Drop files here, or click to browse
Drop one or many images, or a whole folder. You can also paste with Ctrl+V.
How to use
Add the photos
Drop in one file or a stack of them, in any common format including HEIC and TIFF, up to 100 MB each. A single photo shows a live preview that updates as you change the angle.
Set the angle and corners
Click -90, +90 or 180, or type an angle and use the 1 degree nudge buttons. Pick a corner fill, and turn on Crop to fit when straightening by a few degrees.
Rotate and download
Press Rotate. One image saves with a -rotated suffix, and a batch arrives as rotated-images.zip with the same angle and settings applied to every file.
Why Rotate Image
- Any angle from -180 to 180 degrees, in 0.1 degree steps.
- Crop to fit for straightening without empty corners.
- Rotate only portrait or only landscape photos in a batch.
- Detects and fixes the EXIF orientation flag.
Why photos appear sideways: the orientation tag
A phone camera sensor has one natural direction. When you hold the phone upright, many phones do not turn the pixels. They save the picture in the sensor's direction and add an EXIF orientation tag that says rotate 90 degrees when showing this.
Most modern apps and browsers read that tag, so the photo looks right on your phone. Some upload forms, older software and image tools ignore it and show the raw pixels, which are sideways. The photo is not broken, it just relies on a tag.
The fix is to write the rotation into the pixels. This tool draws the photo as your browser shows it, turns it by the angle you pick, and saves a new file without the orientation tag. If the preview already looks upright but another app shows it sideways, rotate by 0 degrees or the angle you need and use the saved copy.
Worked example: straightening a horizon by 3 degrees
Take a 4000 x 3000 px landscape photo where the sea tilts slightly. Set the angle to 3 and watch the preview until the horizon is level.
With Crop to fit off, the canvas grows to 4152 x 3205 px so the whole rotated photo fits, and the four corner wedges are filled with your chosen colour. That suits graphics on a plain background.
With Crop to fit on, the photo is trimmed to the largest 4:3 rectangle that fits inside the rotated picture, which is 3744 x 2808 px. You lose about 6 percent of the width and height at the edges, and there are no corners to hide. For photos this is usually the look you want.
- Small tilts of 1 to 5 degrees lose little with Crop to fit.
- Larger angles crop much more, so check the preview first.
- Right-angle turns ignore Crop to fit, since nothing is empty.