Rotate Image

Use Rotate Image to change the orientation of a JPG, JPEG, PNG, or WebP image.

The tool provides fixed rotation options of 0°, 90°, 180°, and 270°. Select the orientation you want, review the preview, and process the image to create the rotated output.

The current Rotate Image workflow processes one image at a time and uses browser-native image loading and canvas processing.

Rotate Image provides four fixed orientation options: 0°, 90°, 180°, and 270°.

0° keeps the image in its current decoded orientation.

90° applies a quarter-turn rotation.

180° turns the image to the opposite orientation.

270° applies a three-quarter-turn rotation.

The current workspace uses direct fixed-angle selection. It does not provide separate Rotate Left or Rotate Right buttons, arbitrary-angle input, a rotation slider, or skew controls.

The image is drawn at its natural pixel dimensions without intentional scaling during the rotation operation.

For 90° and 270° rotations, the output canvas swaps the image width and height because the image orientation changes from one axis arrangement to the other.

For 0° and 180° rotations, the output canvas keeps the original width and height dimensions.

For example, a 1200 × 800 pixel image becomes an 800 × 1200 pixel output after a 90° or 270° rotation, while a 180° rotation remains 1200 × 800 pixels.

The selected image is decoded by the browser and drawn onto an HTML5 canvas using the selected rotation.

The tool does not intentionally resize the image while rotating it, but the generated output is encoded again from the canvas.

For lossy formats such as JPEG and WebP, re-encoding can affect the resulting file size or image data. The current Rotate Image workflow does not provide a custom encoding-quality control and uses the browser's default behavior when creating the output.

Review the generated image when exact visual reproduction or file size is important.

Rotate Image changes the orientation of the complete image without intentionally removing areas from it.

Crop Image extracts a selected rectangular region and removes the areas outside that crop.

Use Rotate Image when the full image should remain but its orientation needs to change.

Use Crop Image when you want to keep only part of the image.

Rotate Image changes the orientation of the image using fixed 0°, 90°, 180°, or 270° rotations.

Resize Image changes the width and height of the complete image by scaling it to different pixel dimensions or by percentage.

Use Rotate Image when orientation is the main requirement.

Use Resize Image when image dimensions are the main requirement.

The Rotate Image workflow creates the output using the supported MIME format of the selected source image. The current tool does not provide a separate output-format selector.

PNG and WebP formats can support transparency, and the browser canvas can retain transparent areas when the generated output format supports them.

Because the source image is rendered and re-encoded through canvas processing, source metadata such as EXIF, GPS information, and ICC color-profile information should not be assumed to remain in the generated file.

Browser image decoding can also interpret source orientation information before the image is drawn onto the output canvas.

If metadata, transparency, color behavior, file size, or exact visual reproduction is important, review the downloaded image before using it.

Rotation performance can depend on the source image file size, pixel dimensions, format, available browser memory, browser implementation, and device resources. Large or high-resolution images can require additional memory while the browser decodes the source image, creates the output canvas, draws the rotated pixels, and encodes the generated image. For 90° and 270° rotations, the output width and height are exchanged, but the image is not intentionally scaled to a different pixel count as part of the rotation operation. Performance can vary between browsers and devices when processing very large images.