Image Rotate
Rotate and flip images online for free. No upload required — rotate 90°, 180°, 270° and flip horizontally or vertically, entirely in your browser.
How to Use
Rotate or flip your images in seconds:
- Upload your image — Drag and drop any image file, or click to browse.
- Choose transformations — Use the rotation buttons for 90° increments, or the flip buttons for horizontal/vertical mirroring. Combine multiple transformations.
- Preview — The live preview shows exactly how the output will look.
- Apply and download — Click "Apply transformation" then download the result.
About This Tool
Image rotation is a fundamental transformation that repositions pixels around a center point. For 90° increments (90°, 180°, 270°), the operation is lossless — each pixel is mapped to a new position without any interpolation or quality loss. This is unlike arbitrary-angle rotation (e.g., 15°), which requires sub-pixel interpolation and introduces slight blurring.
Flipping (mirroring) is a reflection transformation. Horizontal flip mirrors the image across its vertical center axis — left becomes right and right becomes left. Vertical flip mirrors across the horizontal center axis — top becomes bottom. Like 90° rotations, flips are mathematically exact with zero quality loss since pixels are merely repositioned.
When rotation involves dimension changes (90° or 270°), the output image dimensions are swapped — a 1920×1080 landscape image becomes a 1080×1920 portrait image. The Canvas API handles this automatically by adjusting the canvas dimensions before drawing the rotated image.
This tool uses CSS transforms for the real-time preview (applied via the transform property for instant visual feedback) and the Canvas 2D API for the actual pixel-level transformation when you click "Apply." The Canvas approach ensures the output is a properly oriented image file, not just a visually rotated display.
Why Use This Tool
Common reasons to rotate or flip images:
- Fix photo orientation — Smartphone photos sometimes display sideways or upside-down when the EXIF orientation flag is not read correctly by the viewing application.
- Portrait to landscape — Rotate photos taken in portrait mode to landscape orientation for presentations, documents, or web banners.
- Mirror selfies — Front-facing camera selfies are often mirror-reversed. Horizontal flip restores the natural (non-mirrored) perspective.
- Scanned document correction — Documents scanned at the wrong orientation can be quickly rotated to the correct reading direction.
- Design composition — Flip elements for symmetrical design layouts, mirror reflections, or creative photographic effects.