is slightly crooked. To fix a tilted photo, type a small custom angle — 2, −3, 5 — and nudge it until the horizon sits level.

Why Photos Turn Up Sideways in the First Place

A photo that looks upright on your phone often appears rotated once you email it, upload it or open it on a computer. Your phone did not actually turn the picture — it stored it as the camera sensor saw it, plus a hidden orientation tag telling software which way up it goes. Some programs read that tag, others ignore it, which is why the same file looks correct in one place and sideways in another.

This tool reads that tag when your image loads, so the picture starts the right way up before you touch anything. When you download, the rotation is baked into the pixels themselves rather than left as a tag — so it stays correct everywhere you send it afterwards.

Rotating by an Exact Number of Degrees

The angle box accepts anything from −360 to 360. Positive numbers turn the picture clockwise, negative ones anticlockwise. Because turning a rectangle at an odd angle leaves triangular gaps in the corners, the canvas is expanded to fit the whole image and those corners are filled in. Tick Auto-crop empty corners and the result is trimmed back to the largest clean rectangle instead, which is usually what you want for straightening.

When You Might Need This

  • A page that fed into the scanner the wrong way round
  • Old family photos scanned in a batch, with some coming out sideways
  • A photographed document or whiteboard that needs squaring up before it is readable
  • Stills from a dashcam or action camera that was mounted upside down
  • A screenshot taken on a tablet that was being held rotated
  • Getting a photo the right way up before sending it to be printed

Key Features

  • One-press quarter and half turns – 90° each way, or 180° for upside down
  • Any angle from −360 to 360 – type the exact number of degrees
  • Lossless right angles – 90°, 180° and 270° move pixels without re-encoding them
  • Auto-crop – removes the empty corners left by a custom angle
  • Reset – put the picture back the way it arrived
  • Private – files are deleted automatically within one hour, and nothing is watermarked

Supported Formats and Limits

Upload JPG/JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP or TIFF, up to 7 MB. A transparent background stays transparent.

Frequently Asked Questions

Upload it and press the 180° button once. That turns the image a precise half-turn, so what was at the top ends up at the bottom. You can also type 180 into the angle box — the result is identical. Pressing 180° twice returns the picture to how it started.

Because the file carries a hidden orientation tag rather than being physically rotated. Your phone's gallery reads the tag and shows the photo upright; plenty of websites and desktop programs ignore it and show the raw sideways image. Rotating it here writes the correct orientation into the pixels themselves, which fixes it everywhere rather than just in apps that happen to read the tag.

Not for quarter and half turns. Rotating by 90°, 180° or 270° simply relocates existing pixels, so nothing is recalculated and nothing is lost. A custom angle is different: the pixels no longer line up with the grid, so they have to be recalculated, and a very slight softening is unavoidable. It is not noticeable at normal viewing size, but avoid rotating by odd angles repeatedly.

Type the number into the angle box rather than using the buttons. Anything from −360 to 360 works, in whole degrees — positive turns clockwise, negative anticlockwise. For straightening a slightly tilted photo you rarely need more than 1 to 5 degrees.

Tick Auto-crop empty corners before downloading. Any rotation that is not a multiple of 90° leaves triangular gaps where the picture no longer reaches the edge of the frame; auto-crop trims the image down to the largest rectangle that contains no gaps. You lose a little around the edges, which is the unavoidable trade-off for straightening.

Find a line in the picture that ought to be level — a horizon, a windowsill, the top of a door frame. Enter a small angle, check the preview against that line, and adjust by a degree at a time until it sits straight. Then tick auto-crop to remove the corners. Two or three degrees fixes most handheld shots.

Rotating turns the picture around, like spinning a photograph on a table — the content stays the same way round. Flipping mirrors it, so left and right swap and any text reads backwards. If you want a picture the right way up, rotate. If you want a mirror image, use Flip Image instead. Note that flipping vertically and rotating 180° are not the same thing, though they are easily confused.

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