Rotate and Flip Image

The controls are few, and a whole folder of pictures can be turned in a single pass.

1. Drop your images onto the upload area, click it to choose files, or paste one from the clipboard.
2. Under Rotate, choose Do not rotate, 90° clockwise, 180° or 90° anticlockwise.
3. Tick Flip horizontally (mirror left to right) and/or Flip vertically (upside down) if you want a mirror image as well.
4. Set the Output format (Same as input, JPEG, WebP or PNG) and the Quality slider. Raise quality to 90 or more for photographs you want to keep.
5. Click Rotate images. If you have chosen no rotation and no flip, the tool asks you to choose something first.
6. Download each edited picture, or use Download all. Names end in "-edited".

The tool applies any flips to the original picture and then rotates the result. For a single operation the order is irrelevant, but when you combine them it decides the outcome. Imagine a 4000 x 3000 landscape photo with a signpost on its left side. Rotating 90° clockwise gives a 3000 x 4000 portrait, with the signpost now at the top. Flipping horizontally on its own keeps the 4000 x 3000 size and moves the signpost to the right. Choosing both flips the original first and then turns it, so the signpost ends up at the bottom of the portrait image.

Some pairs cancel or merge. A 180° turn is the same as ticking both flip boxes, and a 180° turn combined with one flip equals the opposite flip. Width and height swap only for the 90° options, so a quarter turn never crops anything, and turning a picture upright costs no pixels.

Phones usually store pictures in the sensor orientation and add a small orientation tag saying how to display them. Modern browsers read that tag when they load the file, so a portrait shot that looks correct in the preview may be stored sideways. The tool works from the picture as the browser shows it, which means what you see is what gets rotated, and the saved file no longer needs the tag. If an image looks fine here but sideways in some other program, that old software ignored the tag; saving a rotated copy usually settles it.

Mirroring has its own uses. Front-camera selfies are often saved reversed, so flipping horizontally restores any lettering on a shirt or sign. Scans fed in upside down need a 180° turn, and designers flip artwork to check composition. For finished files, pair this tool with others: use the image cropper to trim the frame after turning, the image resizer for new dimensions, or the PDF rotator when the pages are already inside a document.

Rotation is limited to quarter turns. There is no slider to straighten a slightly tilted horizon, because a free-angle turn would need to fill or trim the corners. Use an editor for that. Saving as JPEG or WebP recompresses the image, and each recompression loses a little detail, so rotate once from the original rather than repeatedly from copies. The Quality slider starts at 90, which keeps photographs looking clean; lower it only when file size matters more than detail. PNG output is lossless but larger for photographs. If the edited file turns out heavier than you want, send it through the image compressor, and use the image converter when you only need another file type.