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Rotate or flip your images.
How to Rotate or Flip an Image
Select an image
Click the upload area or drop a JPG, PNG or WebP file.
Rotate or mirror it
Turn the image 90° left or right, or flip it horizontally / vertically — with a live preview.
Download the result
Save the corrected image at full original quality.
Why photos come out sideways in the first place
Cameras and phones do not rotate the pixels when you turn the device. They store the image in the sensor's native orientation and record an EXIF orientation flag saying how it should be displayed. Software that honours the flag shows the photo upright; software that ignores it shows it sideways.
This is why the same photograph appears correct in your gallery and rotated in an upload form, an email client or a printing service. Rotating the pixels themselves, rather than relying on a flag, is what makes the correction travel with the file everywhere.
Rotating a JPEG costs quality unless done carefully
A rotation performed by decoding the image and re-encoding it is a second generation of lossy compression. The loss from one rotation is small, but it is real and it accumulates if you rotate the same file repeatedly.
Lossless JPEG rotation exists as a specialised operation that rearranges the compressed blocks without decoding, but it only works for multiples of 90 degrees and requires dimensions that align to the block grid. For a single correction the ordinary approach is perfectly acceptable; for an archive you will process repeatedly, work from an original and rotate once.
Flipping is not rotating
A flip mirrors the image; a rotation turns it. They are different operations and produce different results, which sounds obvious until you are looking at a photograph of a symmetrical object and cannot tell which one you applied.
The test is text. Any writing in the image reads normally after rotation and reads backwards after a flip. Mirrored photographs of shopfronts, book covers and clothing with logos are a common and easily avoided error.
When mirroring is the right choice
Selfie cameras show a mirrored preview because that is what people expect from a mirror, and some save the mirrored version. Flipping corrects it — and if there is text in the frame, that correction is not optional.
For design work, flipping is a legitimate compositional tool: making a subject face into a layout rather than out of it. Just be aware it produces an image of something that never looked that way, which matters for documentation, evidence and product photography.
Batches and metadata
Scanned documents frequently need the same rotation applied to many pages, and photographs from a session often share an orientation problem. Applying one correction across a batch is the common case and much faster than page-by-page work.
Re-encoding may drop EXIF metadata, including capture date and camera settings, so a corrected archive can lose the dates your photo library sorts by. Everything runs in your browser and nothing is uploaded.