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Rotate Image

Fix image orientation or rotate for design purposes.

.jpg, .jpeg, .png, .webp · up to 200 MB per file

  • JPG, JPEG, PNG, WEBP
  • up to 200 MB per file
  • Never uploaded

How it works

  1. 01

    Upload image

    Choose the image; it is never uploaded.

  2. 02

    Choose angle

    Pick 90°, 180° or 270° clockwise; the preview updates immediately.

  3. 03

    Download

    Get the rotated image in the same format.

Diagram: a sideways page is turned a quarter turn to read upright.90°

What Rotate Image does

Turn an image 90, 180 or 270 degrees. Photos taken on a phone held sideways often display upright in the gallery but appear rotated once uploaded elsewhere, because the viewer ignored the orientation flag stored in the file. Rotating rewrites the actual pixels, so the correction sticks wherever the image is opened.

Rotation runs in the browser: the image is decoded onto a canvas of the swapped dimensions, drawn turned, and saved back in the same format. That rebuild discards the metadata block — EXIF camera settings, capture date and any GPS coordinates — so the output carries only the pixels. It also means a phone photo's orientation tag is applied and then removed, which is precisely why the fix "sticks" in software that ignored the tag before.

Choose the angle from the photo's current state, not the camera's: if the picture shows the top on the left, 90° clockwise stands it up; top on the right needs 270°; upside down needs 180°.

Formats and limits

Accepts
.jpg, .jpeg, .png, .webp
Produces
Rotated image
Files per run
One
Size limit
200 MB per file

When you'd use it

  • A phone photo that appears sideways on a computer
  • A scanned page saved in landscape
  • Turning a product shot the right way up

Limitations

  • Rotation is in 90° steps. Straightening a tilted horizon needs an arbitrary-angle tool and a crop; this is not that.
  • EXIF orientation is applied before rotating, so what you see is what you get, but the EXIF tag itself is not rewritten in the output.

Questions

Why is my photo upright on my phone but sideways on the website?

Phones record orientation as EXIF metadata rather than physically rotating the image. Some software honours that flag, some ignores it. Rotating here bakes the correction into the pixels so every viewer shows it the same way.

Can I rotate by an arbitrary angle like 5 degrees?

No — rotation is limited to 90, 180 and 270 degrees. Quarter turns need no resampling, so nothing blurs; a JPG is re-encoded at quality 92 on save, a PNG is unchanged. Arbitrary angles require resampling and would leave blank wedges at the corners.

Does rotating shrink the image?

No. A 90 or 270 degree turn swaps width and height; a 180 degree turn keeps both. No pixels are discarded in any case.

What happens to your file

Your file is never uploaded or stored.

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