Rotate and Flip Image Online

For 90, 180 and 270 degree rotations of PNG, WebP or GIF images, there is no quality loss since the pixels are simply rearranged without re-encoding. For JPEG output, the image is re-encoded at 92% quality, which is imperceptibly different from the original. For arbitrary angle rotations like 15 or 45 degrees, there is a small amount of softening at pixel edges due to the interpolation required to rotate a rectangular grid by a non-right angle. This is true of all image rotation tools.

When you rotate by a non-right angle, the output canvas must grow to fit the full rotated image without cropping any corners. A 1000x1000 pixel image rotated 45 degrees needs a canvas of approximately 1414x1414 pixels to contain the tilted image. The extra corner areas are filled with your chosen background color or left transparent. This larger canvas is why the output file is bigger.

Rotating turns the entire image clockwise or counter-clockwise around its centre point, like turning a steering wheel. The content faces a different direction. Flipping creates a mirror image: horizontal flip mirrors left-to-right, vertical flip mirrors top-to-bottom. You can combine any rotation angle with any flip in a single operation.

Phones sometimes save photos with the pixel data in the sensor's native orientation and store the correct viewing orientation in a metadata field called EXIF Orientation. Some software reads this tag and displays the photo correctly, while others (many websites, CMSs and email clients) ignore it and show the raw sideways pixels. The fix is to rotate the actual pixel data. Use the 90 degree rotation buttons in this tool to correct the orientation, then download the fixed file. The output has the pixels in the correct position with EXIF Orientation set to Normal.

No. Everything runs in your browser using the Canvas API. Your image is never sent to any server. The preview uses CSS transforms on the image element directly in your browser. The download uses the canvas to re-render and export the image locally. You can disconnect from the internet after the page loads and the tool still works.

Choose PNG or WebP if your rotation angle is not a multiple of 90 degrees and you want transparent corners rather than filled ones. Choose JPG for photos where the smallest possible file size matters more than transparency support. Choose Original to keep the same format as your source file. WebP gives the smallest file size with full transparency support and is supported by all modern browsers.