Rotate
Rotate to any angle.
This runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
About Rotate
Rotates your image to any angle between -180 and 180 degrees, expanding the canvas so nothing is clipped, with a preview in your browser before you download.
Two situations bring people here. A photo came off the camera sideways and needs a clean quarter turn. Or a scan, a photographed document, a hand-held shot of a whiteboard sits at a slight angle, and a degree or two back makes it look deliberate instead of careless. The Degrees slider covers both without switching tools.
Drag Degrees to the angle you want — the range runs from -180 to 180 in single-degree steps — then click Apply preview. The rotation is drawn onto a canvas sized to the bounding box of the turned image, so no corner gets clipped. Positive values turn clockwise. Download then saves exactly what the preview shows.
Any angle that is not a multiple of 90 leaves transparent triangles in the four corners, because a rotated rectangle does not fill its own bounding box. The output is PNG, so those corners stay transparent rather than turning white — fine on the web, awkward in software that flattens transparency to black. Crop in afterwards for a clean rectangle. Off-axis rotation also resamples every pixel, so a straightened photo ends up marginally softer.
How to use Rotate
- 1Drop your image onto the panel or click to browse.
- 2Drag Degrees to the angle you want. Positive values turn clockwise.
- 3Click Apply preview to see the rotated image, then Download to save it.
What it won't do
- No dedicated 90-degree buttons; type or drag 90 or -90 on the Degrees slider.
- Any angle that is not a multiple of 90 leaves transparent corners and resamples every pixel.
- Output is PNG only.
Common questions
How do I rotate an image by 90 degrees?
Set the Degrees slider to 90 and click Apply preview. There are no separate quarter-turn buttons here — 90, -90 and 180 are values on the same slider, and they are the ones to prefer, because right-angle rotations relocate whole pixels without resampling and leave no transparent corners behind.
Why does my rotated image have transparent corners?
Because a rectangle rotated off-axis no longer fills a rectangle. The canvas is expanded to the bounding box of the turned image so that nothing is cut off, and the four leftover triangles have nothing in them. Crop the result to get back to a solid rectangle, or accept the transparency if the image is going somewhere that handles it.
Does rotating an image lose quality?
Multiples of 90 degrees do not, since those rotations only relocate existing pixels. Every other angle has to resample, calculating each output pixel from a blend of neighbouring input pixels, which softens fine detail. That is rarely visible on a photograph but is on crisp text, so straighten a scanned document in one go rather than nudging it repeatedly.
Can I fix a photo that is sideways because of its EXIF orientation?
Yes — rotate it here and the download will be the right way up everywhere. EXIF orientation is a flag asking viewers to turn the image, and software disagrees about whether to honour it. This tool works on decoded pixels and writes no EXIF, so the corrected orientation is baked into the pixels themselves.
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Why this one doesn't upload your file
There is no server to upload to. This page is a static file, and the work happens in your browser using the same graphics and WebAssembly code that renders every other site you visit. Your file is read from disk into memory, processed, and handed back as a download. Once the page has loaded you can disconnect from the network entirely and it keeps working. The longer explanation