Rotate an Image
Your image stays in your browser and is never uploaded. Maximum 10 MB and 25 megapixels.
What this tool does
A photo that arrives sideways or upside down is straightened here in one click. You pick a quarter turn clockwise, a quarter turn anticlockwise or a half turn, see the result immediately and download a new copy. A quarter turn naturally swaps width and height: a landscape photo of 1600 by 900 becomes portrait at 900 by 1600. The result is always saved as PNG. That is a deliberate choice — PNG is lossless, so rotating costs no image quality at all, whereas re-saving as JPEG shaves a little off with every edit. If you want the result as JPEG or WebP afterwards, use the convert tool. Everything happens locally in your browser: nothing is uploaded, logged or kept. Free and unlimited to use, including commercially — no account, no licence, no watermark, no limits.
What people use this for
- 90° clockwise, for a photo that came in sideways
- 90° anticlockwise
- 180° for a scanned page that is upside down
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Which angles can I choose?
Quarter turns: 90 degrees clockwise, 90 degrees anticlockwise and 180 degrees. Those are the rotations where no pixel has to be recalculated — the image is literally moved rather than redrawn, so quality stays exactly the same. A free angle of, say, 7 degrees to straighten a tilted horizon is not among them: that requires interpolating every pixel and cropping the image to hide the empty corners.
Why does my photo look tilted when it looks fine on my phone?
Many cameras always store the photo in the same orientation and record the actual orientation in an EXIF field. Some programs read that field and rotate the photo when displaying it; others ignore it. So the same photo can look right on your phone and sideways elsewhere. If you rotate it here, the rotation is baked into the pixels and the photo is correctly oriented everywhere — the EXIF field disappears when the image is redrawn.
What format is the result saved in?
Always PNG, regardless of what you put in. PNG is lossless, so the rotation itself costs no quality. If the result were saved as JPEG, every editing round would degrade the photo a little further. The downside is that a PNG of a photo is larger than the JPEG it came from; if you want a smaller file, run the result through the convert or compression tool.
Does the image stay on my device?
Yes. The file is read by your browser, rotated on a canvas and offered straight back as a download. Nothing goes to our server, nothing is logged and nothing is kept. You can see in the network tab of your developer tools that rotating triggers no request at all.