Rotate/Flip Image
Rotate and flip your images with precision. Perfect for correcting orientation, creating mirror effects, or adjusting composition.
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Rotation, flipping, and the orientation flag
Rotating an image by 90, 180, or 270 degrees is a lossless rearrangement — every pixel moves to a new position and none is recalculated. Flipping is the same: a horizontal flip mirrors the pixel grid left to right, a vertical flip top to bottom. Arbitrary angles are different, because they require resampling and therefore soften the image slightly.
Then there is the EXIF orientation flag, which explains most of the confusion around sideways photos. Phones often store the image in the sensor's native orientation and add a tag telling viewers how to rotate it for display. Software that honours the tag shows the photo correctly; software that ignores it shows it on its side. Physically rotating the pixels and clearing the flag produces a file that looks right everywhere, which is why the problem usually appears only after an upload.
Why we built this tool
The everyday triggers are familiar: a photo that appears upright on your phone but sideways after uploading, a scanned document fed in the wrong way, or a selfie that reads backwards because the front camera mirrored it.
Fixing an orientation flag is not work that justifies uploading a personal photograph anywhere. Ours redraws the image on a canvas in your browser, writing out a file whose pixels are physically in the right orientation. Your photo never leaves your device, there is no batch limit, and no watermark is added — and because the canvas re-encode drops EXIF, the misleading orientation tag goes with it.
Tips and common mistakes
- Ninety-degree rotations and flips are lossless; arbitrary angles resample and soften the image slightly.
- If a photo looks right on your phone but wrong after uploading, the EXIF orientation flag is the cause.
- Front-camera selfies are mirrored — flip horizontally if text in the frame reads backwards.
- Physically rotating the pixels fixes the problem everywhere, unlike relying on the orientation tag.
Quick start: using Rotate/Flip Image
- Load the image that is the wrong way round.
- Rotate in 90-degree steps until it is upright.
- Flip horizontally if the picture is mirrored, as front-camera selfies often are.
- Check the preview to confirm the result.
- Download the corrected file and use that version everywhere.
Cropping after rotation? Crop Image keeps the framing tidy. For documents, Rotate PDF handles page orientation.