Utilities
Flip & Rotate
Flip horizontally, vertically, rotate 90°, 180°, 270°, or set any custom angle. Instant preview, download in your original format. Nothing uploaded to any server.
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Rotate 90° Left
Rotate 180°
Rotate 90° Right
Flip Horizontal
Flip Vertical
Reset All
Custom Rotation Angle
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About This Tool
How to Flip or Rotate an Image
- 1Drop or select your image — JPG, PNG, WebP, and most common formats are supported.
- 2To rotate, click 90° Clockwise or 90° Counter-clockwise. Click multiple times for 180° or 270° rotations.
- 3To flip, click Flip Horizontal (mirror left-right) or Flip Vertical (flip upside-down). Both can be combined with rotation.
- 4Preview the corrected image, then click Download. All processing is local — nothing is uploaded.
When to Flip or Rotate an Image
Fixing Phone Photo Orientation
Photos taken in portrait mode sometimes display sideways in browsers and apps that don't read EXIF orientation tags. Our guide on flipping and rotating images explains why this happens and how to fix it permanently.
Mirror-Image Selfies
Front cameras capture a mirrored image by default. Flip horizontally to correct text in the background, badge numbers, or simply to show the non-mirrored perspective.
Scanned Documents
Flatbed scanners frequently produce upside-down or sideways results depending on how the document was placed. Rotate to correct orientation before sharing or archiving.
Design & Layout Adjustments
Flip images to improve compositional balance in layouts, or to create mirrored pairs for symmetrical design elements without re-shooting or re-creating assets.
Why Flip and Rotate in the Browser
Orientation fixes are among the most frequent minor corrections needed before sharing or publishing images — and they're also among the simplest to handle without any software. This tool applies the change in a single click, processes everything locally, and outputs a corrected image with the orientation data baked into the pixel data rather than stored as an EXIF flag that some apps ignore. For a related task, our EXIF Viewer lets you inspect and remove orientation metadata, and our Image Cropper is the natural next step if framing also needs adjustment after rotation.
Frequently Asked Questions
Rotating turns the entire image by a set angle around its center — like spinning a physical photograph. The image content stays the same but its orientation changes.
Flipping creates a mirror image — horizontal flip creates a left-right mirror, vertical flip creates a top-bottom mirror. Think of it like holding a photo up to a mirror.
Flipping creates a mirror image — horizontal flip creates a left-right mirror, vertical flip creates a top-bottom mirror. Think of it like holding a photo up to a mirror.
This happens when EXIF orientation data is stripped from a JPG. Cameras embed a rotation tag in EXIF metadata telling apps how to display the photo correctly — if that tag is removed (by stripping EXIF, converting formats, or some editing tools), the raw image data appears sideways. Use Rotate 90° Right or Rotate 90° Left to fix it, then download — the rotation will be baked into the pixels.
At angles other than 90°/180°/270°, the rotated image creates triangular empty areas in the corners. By default we fill these with white — you can change the fill color using the color picker. If you uncheck the fill option on a PNG file, those corners will be transparent instead. For JPG output, a fill color is always applied since JPG doesn’t support transparency.
Yes — transforms are cumulative. You can rotate 90° right, then flip horizontally, then apply a custom 15° rotation all in sequence. The applied transforms are shown as chips above the preview. Click Reset to start over from the original image at any time.
Rotations at exactly 90°, 180°, or 270° are lossless for PNG — no pixel interpolation is needed. For JPG at these angles there is a very slight quality step from re-encoding, which we minimize by using 95% quality. Custom angle rotations require interpolation (pixel blending) which introduces minor softening at the edges. For critical work, rotate at exact 90° increments where possible.
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