Rotate image online

Turn a sideways photo upright, mirror a selfie or straighten a tilted horizon. The buttons for all of it are waiting in the task bar when your picture opens.

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How it works

Drop your image — rotate and flip buttons appear in the task bar.
Rotate 90° left or right, flip it, or use Free rotate for any angle.
Press Enter to apply a free rotation, then Export the result.

Rotating by 90° and flipping

Rotate 90° left and rotate 90° right turn the whole image, so a portrait photo becomes landscape and its width and height swap. Click twice for 180°, which fixes pictures taken upside down. Flip horizontal mirrors the image left to right — useful when a selfie comes out mirrored or text in a photo reads backwards. Flip vertical turns it upside down as a reflection. Right-angle rotations and flips only move pixels without recalculating them, and the same commands are also in the Image menu.

Straightening a crooked horizon

Click Free rotate to switch to the Transform tool. Drag outside the box to rotate by any angle, and watch a line that should be straight — the horizon, a doorframe, the edge of a building — until it is level. Hold Shift to snap to 15° steps when you need exactly 15°, 30° or 45°. Press Enter to apply. Rotating by an odd angle leaves empty corners, so finish with the Crop tool and place the frame inside them.

Saving the rotated picture

Export in the format you started with: JPEG for photos, PNG for screenshots, scans and graphics. If you straightened a photo and some corners are still empty, JPEG fills them with white, so crop them away first, or export as PNG to keep them transparent. The Export dialog shows the expected file size before you click Download, and the quality slider lets you balance size against sharpness for JPEG and WebP files.

Frequently asked questions

Why does my photo appear sideways?

Phones and cameras often store a photo in one orientation and add a note saying how it should be turned. Some apps ignore that note, so the picture shows up sideways. If it looks wrong in Paint Studio too, rotate it 90° in the right direction and export — the saved file is upright everywhere.

Can I rotate an image by a custom angle, like 5°?

Yes. Use Free rotate and drag outside the transform box until the picture looks right; any angle works. Hold Shift to snap to 15° steps. After pressing Enter, crop away the empty corners that appear around a tilted image.

What is the difference between rotating and flipping?

Rotating turns the picture around its center, like turning a printed photo on a table. Flipping mirrors it, as if you held it up to a mirror: left and right (or top and bottom) swap, and any text in it reads backwards.

Does rotating reduce image quality?

Rotating by 90° or 180° and flipping move pixels without changing them. Any other angle has to recalculate pixels, which softens very fine detail slightly, so rotate once to the final angle instead of in several small steps.