Image Rotator

Turn a picture by a quarter turn, a half turn or any angle you type. Right-angle turns are lossless; custom angles can enlarge the canvas so the corners are not clipped, and the empty corners can be transparent or filled with a colour. A live before-and-after preview updates as you change the settings.

Image Editing Runs in your browser

Rotate Your Image

JavaScript is required. This tool runs in your browser, so please enable JavaScript to use it. The instructions below are still available.

Image

Drag and drop your image (JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF or BMP) here, or click to browseAccepted: JPG, JPEG, PNG, WEBP, GIF, BMP. Up to 40 MB.

Rotation

Expand the canvas so nothing is cut off

Transparent background for the empty corners

Output format

Quality Used for JPEG and WebP. Higher means a larger file.

Background colourFills transparent areas when the result is saved as JPEG or BMP.

How to Use the Image Rotator

Add your picture; the preview appears straight away.
Pick 90°, 180°, 270° or Custom angle and type the angle in degrees.
Keep Expand the canvas ticked to avoid cutting off corners, and choose a transparent or coloured background.
Press Rotate and download the result.

About This Tool

People fixing sideways phone photos or scanned pages, photographers levelling a horizon by a few degrees, and designers who need a tilted graphic.

Input: JPG / PNG / WebP / GIF / BMP · Output: PNG / JPG / WebP.

Features and Limitations

Features

Lossless quarter turns and free angles to a tenth of a degree.
Optional canvas expansion so rotated corners are kept.
Transparent or coloured corners.
Instant before-and-after preview, with the full-size image processed only on download.

Limitations

Custom angles resample the pixels, which slightly softens fine detail; quarter turns do not.
Without canvas expansion the corners of a tilted picture are cropped and empty wedges appear.
Images above 100 megapixels are refused; results larger than 16,384 px per side are refused too.
Animated GIFs are rotated as one still frame.
Processing happens on your device, so very large files depend on your browser's available memory.

Example

A 1000 × 600 px picture rotated by 90° becomes 600 × 1000 px. Rotated by 10° with canvas expansion it becomes 1,089 × 765 px.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which direction does a positive angle turn?

Clockwise. Use a negative angle, or the counter-clockwise preset, to turn the other way.

Why did my rotated picture get bigger?

A tilted rectangle needs a larger bounding box. Untick Expand the canvas if you want to keep the original size and accept cropped corners.

Can I make the empty corners transparent?

Yes, tick the transparent option and save as PNG or WebP. JPEG has no transparency, so those corners take the background colour.

Will rotating a photo lose quality?

Quarter turns are exact. Other angles resample pixels, and saving as JPEG re-compresses, so use PNG when you need a clean copy.

Does it handle phone photos that look sideways?

Browsers display photos using their EXIF orientation, and this tool starts from that displayed orientation. Use the quarter-turn buttons if it still looks wrong.