Rotate a photo by 90/180/270 degrees or flip it horizontally and vertically.
Rotate by 90/180/270 degrees, or flip horizontally/vertically
The Image Rotate & Flip Tool fixes photos that came out sideways or upside down, and lets you mirror an image horizontally or vertically. Phone cameras and scanners occasionally save a photo in the wrong orientation, and this tool corrects that instantly without needing a full photo editor.
The tool draws your photo onto a canvas that has been rotated using the canvas transform matrix, swapping the canvas width and height whenever a 90 or 270 degree rotation is chosen so the final image is not cropped or distorted. Flipping works by applying a negative horizontal or vertical scale to the same transform before drawing, which mirrors the picture along that axis.
Anyone who scans a document upside down uses this tool to correct the orientation before sharing or printing it. Photographers straighten out a sideways phone photo before uploading it to a website that does not auto-rotate images. Designers flip a photo horizontally to create a mirrored version for a symmetrical layout or design composition.
Rotating an image by 90 or 270 degrees swaps its width and height, so a wide landscape photo becomes a tall portrait photo and vice versa; keep this in mind if a specific aspect ratio is required afterward. Flipping a photo containing readable text will usually make that text back-to-front, so flipping works best on symmetrical scenes, logos intended for mirroring, or artistic effects rather than photos with writing in them. Combine this tool with the Image Cropper afterward if the rotated result needs further trimming to a specific size.
No, rotating by 90, 180 or 270 degrees simply repositions existing pixels without any resampling loss, so the result stays exactly as sharp as the original.
This tool focuses on the common fixed rotations of 90, 180 and 270 degrees, which covers the vast majority of sideways or upside-down photo situations.
Rotating turns the whole image around a central point, while flipping creates a mirror-image reflection along a horizontal or vertical axis, which is a different kind of transformation.
Yes, you can apply a rotation and a flip in the same session, and the tool combines both transformations before exporting the final image.
