Image Rotator
Turn a photo 90 degrees at a time until it is the right way up, then download the rotated copy.
Click to upload an image
How to use this tool
- Click the upload area and choose the image you want to turn.
- Use Rotate Left or Rotate Right to turn it 90 degrees at a time. The preview turns with each click.
- Keep clicking until the picture is the right way up. Four clicks in the same direction returns you to the start.
- Check the rotation reading under the buttons if you want to confirm the angle.
- Click Download Rotated Image to save the corrected copy as a PNG.
About this tool
Turn a photo the right way up and save it that way, permanently. The usual cause of a sideways picture is an orientation tag. Phones and cameras record which way the device was held rather than physically rotating the pixels, and software is inconsistent about honouring that tag. So a photo looks upright in your gallery, then arrives sideways in an email, a document, a print shop's uploader or a website's gallery. Rotating it here bakes the correct orientation into the pixels themselves, so every piece of software after this point agrees. Rotation is in 90 degree steps, which is what almost every real rotation job needs: a portrait photo that came out landscape, a scan that fed in the wrong way round, a document photographed upside down. Four clicks in one direction brings you back to where you started, so nothing is ever stuck. A quarter turn is lossless in the sense that matters. No pixel is interpolated or invented, the image is simply redrawn with its width and height swapped, so a rotated photo is exactly as sharp as the original. The file is written out as a PNG, which adds no compression of its own. Everything runs in your browser. The image is never uploaded to a server.
Frequently asked questions
How do I rotate a photo that is sideways?
Upload it, then click Rotate Right or Rotate Left until it looks correct in the preview, and download. Each click is a quarter turn, so a photo lying on its side needs one click and an upside down one needs two.
Why does my photo look upright on my phone but sideways everywhere else?
Because the camera stored an orientation flag instead of rotating the actual pixels. Your phone's gallery reads that flag; a lot of other software ignores it. Rotating the image here writes the correct orientation into the pixels, which fixes it for every program that opens the file afterwards.
Does rotating an image lose quality?
Not at 90, 180 or 270 degrees. A quarter turn just maps each pixel to a new position with the width and height swapped, so no detail is invented or averaged away. The saved file is a PNG, which is lossless, so the download is exactly as sharp as what you uploaded.
Can I rotate by an angle other than 90 degrees?
Not here. Free angle rotation has to interpolate every pixel, which softens the image, and it leaves empty corners that need cropping or filling. This tool sticks to the quarter turns that cover almost every real rotation job and keeps the result perfectly sharp.
How do I flip an image instead of rotating it?
Rotating turns the picture; flipping mirrors it, which is a different operation and reverses any text in the image. Use the Image Flipper for horizontal or vertical mirroring.
What format is the rotated image saved as?
PNG. It is lossless, so the rotation does not add compression artefacts on top of whatever the original already had. If you need a smaller file afterwards, run the result through the Image Compressor.
Is my image uploaded to a server?
No. The file is read into your browser and redrawn on a canvas on your own device. Nothing is transmitted, stored or logged.