Rotate & Flip Images Online — 90° Steps or Any Angle
Straighten horizons with a degree slider, rotate in 90° steps, or mirror any picture horizontally and vertically — with a custom background fill.
Drag & drop your images here
or click to browse — several files welcome, pasting works too
Guide & tips for this tool
Fix orientation in seconds
Photos shot in a hurry — or scanned at a slight skew — rarely come out perfectly level. This tool combines three orientation fixes in one place: 90-degree rotation buttons for sideways shots, horizontal and vertical flips for mirrored selfies and scanned documents, and a free-angle slider from −180° to +180° for straightening horizons by fractions of a degree. The preview updates live as you drag the slider, so you can line up a building edge or the sea line by eye and stop exactly when it looks right.
What happens at custom angles
Rotating a rectangle by anything other than a multiple of 90° leaves empty triangular corners. The tool automatically grows the canvas to fit the whole rotated image — nothing is clipped unless you crop it later — and fills the new corners with a background color you choose. Pick white for documents, black for slideshows, or sample any brand color with the color picker. The checkerboard pattern behind the preview simply helps you see the fill; the downloaded file contains your chosen solid color.
Flips versus rotations
A flip mirrors the image along an axis: horizontal flip swaps left and right (the classic “mirror selfie” correction), while vertical flip turns the picture upside down. Flips are lossless geometric operations, and combining them with the rotation buttons covers every possible orientation a camera sensor flag might produce. If you regularly receive photos that display sideways because of EXIF orientation tags, rotate them here and download — re-encoding through the canvas bakes the orientation into the pixels, so the image displays correctly even in software that ignores EXIF flags.
Quality and privacy notes
The download preserves your format: PNG and WebP stay as-is, everything else exports as high-quality JPEG at 92% to keep file sizes sane. Arbitrary-angle rotation involves one resampling pass, which is unavoidable; 90° rotations and flips remain pixel-exact. As always on PiccTools, the image is processed entirely in your browser tab. Nothing is uploaded, logged or stored, which makes the tool safe for confidential documents and personal photos alike.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why do empty corners appear when I rotate by a custom angle?
Rotating a rectangle by a non-right angle leaves triangular gaps. The canvas expands to keep the whole image and fills the gaps with the background color you select.
Is rotating by 90° lossless?
The geometry is pixel-exact; the file is then re-encoded once in your original format (or JPEG), which at 92% quality is visually indistinguishable from the source.
How do I fix a mirrored selfie?
Click “Flip horizontal”. Text and logos that appeared backwards will read correctly again.
My photo displays sideways in some apps — will this help?
Yes. Rotating here bakes the orientation into the pixels and removes reliance on EXIF orientation flags that some software ignores.
Can I rotate and then crop the result?
Absolutely. Download the rotated image, then open it in the Crop tool to trim the filled corners away.
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