Rotate & Flip

Rotate images by 90, 180, 270 degrees or any custom angle. Flip horizontally or vertically. Combine rotation with mirroring.

Drag & drop an image or click to browse

PNG, JPG, WebP, AVIF, TIFF — max 10MB

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What is Rotate & Flip?

The rotate and flip tool provides complete image orientation control with preset rotation angles (90, 180, 270 degrees clockwise), custom rotation by any degree, and horizontal/vertical flipping (mirroring). Operations can be combined — for example, rotate 90 degrees and flip horizontally in a single step. This free online image rotator is commonly used for correcting photo orientation when images appear sideways or upside down (common with photos transferred from cameras or older smartphones that don't properly set EXIF orientation), creating mirrored versions of images for design symmetry, adjusting scanned documents that were fed at the wrong angle, preparing images for specific layout requirements, and creating artistic mirrored effects for social media graphics.

All processing happens in your browser — images are never uploaded to a server.

How to Use

  1. 1Upload the image you want to rotate or flip (supports JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF)
  2. 2Select a preset rotation: 90 (quarter turn right), 180 (upside down), or 270 degrees (quarter turn left)
  3. 3Or enter any custom angle for precise rotation (e.g., 45 degrees for diagonal tilt)
  4. 4Optionally apply horizontal flip (mirror left-right) or vertical flip (mirror top-bottom)
  5. 5Preview the result and download when satisfied

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do I rotate an image 90 degrees online?
Upload your image and click the 90-degree rotation button. The image instantly rotates clockwise by a quarter turn. Click again for 180 degrees (upside down), or select 270 degrees for a quarter turn counter-clockwise. You can also enter any custom angle from 0 to 360 degrees for precise rotation. The tool handles all image formats (JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF) and preserves the original quality.
What is the difference between rotating and flipping an image?
Rotation turns the image around its center by a specified angle — like turning a piece of paper. The content stays in the same relative position, just at a different angle. Flipping creates a mirror image: horizontal flip mirrors left to right (like seeing your reflection in a mirror), and vertical flip mirrors top to bottom (like seeing your reflection in water). Text in a flipped image becomes backwards, while rotated text stays readable. These are fundamentally different transformations.
Can I combine rotation and flip in one operation?
Yes — you can select any rotation angle and add a horizontal or vertical flip simultaneously. The tool applies both transformations in a single step. This is useful when an image needs both orientation correction and mirroring, such as fixing a scanned document that was both upside down and reversed.
Why do my photos appear sideways or upside down?
This usually happens because of EXIF orientation metadata. When you take a photo with your phone held vertically, the camera stores the image data in landscape orientation and adds an EXIF tag telling apps to display it rotated. Some applications (older browsers, certain image editors, email clients) don't read this EXIF tag and display the raw orientation instead. Rotating the image to the correct orientation and saving it permanently fixes this issue, overriding the EXIF-dependent display.
Does rotating an image reduce quality?
Rotating by 90, 180, or 270 degrees is lossless for all formats — pixels are simply rearranged without any resampling. Custom angle rotations (like 45 degrees) do involve interpolation to fill the new pixel positions, which can introduce very slight softening. For JPEG images, any rotation that requires re-encoding will add minimal compression artifacts. For maximum quality with custom angles, use PNG format which is lossless.

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