Rotate & straighten images in the browser
Phone photos and scanner exports often land in your folder the wrong way up. A quick 90° rotation fixes orientation; a few degrees of fine rotation helps when the horizon is slightly off. This page does all of that locally—no upload—so screenshots and client work stay on your machine.
When this beats opening Photoshop
You do not need a full editor for a single crooked JPEG. Batch tools are great for libraries, but they are overkill when you just need to export a corrected file for email, Slack, or a CMS field. The workflow here is deliberately short: load, adjust, apply, download.
How to use the tool
- Drop an image or pick one from your device.
- Use 90° left/right for orientation, or the slider for small angles (±45°).
- Flip horizontally or vertically if you need a mirror.
- Click Apply to bake transforms into a new file, then download.
Privacy
Processing uses canvas APIs in your browser. Your image is not sent to our servers for the rotation step—same idea as our image optimization tool.
Tips
- Output keeps your original MIME type when the browser can encode it (e.g. JPEG quality ~0.92 for JPEG sources).
- Very large images may take a moment—be patient on older hardware.
- For non-destructive edits across many files, a desktop app still wins; this page is for fast one-offs.
Quick questions
- Does rotating reduce quality?
- 90° turns for JPEGs are usually fine; re-encoding can introduce slight loss. For archival work, keep originals elsewhere.
- Can I rotate PNG with transparency?
- Yes—transparent areas are preserved when the browser supports encoding for that format.