Rotate & Flip Image
Rotate an image by 90°, 180° or any angle, and flip it horizontally or vertically. Straighten a crooked scan in your browser - no upload, no signup.
Drop your image file here
or click to browse files
A quarter turn and a free angle are not the same operation. Rotating by 90°, 180° or 270° only moves pixels to new positions, with no resampling at all - the result is pixel-for-pixel as sharp as the original. Any other angle has to interpolate between pixels, which very slightly softens edges. Prefer the 90° steps when they do the job, and reach for a free angle only when the photograph really is crooked.
Flipping is a pure mirror: it moves pixels but never resamples them, so it costs no quality at all. It is the right fix for a selfie that reads backwards, a photo taken in a mirror, or artwork that has to face the other way. Transparent areas stay transparent in PNG and WebP; JPEG cannot store transparency, so those areas are filled with white instead.
How to rotate or flip an image
Drop your image onto the page, or click to browse. You can add several files at once.
Type the angle you want - 90, 180, 270, or anything in between - and switch on horizontal or vertical flipping if you need a mirror.
Choose the output format, then convert and download the results individually or together as a ZIP.
FAQ
Does rotating an image lose quality?
A 90°, 180° or 270° turn does not: those angles only move pixels to new positions and never resample them, so the image stays exactly as sharp as the original. Any other angle must interpolate between neighbouring pixels and softens edges very slightly, which is why the quarter-turn steps are the better choice whenever they are enough.
What do negative angles and angles over 360° do?
Negative angles rotate anticlockwise, so -90° turns the image a quarter turn to the left. Anything beyond a full circle wraps around: 450° behaves exactly like 90°, and -450° like -90°. The field accepts anything from -360 to 360, which covers every direction you might want.
Can I flip the image instead of rotating it?
Yes. Horizontal and vertical flipping are separate switches, and they combine with any rotation. Flipping alone is a mirror image - useful for a selfie that reads backwards or a photo taken in a mirror - and because it never resamples pixels it costs no quality.
Will the tilted image be cropped at the corners?
No. The output canvas is enlarged to the rotated image's bounding box, so all four corners of the original stay visible. The trade-off is that a tilted image is larger than the source and has empty triangles at the corners - transparent in PNG and WebP, white in JPEG.
Which output format should I choose?
PNG when you want transparency in the corners or a lossless result, JPEG when a smaller file matters more and white corners are acceptable, and WebP when you want transparency and a small file together. The quality setting only affects the lossy formats.
Is my photo uploaded anywhere?
No. The rotation happens on a canvas inside your browser, so the file never leaves your device and there is no server-side size limit. That also means it works offline once the page has loaded.
At a glance
| Input | image |
|---|---|
| Multiple files | Yes |
| Where it runs | In your browser - files are never uploaded |
| Works offline | Yes — once the page has loaded |
| Price | Free, no sign-up, no watermark |
Choosing between JPG, PNG, WebP and AVIF
These formats solve different problems, and picking the wrong one costs you either quality or file size. JPG is the safest choice for photographs and for anything you need to send to someone else, because every device and program opens it - but it is lossy and has no transparency. PNG is lossless and supports transparency, which makes it right for logos, screenshots, diagrams and anything with sharp edges or text, at the cost of a much larger file. WebP typically beats JPG by 25-35% at the same visible quality and supports transparency, but a few older programs still cannot open it. AVIF compresses even further, especially at low quality settings, but encoding is slower and support is the newest of the four. A practical rule: JPG to send, PNG to edit, WebP for your own website, AVIF when every kilobyte counts and you have checked that your audience can open it.
How much quality you actually lose
Lossy compression throws away detail your eye is least likely to notice - first fine texture, then edges. In practice most photographs look identical to the original down to roughly 75-80% quality, and differences only become obvious around faces, hair, foliage, fabric patterns and text. That is why a portrait and a screenshot need different settings: a face at 60% shows blotchy skin where a landscape at 60% still looks fine. Resizing matters more than quality for perceived sharpness: halving the pixel dimensions usually saves far more than dropping quality from 90 to 60, and the result looks better. If you need a specific file size, reduce dimensions first, then quality, and stop as soon as you hit the target rather than going lower than necessary.