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Rotate & Flip Image

Turn or mirror any image in one click — free, private, right in your browser.

Drag & drop an image, or click to browse

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What Is Rotate & Flip?

Rotating turns an image around its center — the classic fix for a photo taken with the phone held sideways, or a scanned page that came out upside down. Flipping mirrors it left-right or top-bottom, useful for correcting a mirrored selfie or reversing a scanned image. Both are lossless: no pixel data is added or removed, just repositioned, so you can rotate and flip an image as many times as you need without any cumulative quality loss the way repeated JPEG re-saves would cause.

How to Use This Tool

  1. 1Upload your imageDrag and drop it in, or click to browse.
  2. 2Rotate or flipClick Rotate Left/Right to turn it 90° at a time, or Flip to mirror it.
  3. 3Combine as neededRotations and flips stack — undo by clicking the same button again.
  4. 4Download the resultInstant download, no watermark, no sign-up.

When You'll Actually Need This

  • Scanned documents — a flatbed scanner or scanning app frequently produces sideways or upside-down pages that need a quick 90° or 180° correction before sharing or printing.
  • Front-camera selfies — many phone front cameras save a mirror-flipped image compared to what you saw in the preview; flipping it back matches how other people actually see you.
  • Screenshots taken on a rotated device — a phone held sideways for a landscape screenshot sometimes saves the image in the wrong orientation.
  • Correcting a batch import — photos pulled from an old camera or SD card sometimes carry the wrong orientation flag, showing up sideways in a gallery even though the sensor captured them correctly.

Good to Know

  • A photo taken sideways on a phone usually needs one 90° rotation to look right — this is common when a phone's orientation sensor doesn't match how the photo was actually held.
  • Flip horizontal mirrors left-right (useful for correcting a "selfie" mirror effect); flip vertical mirrors top-bottom.
  • Rotating by 90° or 270° swaps the image's width and height — a portrait photo becomes landscape and vice versa, which can affect how it fits into a layout designed for the original shape.
  • Nothing is uploaded — rotation and flipping happen entirely in your browser.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does rotating an image lose quality?

No — rotating and flipping by 90° increments are lossless operations; every pixel is simply repositioned, none are altered or discarded. The only exception is if you also re-export in a lossy format like JPEG, which applies its usual small compression regardless of rotation.

Can I rotate by a custom angle, not just 90°?

This tool rotates in 90° steps, which covers the vast majority of real use cases (sideways phone photos, mirrored images, rotated scans). Arbitrary-angle rotation — say, straightening a slightly tilted horizon — needs a different kind of tool since it involves cropping the corners that rotation leaves blank.

What's the difference between rotate and flip?

Rotating turns the whole image around a center point, like spinning a photograph — think of turning a printed photo in your hand. Flipping mirrors it along an axis, like looking at it in a mirror, without changing which way is "up".

Why does rotating 90° change my image's dimensions?

A 1200×800px landscape photo rotated 90° becomes an 800×1200px portrait photo — the width and height swap places, since you're physically turning the whole grid of pixels on its side.

My phone photo looks correctly oriented already but shows sideways here — why?

Some photos store orientation as metadata (an EXIF rotation flag) rather than physically rotating the pixel data — your phone's gallery reads that flag and displays it correctly, but not every app does. Rotating it here bakes the correct orientation directly into the pixels, so it displays correctly everywhere.

Is my image uploaded anywhere?

No. Everything happens locally in your browser using the Canvas API.