Rotate Image Online

This page lets you rotate image files in a few seconds: add a picture, turn it with the buttons or the slider, and download the result. A live preview shows exactly what you will get, with a grid to line things up, and every picture you add gets the same turn, so a whole batch is done in one go.

Everything happens inside your browser. Your photos are read, turned and saved on your own device and are never uploaded to a server. JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP, AVIF and HEIC pictures all work, and you can add up to 100 at a time.

Pictures end up the wrong way round more often than you might think. A phone held sideways, a camera that guessed its position wrongly, a document scanned upside down or a screenshot taken in landscape mode can all give a picture that shows up turned on a website, in an email or in a document.

Small tilts are just as common. A horizon that leans by two degrees, a building that seems to fall over, a photo of a sign or a whiteboard taken at a slight angle: each looks better when it is set level. And sometimes you want the opposite, a deliberate diagonal for a poster, a collage or a playful product shot.

This tool handles all three cases. Quarter turns fix sideways pictures, a fine angle setting with a grid fixes tilts, and any angle up to 180° in either direction gives you creative turns, with a choice of what happens to the corners.

You can rotate image online free here with no account, no email address, no watermark and no limit on how many batches you run. Nothing needs to be installed, and the page remembers your corner, background, file type and quality settings for your next visit, while the angle itself starts at zero each time.

It can stay free because your own device does the work. A server that turns pictures costs money for every file, which is why many services cap the number of pictures or ask you to sign up. In your browser there is no server cost for your pictures, so there is nothing to cap and no queue to wait in.

To rotate image to any angle, use the Angle card. The slider runs from −180° to 180° in steps of 0.1°, and the current value is shown next to the card title. Positive numbers turn the picture clockwise and negative numbers turn it anticlockwise, so 15 tilts the top of the picture to the right and −15 tilts it to the left.

The buttons under the preview cover the usual jobs. 90° left and 90° right make quarter turns, 180° turns the picture upside down, and Reset sets the angle back to zero and removes any flip. The quarter-turn buttons add to the angle you already have, so pressing 90° right twice gives 180°, and the value always stays within −180° to 180°.

Every picture in the batch gets the same angle. If your pictures need different turns, rotate them in separate rounds: add one group, rotate and download it, then press Clear and add the next.

When you know the exact number, typing it is quicker than dragging. To rotate image online by degree, click the number box next to the slider and enter a value such as 3.5, −12 or 90. The box takes one decimal place and accepts values from −360 to 360; the preview updates as you type.

For fine work, the −1° and +1° buttons beside the box nudge the angle by one degree at a time. That is handy for horizons and architecture: start with Auto straighten or a rough slider position, then step a degree up or down while you watch the grid. Each step keeps one decimal place, so a value of 2.3 becomes 3.3 or 1.3.

A 45° turn is the classic diagonal, used for badges, posters, collages and product shots that want a bit of energy. To rotate image online 45 degree style, type 45 or −45 in the number box. With No cropping, the picture sits on a larger canvas with its corners pointing up, down, left and right, and the empty triangles get the background you choose.

Expect the canvas to grow a lot at this angle. A square picture turned by 45° needs a canvas about 1.41 times as wide and as tall, because its diagonal now runs straight across. With Crop to fit, the opposite happens: the largest straight rectangle inside a square turned by 45° is only about 71% of the side, so you keep half of the area.

For a diagonal with a see-through background, choose No cropping with Transparent and save as PNG or WebP. The turned picture can then be placed on any page colour or added to a design without a box around it.

Sometimes you do not have a number in mind; you just want it to look right. To rotate image freely online, drag the Angle slider and watch the live preview. The picture turns as you move, in 0.1° steps, and you can stop as soon as the lines in the picture look right.

The grid helps a lot here. With Show a grid on the preview switched on, white lines split the preview into a six by six grid. Line up a horizon, a door frame, the edge of a table or a row of text with one of the lines, and you know it is level. The grid only appears in the preview, never in the downloaded picture.

If the grid gets in the way, for example on a very bright picture, turn it off under More options. Keyboard users can also move the slider with the arrow keys once it has focus.

Auto straighten looks for the tilt of the main lines in your picture and sets the angle for you. It measures the edges in a smaller copy of the first picture, finds the direction most strong edges share near horizontal and vertical, and turns the picture by that amount, up to 20° either way.

After a successful run, a short note says how far it turned, for example Straightened by 2.4°, and Corners switches to Crop to fit, so the empty corners that a tilt creates are cut away. If you would rather keep the whole picture, switch back to No cropping afterwards.

It works best on pictures with clear straight lines: horizons over water, buildings, shelves, document pages and screenshots that were photographed at an angle. On a close-up of a face, a forest or a picture with no strong lines, it may find nothing and says so: No clear tilt found. In that case set the angle yourself. Auto straighten adds its value to the current angle, so you can press it after a quarter turn too.

Turning a rectangle by anything other than a quarter turn leaves empty triangles at its corners. The Corners card decides what to do with them, with three choices: No cropping, Crop to fit and Keep size. The short line under the choice repeats what each one does, and the preview shows the result right away.

No cropping, marked bigger picture, is the default. It makes the canvas large enough to hold the whole turned picture, so nothing is lost. This is how you rotate image without cropping: every part of the original stays in view, and only the empty corners are new.

Those corners get the Background you pick. White is the default and suits documents and pictures for print. Transparent leaves them see-through, which is best for logos and cut-outs saved as PNG or WebP. Colour opens a colour picker for any solid colour, such as your brand colour or black for a gallery look.

Blurred photo fills the corners with a soft, enlarged and blurred copy of the picture itself, the same trick used for portrait videos shown on wide screens. It hides the corners in a natural way and works well for social posts and slides. If you save as JPG, which cannot hold transparency, a transparent background is filled with white instead.

Crop to fit cuts the turned picture down to the largest straight rectangle that fits inside it, so there are no empty corners and no background at all. It is the right choice for straightening photos, because the result looks like a normal photo that was simply taken level.

The cost is a smaller picture. A small tilt of 2° loses only a little around the edges, but the loss grows quickly with the angle, as the table above shows. That is why it is best kept for corrections of a few degrees. The shape of the rectangle follows the maths of the turned picture, so the proportions can change slightly as well.

Keep size gives the result the same width and height as the original. The turned picture is drawn in the middle, its corners are cut off at the edges, and the gaps are filled with your background. Use it when the picture must fit a fixed slot, such as a template, a frame or a page layout.

For quarter turns of a picture that is not square, Keep size is usually the wrong choice: a landscape photo turned by 90° inside a landscape frame loses its top and bottom. For those, use No cropping, which simply swaps width and height.

Can you rotate image without losing quality? For quarter turns, yes; for other angles, almost, and it is worth knowing why. A picture is a grid of square pixels. A turn of 90°, 180° or 270° moves every pixel to an exact new place on the same kind of grid, so nothing has to be guessed or blended.

Any other angle is different. After a turn of, say, 7°, the old pixels no longer sit on the new grid; each new pixel falls between several old ones. Its colour has to be worked out from its neighbours, which is called resampling, and it always softens the picture very slightly. The tool uses the browser's high-quality smoothing for this, and at normal viewing size the difference is hard to see.

Two habits keep the softening as small as possible. First, always turn the original, not a copy that was already turned, because each extra round of resampling adds a little blur. Second, choose the output format with care: PNG keeps the turned pixels exactly, while JPG and WebP compress them again, so keep the Quality slider high for those.

For JPG photos there is an even better way to make quarter turns. Most cameras and phones store a small orientation tag in the photo's EXIF data that tells viewers which way is up. With Turn JPG photos without re-saving them (90° steps) ticked under More options, which it is by default, the tool changes only that tag. The photo data itself stays byte for byte the same, so not a single pixel is re-compressed.

This happens automatically when three things are true: the original is a JPG, the angle is a multiple of 90°, and the file type is Same as original or JPG. Flips are included, so a mirrored or upside-down JPG can be made losslessly too. The result list then shows lossless (orientation tag) next to the file, and the note under the button says JPG photos are turned losslessly.

There is one catch, mentioned right in the tool: a few very old programs ignore the orientation tag and show the photo the way it was stored. Current browsers, phones, Windows, macOS and nearly all photo apps respect it. If the file goes to a very old system, untick the box and the photo is re-drawn with the pixels truly turned and saved again as a JPG at your quality setting.

Flip horizontal mirrors the picture left to right, as if seen in a mirror. Flip vertical turns it top to bottom. Press a button again to undo it, and you can combine them with any angle. Mirroring is useful for selfies that came out reversed, for text that appears backwards in a photo of a window, and for making two pictures face each other in a layout.

Like quarter turns, a flip moves pixels to exact new places, so it needs no blending. To flip image without losing quality, keep the angle at a multiple of 90°. A JPG is then flipped losslessly through the orientation tag, and a PNG keeps all its pixel values because PNG is a lossless format. Only when you combine a flip with an odd angle such as 12° is the picture resampled.

Keep in mind that both flips together equal a 180° turn. Flip vertical plus 180° gives the same result as Flip horizontal, which can be handy when you are working out how to get a scanned page the right way round.

To rotate image to landscape from a tall portrait picture, press 90° right or 90° left with Corners on No cropping. Width and height swap places, so a 3000 × 4000 picture becomes 4000 × 3000. Which button you need depends on where the top of the picture should end up: 90° right brings the left edge to the top, and 90° left brings the right edge to the top.

The same works the other way round for portrait. If the picture looks correct but the file is still reported as portrait on some site, the site may be ignoring the orientation tag. In that case untick the lossless JPG option or choose PNG, so the pixels themselves are turned and every program sees the same thing.

Note that turning a picture does not change what is in it. A portrait photo turned on its side is a landscape picture of a sideways scene. If you need a wide picture of an upright scene, use Crop Image to cut a wide strip instead.

On an iPhone or iPad you have two good options. The Photos app can turn a picture without any other tool: open the photo, tap Edit, tap the crop icon, and use the rotate button to turn it by 90° at a time. The straighten dial under the photo fixes small tilts, and the flip button mirrors it. The edit is saved in your library and can be undone later.

This page is the better choice for a rotate image iPhone job that Photos does not cover: an exact angle typed as a number, a turn without cropping on a white, coloured, transparent or blurred background, many photos with the same turn at once, or a file that must arrive turned in PNG, JPG or WebP. Open the page in Safari, tap Select pictures and choose Photo Library or Files.

HEIC photos from the iPhone camera open directly. Press Rotate picture, then Download; the file lands in Downloads in the Files app. To put it back into Photos, open it there, tap the share button and choose Save Image. Phones have less memory than computers, so for very large batches turn a few dozen photos at a time.

On Android, Google Photos can turn a picture under Edit and then Crop, with a rotate button for quarter turns and a dial for small tilts. For exact angles, batches or a turn without cropping, open this page in Chrome, tap Select pictures and pick photos from the gallery or a file manager; the results go to Downloads.

On Windows, the Photos app turns a picture with its rotate button, and in File Explorer you can right-click a JPG and choose Rotate right or Rotate left. On a Mac, Preview turns pictures with Command and R or Command and L, and Tools has both flips. These are fine for quick quarter turns of single files.

Use this page on a computer when you need more: fine angles in 0.1° steps, Auto straighten, three corner options, many pictures with one ZIP, or a guaranteed lossless JPG turn. It works the same in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, and nothing has to be installed.

Under More options, File type decides what the turned picture is saved as. Same as original is the default: JPG stays JPG, PNG stays PNG and WebP stays WebP, while GIF and BMP are saved as PNG, and HEIC and AVIF as JPG. Each file keeps its name with -rotated added, so holiday.jpg becomes holiday-rotated.jpg.

Choose PNG for screenshots, graphics, logos and anything with a transparent background; it stores the turned pixels without loss. Choose JPG for photos where a small file matters. WebP gives small files for websites and also keeps transparency.

The Quality slider runs from 60 to 100% and starts at 92%. It applies to JPG and WebP pictures that are re-drawn; PNG ignores it, and lossless JPG turns do not need it at all. For photos that will be edited again later, stay at 90 or above.

Add many pictures at once with Select pictures, by dropping a pile of files on the box, or with Add more after the first ones. Up to 100 pictures can be added in one go. The preview shows the first picture, and the line under the buttons reminds you that every picture gets the same turn.

Press Rotate followed by the number of pictures, and a list appears with each new file name, its pixel size, how it was turned and its file size. Save single files with the small download icon, or take them all at once with Download all (ZIP). Clear removes everything so you can start a new round.

A batch is ideal for a set of photos that came out sideways from the same camera, a stack of scanned pages that are all upside down, or a series of product shots that should all lean by the same angle.

HEIC and HEIF photos from iPhones and some Android phones open directly, even in browsers that cannot show them on their own; a small decoder loads in the page when it is needed. With File type on Same as original, they are saved as JPG, which every program opens. Choose PNG or WebP if you prefer. To convert HEIC photos without turning them, use HEIC to JPG.

Fix sideways pictures with quarter turns first; they are exact, and lossless for JPG.

Straighten with small angles and Crop to fit; anything over 10° loses a lot of the picture.

Always turn the original file, never a copy that was already turned.

Use the grid and the −1° and +1° buttons for the last bit of precision.

Save logos and diagonals with a transparent background as PNG or WebP.

Keep Quality at 90 or above for photos you may edit again.

Your pictures are not uploaded. The page reads them with your browser, turns them on your device and offers the results for download from there. They are not sent to our server, not stored and not seen by anyone, and they are gone when you close the page.

That matters for family photos, scanned ID cards and contracts, client work and anything private. Keep in mind that a lossless JPG turn keeps the photo's own details, such as location, inside the file. If you want those removed before sharing, use Remove Metadata afterwards.

When you add a picture, your browser decodes it and respects any orientation tag it already has, so what you see is the picture the right way up. For a lossless JPG turn, the tool reads the current orientation tag, works out the new one from your quarter turns and flips, and writes only that value back into a copy of the original file.

For every other turn, the picture is drawn onto a canvas of the planned size: larger for No cropping, smaller for Crop to fit, or the same for Keep size. The tool fills the background, turns and flips the picture around its centre with high-quality smoothing, and saves the canvas as PNG, JPG or WebP. Auto straighten measures edge directions in a small copy of the picture. When there are several results, the ZIP is packed in your browser too.

Need more than a turn? Crop Image cuts away the parts you do not need, Resize Image changes the pixel size, and Compress Image makes the files lighter. Add Border puts a frame around the result, and Watermark Image adds your name or logo.

Working with documents? Rotate PDF turns the pages of a PDF, and Image to PDF puts your turned pictures into one document. For iPhone photos, HEIC to JPG converts them for programs that do not open HEIC.