Flip & Rotate

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.

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.