Image Rotator
Rotate images by 90, 180 or 270 degrees directly in your browser for quick orientation fixes and editing.
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Rotate an image by 90, 180 or 270 degrees in your browser — the fix for sideways scans, upside-down uploads and cameras that guessed the orientation wrong.
How to use this tool
- Choose the image that is facing the wrong way.
- Click the rotation you need: quarter turns clockwise or counter-clockwise, or 180 for upside-down.
- Download the corrected image.
Common uses
Righting a scanned document saved sideways, fixing photos that some apps display rotated, preparing a batch of product images shot in mixed orientations, and correcting a PDF-converted image before it goes into a document.
How it works
Rotation is done on a canvas: a 90 or 270 degree turn swaps width and height and rewrites every pixel into its new position — a true re-encode of the picture in the correct orientation, not a flag telling viewers to rotate it. That distinction matters: an EXIF orientation flag is honoured by photo apps but ignored by many web pipelines, office tools and printers, which is why a photo can look right in one place and sideways in another. A pixel-level rotation produced here looks right everywhere, because the pixels themselves are upright. A 180 turn keeps the dimensions and simply inverts the image.
Worked example
A 3000×4000 portrait photo uploaded sideways becomes, after one 90° turn, a 4000×3000 landscape file whose every viewer — browser, Word, the meeting-room display — shows it upright. Compare the flag approach: fix the EXIF tag and the file stays 3000×4000 with a note attached; the first tool that ignores the note shows it sideways again.
Privacy and browser processing
Your image is rotated in your browser on a local canvas — it is never uploaded or stored.
Frequently asked questions
Can I rotate by an arbitrary angle, like 3 degrees?
This tool does the quarter and half turns, which are lossless and cover orientation repair. Straightening a slightly tilted photo (deskewing) needs angle estimation and resampling with border fill — a photo-editor job.
Does rotation reduce quality?
A 90/180/270 rotation rearranges pixels without interpolation, so no sharpness is lost in the geometry. If the result is saved as JPEG it is re-encoded once, which at normal quality is visually indistinguishable; choose PNG output for a pixel-perfect intermediate.
Why is my photo sideways again after I fixed it in my gallery app?
Your gallery likely edited only the EXIF orientation flag, or the app you moved it to ignores the flag. Rotating the pixels here bakes the correction into the image data itself, so it survives every tool.
What happens to the metadata?
The output is a fresh encode from the canvas, so EXIF (including the now-moot orientation tag, camera data and GPS) is stripped. Keep the original if you need the metadata archive.
Is my image uploaded?
No. Rotation happens locally in your browser; the image never leaves your device.