Rotate by a right angle or by any angle
The angle slider goes from −180° to 180° in steps of one degree, and the preview follows as you drag it. The tool handles two cases differently.
Right angles (90°, 180°, −90°). The picture turns without any gap. A quarter turn swaps width and height — a 4000 × 3000 landscape photo becomes 3000 × 4000 — and no color is added anywhere. This is what you need for a phone photo or a scan that came out sideways.
Any other angle. A rotated rectangle sticks out of its original frame, so the tool computes the smallest canvas that contains the whole turned image. Nothing is cropped. The four triangles around it are filled with the corner fill color, or left transparent if you tick the option. Small angles, such as 2° or −3°, are the way to straighten a tilted horizon or a crooked document photo.
Common angles
| Angle | Result | Typical use |
|---|---|---|
| 90° | Quarter turn clockwise | Photo or scan lying on its left side |
| −90° | Quarter turn counterclockwise | Photo lying on its right side |
| 180° | Upside down | Scan fed in the wrong way |
| 1° to 5° (or −1° to −5°) | Slight tilt | Straighten a horizon or a page |
| 45° | Diamond shape | Graphic and badge layouts |
Why photos show up sideways
Phones usually store a photo in the sensor’s orientation and add an EXIF orientation tag that tells apps how to display it. Some programs and websites ignore that tag, so the picture appears rotated. This tool rotates the pixels themselves, so the result looks right everywhere, and since the output carries no EXIF data, no other app can turn it again by mistake.
Rotate, flip or mirror?
Rotating keeps the image readable — text in it still reads normally, just at an angle. If text reads backwards after your change, you need a flip instead: Flip Image reverses the picture horizontally or vertically, and Mirror Image reverses it left to right or makes it symmetrical. Note that 180° rotation and flipping on both axes give the same result.
After a tilt you may want clean straight edges again: crop the result slightly in any photo editor, or pick a corner fill color that matches the photo’s edges. Make Image Square pads rather than crops, so use it when you want an even square frame around the turned picture.
Formats and privacy
You can open JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF (first frame), BMP and SVG files, plus HEIC photos from an iPhone. JPG, PNG and WebP stay in their format (Safari, which can’t save WebP, gets PNG instead); HEIC and AVIF are saved as JPG, and SVG, GIF and BMP as PNG.
The rotation is done with your browser’s canvas on your own device. Nothing is uploaded, the page works offline once loaded, and metadata such as GPS location is not copied into the rotated file.