Rotate & Flip
Rotate and flip an image online, free
Turn a sideways phone photo upright, stand a portrait back up, or mirror a selfie that came out reversed. Drop an image, rotate it in 90 degree steps or flip it, and download. It all runs in your browser, so nothing is uploaded.
Drop an image here, or click to choose
JPG, PNG or WebP. Everything happens in your browser.
- Files never leave your device
- Runs in your browser
- Free, no signup
How it works
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Drop your image
Add a JPG, PNG, or WebP. It is drawn onto a canvas in your browser, never uploaded, so private photos stay on your device.
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Rotate or flip
Rotate left or right in 90 degree steps, flip horizontally to mirror left and right, or flip vertically. The actions combine and update the preview live.
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Download
Download the result with the orientation baked into the pixels, in the original format. JPG stays JPG, PNG keeps transparency, WebP stays WebP.
Fix orientation without uploading anything
Rotate and mirror together
Rotate in 90 degree steps and flip horizontally or vertically in the same pass. Every change shows in the live preview before you download.
Lossless quarter turns
A 90, 180, or 270 degree rotation only rearranges existing pixels, so there is no visible quality loss, just one high-quality re-save.
Private by design
The image is rotated on a canvas in your browser tab. Nothing is uploaded, which matters for scans, screenshots, and document photos.
Where this helps
Sideways phone photos
A photo that looks upright in your gallery but sideways once uploaded has its orientation in metadata some apps ignore. Rotating bakes it into the pixels so every viewer agrees.
Mirrored selfies
Front cameras often mirror the shot, so text reads backward and you face the wrong way. A horizontal flip un-mirrors it to look the way people actually see you.
Sideways scans and documents
A page scanned in the wrong orientation reads sideways. Rotate it upright before sharing or converting, all without uploading a private document.
Matching a layout
Flip an image so the subject faces into a page rather than off the edge, or rotate a graphic to fit a slot. Combine both to get the exact orientation a layout needs.
Tips that help
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Rotate to fix orientation, flip to mirror
Use rotation when the whole image is turned the wrong way, and flip when it is mirrored. A front-camera selfie usually needs a horizontal flip, not a rotation.
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Quarter turns do not hurt quality
Ninety degree rotations rearrange pixels without resampling, so rotate as often as you need. Only arbitrary-angle straightening softens an image.
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Strip leftover metadata after
Rotating bakes the correct orientation into the pixels. If you also want to clear location and camera data, run the result through the remove EXIF tool.
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Crop or resize next if needed
Once the orientation is right, crop to reframe or resize to exact dimensions. Fixing orientation first makes those steps behave predictably.
Rotate and flip images in the browser: orientation, mirroring, and the sideways-photo fix
Rotating and flipping are the two operations that fix an image's orientation, and they solve different problems. Rotation turns the whole picture, which is how you correct a photo that imported sideways or stand a portrait back up. Flipping mirrors it, which is how you fix a selfie that came out reversed or face a subject the other way. This guide covers when to use each, why phone photos so often appear sideways, and how doing it locally keeps the work private.
Rotating versus flipping, and when each one is right
Rotation spins the image around its center in 90 degree steps. One step turns a portrait into a landscape and vice versa, two steps turn it upside down, and three steps is a quarter turn the other way. Use it when the whole picture is oriented wrong, like a document scanned sideways or a photo that landed 90 degrees off.
Flipping mirrors the image across an axis. A horizontal flip swaps left and right, so text reads backward and a face turns to look the other way. A vertical flip swaps top and bottom. Use it to un-mirror a selfie, to make a subject face into a layout instead of out of it, or to match the direction of a paired image.
The two combine cleanly. You might rotate a phone photo upright and then flip it horizontally because the front camera mirrored it. Apply both, check the preview, and download once with every change baked in.
Why phone photos show up sideways
Cameras usually capture the sensor in one fixed direction and then record how the phone was held in an EXIF orientation tag. A viewer that reads the tag rotates the photo for display, so it looks upright. A viewer that ignores the tag shows the raw sensor data, so the same photo appears sideways or upside down.
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That is why a picture can look correct in your gallery but sideways when uploaded to a website or opened on another device: the two programs disagree about whether to honor the tag. It is not that the image is broken, just that its orientation lives in metadata some software skips.
Rotating the image here fixes it permanently. The correct orientation is drawn into the actual pixels and saved, so the tag no longer matters. Every viewer, tag-aware or not, now shows it the right way up. If you also want to strip the leftover metadata, remove the EXIF data afterward.
Rotation is lossless, so use it freely
A 90, 180, or 270 degree rotation does not resample the image. It moves each pixel to a new position without inventing or blending anything, so in principle no detail is lost. The only cost is one re-save: a JPG is re-encoded once at high quality, which is visually indistinguishable from the source, and a PNG or WebP with lossless settings loses nothing at all.
This is different from arbitrary-angle rotation, like nudging a photo three degrees to straighten a horizon. That kind of rotation has to resample and fill new corners, which does soften the image slightly. Straight 90 degree turns avoid all of that, which is why orientation fixes are essentially free.
So there is no reason to hesitate. Rotate a batch of sideways scans or turn a portrait landscape as often as you need without worrying about cumulative damage, because quarter turns do not degrade the picture.
Doing it locally keeps your images private
The images people rotate are often the private ones: a scanned document that came in sideways, a screenshot of a message, a photo of an ID. Uploading those to a server just to spin them 90 degrees is more exposure than the task deserves.
This tool never uploads anything. The image is drawn onto a canvas in your browser, rotated or mirrored on your own device, and handed straight back for download. It does not touch a server at any point in the process.
The flow is quick: drop an image, tap rotate or flip until the preview looks right, and download. The output keeps the original format, and there is no account, no watermark, and no cost. If the picture also needs cropping or resizing, the crop and resize tools pick up where this leaves off.
Frequently asked questions
Honest answers to what people ask before using this tool.
Further reading
Independent references if you want to go deeper on the formats and tradeoffs.