Image rotator
Rotates an image by 90° steps or a custom angle and re-exports it with the rotation baked in.
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JPG, PNG, WebP, BMP, AVIF · up to 60 MB · processed on your device
How to use it
- 1Add the image.
- 2Rotate in 90° steps or enter an angle.
- 3Download the rotated file.
Why a photo looks rotated on one device but not another
Phone cameras record orientation as an EXIF tag rather than physically rotating the pixels. Software that reads the tag shows the photo upright; software that ignores it shows it sideways. Rotating here writes the correct orientation into the pixels themselves, so the file looks the same everywhere.
90° rotation versus a custom angle
Rotating by a multiple of 90° simply reorders pixels — nothing is interpolated and nothing is lost. A custom angle has to resample the grid, which softens the image very slightly and adds empty corners, filled here with transparency for PNG and WebP output or white for JPEG.
Frequently asked questions
- Does rotating reduce quality?
- 90° steps do not. Arbitrary angles resample the image and re-encoding to a lossy format adds a small loss.