Rotate an image
Turn a sideways photo the right way up and save the new orientation into the file.
- Runs on your device — the file is never sent anywhere
- No sign-up, no watermarks, no daily quotas
- Free, with no limit on how often you use it
How it works
Photos arrive sideways surprisingly often, usually because a camera recorded the orientation as metadata that the receiving software then ignored. Rotating here redraws the image at its new orientation, so the file itself is correct and every program will show it the same way.
Redrawn, not flagged
Some tools record a rotation flag and leave the pixels alone, which works until something reads the file without honouring the flag. This redraws the image onto a rotated canvas, so the correction is in the pixels and cannot be ignored.
Dimensions swap on a quarter turn
Rotating by 90 or 270 degrees exchanges width and height — a 4000×3000 photo becomes 3000×4000. A 180 degree turn keeps the dimensions as they were.
Format and quality
PNG images stay PNG, so transparency survives. Everything else is written as JPG at high quality. Because the image is re-encoded, a JPG loses a very small amount of quality; rotating repeatedly compounds that, so rotate once from the original where you can.
Rotate an image — questions
Will the rotation stick when I send the file?
Yes. The image is redrawn at the new orientation, so the correction is in the pixels themselves rather than a flag some software might ignore.
Does rotating reduce quality?
For PNG, no. For JPG there is a small re-encoding cost, which is why it is best to rotate once from the original.
Is my photo uploaded?
No. The rotation is done by your browser's own canvas. The image never leaves your device.