Rotate Image

Rotate an image 90°, 180°, 270°, or by any custom angle in 0.1° increments. Lossless rotation for the 90° multiples (no quality loss); near-lossless interpolation for arbitrary angles. Free, no signup, no watermark.

Lossless vs lossy rotation

Rotating a JPG by 90, 180, or 270 degrees can be done losslessly because the pixel grid stays aligned — pixels just move to new positions without interpolation. This is what jpegtran does, and it's what we use behind the scenes. Result: bit-exact pixel data, same file size.

Rotating by an arbitrary angle (say, 5° to straighten a horizon) requires interpolation — pixels don't land exactly on the grid, so they're blended from neighbours. Quality loss is minimal but real. PNG and WebP rotations are always lossless thanks to their compression schemes.

When to rotate vs flip

• Rotate: turns the image around its centre. Use for orientation fixes (sideways photos) or straightening horizons.
• Flip: mirrors the image. Use Flip Image for mirroring.

Auto-straighten

Premium accounts get auto-straighten: the model finds the horizon line (or building verticals) and rotates the image so they're truly horizontal/vertical. One-click fix for tilted phone shots.

EXIF orientation

Many cameras embed an orientation tag instead of physically rotating pixels — that way the file is small and the display software handles the rotation. We respect this on input and write a correct orientation tag on output. If you need pixels rotated for compatibility with software that ignores EXIF orientation, toggle 'bake rotation into pixels' in the options.