Rotate an image
Turn sideways photos the right way up, one image or a whole batch.
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How it works
Add your images
Drag and drop, paste, or pick files. They upload over an encrypted connection.
Pick a quality or a target size
Use the quality slider, or tell it exactly how many KB or MB you need.
Download
Save each file, or grab them all at once as a ZIP.
Phones and cameras do not always record which way up a picture was taken, and scanners rarely do. Use the rotate buttons to turn an image a quarter turn left or right; press twice for upside down. The turn is applied to the picture's actual pixels, so it shows correctly in every program, including those that ignore orientation tags.
Many sideways photos are caused by exactly that tag: the file is stored on its side with a note saying how to display it, and some websites and older software do not read the note. This tool reads it first, so what you see here is the way the picture is meant to look, and the downloaded file is stored upright with the note removed.
The rotation applies to every image you have added, which makes it quick to fix a whole folder of scans. A quarter turn swaps width and height and loses nothing from the frame. The file is saved again in its original format at a high quality setting; PNG output stays lossless. Uploads use an encrypted connection, the work is done on our own servers, and files are deleted within one hour.
Straightening a tilted horizon
A sea that slopes or a building that leans is usually off by one to three degrees. Move the Fine angle slider until a line that should be level is level; positive numbers turn the picture clockwise. A turned rectangle no longer fits its old frame, so the canvas grows slightly and four thin triangles appear at the corners. They are transparent in PNG, WebP and AVIF, and take the background colour in JPG.
To be rid of the triangles, download the straightened picture and put it through the crop tool, trimming just inside them. At two degrees you lose only a narrow strip on each side.
The orientation tag, explained
A camera sensor is a fixed rectangle. When you hold a phone upright, most cameras still record the pixels in the sensor's own landscape order and add a small tag to the file that says to display it turned by 90 degrees. Gallery apps and browsers obey the tag, so you never notice. Many upload forms, older viewers, some print kiosks and a good deal of software that handles images in bulk do not read it, and there your portrait lies on its side.
The cure is to turn the pixels themselves and drop the tag, which is what happens to every file that passes through this tool, even if you press no rotate button at all. Afterwards the file has only one possible way up.
Scans that came out the wrong way
Document feeders are a steady source of rotated pages: a stack put in upside down, or landscape tables in a portrait report. Add the whole batch and one press of the button turns every page. For a mixed stack, select the pages that differ and switch on Only this image before turning them, so the others stay as they are. Scanned pages rarely carry an orientation tag, so what you see in the preview is exactly what the file holds.
Frequently asked questions
Will rotating reduce the quality?
PNG stays lossless. JPEG and WebP are saved again at high quality, so any change is very small.
Why does my photo look upright here but sideways elsewhere?
It carries an orientation tag that some programs ignore. Download it from here and the pixels themselves are upright.
Can I rotate by an angle other than 90 degrees?
Yes. Next to the quarter-turn buttons there is a Fine angle slider that takes any whole number of degrees. The picture grows to hold the turned image, and the corners this adds are transparent, or the background colour in JPG and BMP.
Can I rotate many images at once?
Yes. The rotation applies to every image in the batch, up to twenty without an account.
Is rotating a JPEG completely lossless?
Not here. The turned picture is encoded again at a high quality, which costs a trace of detail that you will not see. PNG, and WebP or AVIF in Lossless mode, are turned with no loss at all.
Does the rotated file keep its date and camera data?
By default all metadata is removed, the orientation tag included. Choose to keep metadata in the editor if you need the capture date to stay in the file.