Rotate Image
Rotate images 90°, 180°, 270°, or any custom angle. The canvas auto-expands to fit - no clipping, no quality loss at right angles.
Drop an image here or click to select
JPG, PNG, WebP - up to 50 MB
or paste an image with Ctrl+V / ⌘V
Your image is processed locally. Nothing is uploaded.
How to use Rotate Image
- 1
Upload your image
Drop a JPG, PNG or WebP image onto the tool or click to select from your device.
- 2
Choose a rotation
Click 90° CW, 90° CCW or 180° for quick rotations, or drag the angle slider for any custom angle between 0° and 359°.
- 3
Apply and download
Click "Apply Rotation". The canvas automatically expands to fit all rotated pixels - no content is clipped. Download in your chosen format.
Fixing image orientation
The most common reason to rotate an image is to correct its orientation. Smartphones and cameras record a rotation flag in the image's metadata, and most photo viewing software honours this flag to display the image correctly regardless of how the device was held. However, many platforms, editors, and publishing tools ignore the rotation flag and display the raw pixel data - which can result in landscape photos appearing portrait, or portrait subjects appearing sideways. Rotating the image and re-encoding it bakes the correct orientation into the pixel data, making it display correctly everywhere.
Straightening a slightly tilted photo is another common use. A horizon that is a degree or two off-level, a document scan taken at a slight angle, or an architectural photo where vertical lines appear to lean can all be corrected with a small custom angle rotation. The canvas automatically expands when rotating at non-right angles, so no content is cropped. After straightening, you may want to crop away the white corners that appear at the edges of a non-right-angle rotation.
Right-angle versus custom angle rotation
For 90°, 180°, and 270° rotations, the quality is identical to the original because each pixel maps exactly to a new position without interpolation. At custom angles, the image is resampled to fit the rotated grid, which introduces minimal softness at typical image sizes. If the output will be compressed as JPEG after rotation, the visual impact of this resampling is imperceptible. For lossless archiving of rotated images, PNG output preserves every pixel as precisely as the resampling allows.