Rotate & flip image

Rotation vs EXIF orientation

Phone cameras store rotation as an EXIF tag rather than in the pixel data. That works fine when the viewer respects the tag — but many web CMS, older desktop viewers and printing services ignore it, showing your portrait selfie as a sideways landscape image. This tool bakes the rotation into the pixels so the output is oriented correctly everywhere.

Common uses

• Fixing sideways phone photos before uploading to a CMS that doesn't honour EXIF orientation.
• Flipping selfies — front-camera photos are mirrored by default; horizontal flip gives you the "true" orientation.
• Rotating scanned documents that came in upside-down or on their side.
• Preparing print files — some print shops want portrait/landscape orientation set explicitly rather than via EXIF.

Related tools

• Crop image — combine with rotate to salvage a badly-composed shot.
• Resize image — resize after rotating for exact dimensions.
• Remove image metadata — strip EXIF including the orientation tag after rotating (so the tag can't double-rotate).
• Compress image — reduce file size after rotation.