The Image Rotator turns a picture by 90, 180 or 270 degrees, tilts it by a fine angle to straighten a crooked horizon, and flips it horizontally or vertically. When a tilt leaves empty corners, you can keep them transparent or fill them with a colour. The picture stays on your device.
How to use it
- Choose or drop an image.
- Pick a turn and, if you need it, fine-tune the angle.
- Tick a flip option for a mirror image.
- Choose a format and download.
When it helps
- Fixing a photo that was taken sideways.
- Straightening a slightly tilted horizon.
- Mirroring an image for a design.
- Correcting a scanned page.
Good to know
- PNG and WebP keep transparent corners; JPEG fills them with white.
- Small tilts of a few degrees are best, and the tool enlarges the canvas so nothing is cut off.
- Quarter turns don't change picture quality, because the pixels are only rearranged.
What the controls do
The turn menu applies a clean rotation by a quarter, a half or three quarters of a circle. Because those turns map each pixel exactly onto another, nothing is lost. The fine-tune slider adds up to 45 degrees in either direction on top of that, which is what you use to level a horizon.
The flip options mirror the picture across its vertical or horizontal centre line. A horizontal flip is what you want for selfies that came out reversed, or to see how a design looks facing the other way.
Worked example: straightening a horizon
A holiday photo of the sea is tilted by about two degrees. Set the fine tune to 2, and the horizon levels out, but the tilt leaves thin empty wedges in the corners. Either fill them with a colour that matches the sky, or crop in afterwards with the Image Cropper so only real picture remains.
That two-step approach, rotate then crop, is how most photo editors straighten pictures, and it gives the cleanest result.
Why a phone photo may be sideways
Phones record which way the camera was held in a small piece of metadata instead of rotating the pixels. Most software honours it, but some tools ignore it, so a picture can look fine on your phone and sideways elsewhere.
If that happens, rotate it by the right amount here and download a copy. The saved file contains the pixels in the right orientation, so every program will show it correctly.
Batch tips
If you have many photos with the same problem, rotate the first, check the result, and then repeat. Keeping the original files means you can always go back.
Questions
Will tilting blur my picture?
Slightly. Angles other than quarter turns resample the pixels, which can soften fine detail.
Can I flip without rotating?
Yes. Leave the turn at No turn and tick a flip option.