Rotate and Flip Image

Your phone or camera often saves a photo in the same orientation no matter how you held it, then adds a small note that says which way is up. Apps that read the note show the photo upright. Apps that ignore it show it sideways or upside down. That's why a picture can look fine on your phone and wrong after you upload it somewhere.

The quickest fix is the Fix orientation only button in the settings. It turns the photo upright using the note the camera saved and then removes the note, so every app agrees. If any of your photos carry this note, the tool tells you how many.

The same behavior is controlled by Auto-orient in Advanced settings (optional), which is on by default. Turn it off only if you want the pixels exactly as stored.

If a photo is simply on its side because of the scene, such as a document you shot rotated, use the rotate buttons instead.

The five buttons in the Rotate and flip card each act on what you see, and they apply to every photo on the page right away.

• Rotate left 90° and Rotate right 90° turn the photo a quarter turn.
• Rotate 180° turns it upside down.
• Flip horizontal mirrors it left to right. Use it for a selfie, or for text that reads backward.
• Flip vertical mirrors it top to bottom.

A line under the buttons describes the current state in words, for example "Rotated 90° right, flipped horizontally", and Reset takes you back to the start.

For a tilted horizon, use Straighten. Drag the slider or type an angle from −45 to 45 degrees in steps of 0.1. Positive angles turn the picture clockwise, and negative angles turn it counterclockwise. Turning by a small angle leaves empty corners, so choose one of two ways to deal with them: Crop to remove empty corners trims the picture to a clean rectangle, and Expand canvas keeps everything and fills the corners with a color you choose.

Once the photo is upright, you may want to trim it with Crop Image.

Browsers can't turn a JPG without re-encoding it, so a rotated JPG is saved again. To keep the loss small, this tool saves rotated JPGs at high quality. An "i" tip next to the buttons says the same thing.

If you want to avoid any further loss, set the output to PNG in the output choices. PNG keeps every pixel, though the file will be larger. The other choices are Same as original, JPG and WebP.

A rotated photo that comes out too big to attach to an email or upload to a form can go through Compress Image afterward, where you can set a size such as 500 KB. If you need a different pixel size, the Image Resizer handles that.

Each photo in a batch can be turned differently. Open the settings button on its row to set rotation for that photo alone, and use Save and apply to keep it.