Quick Rotations (90°, 180°, 270°)
Open kinja-img.com/rotate-image, drop your image, and click the rotation buttons:
- Rotate Right — 90° clockwise. Fix photos taken in the wrong orientation.
- Rotate Left — 90° counter-clockwise.
- Rotate 180° — flip upside down. Useful for scanned documents that came out inverted.
Each click is instant — the Canvas API processes the rotation in milliseconds. Click the download button when you're happy with the result.
Custom Angle Rotation
Need to straighten a tilted horizon or rotate by a specific degree? Use the angle slider that goes from -180° to +180° in 1° increments.
The canvas automatically calculates the new bounding box so no content is cut off — the output image grows to fit the rotated content. A 1000×500 photo rotated 45° will produce a larger canvas with the full rotated image visible.
This is especially useful for:
- Straightening horizons in landscape photos
- Fixing slightly tilted document scans
- Creating diagonal design elements
Flip Horizontal & Vertical
Two flip options that mirror the image along an axis:
- Flip Horizontal — mirrors left to right. Creates a mirror image. Useful for selfies, reversing text in screenshots, or creating symmetrical designs.
- Flip Vertical — mirrors top to bottom. Flips the image upside down along the horizontal axis.
Flipping preserves full image quality — no recompression, no quality loss.
Combining Transforms
All transforms can be stacked. Rotate 90° then flip horizontally to create a transposed image. Rotate by a custom angle then flip vertically for mirror effects. The live preview updates instantly as you apply each transform.
Hit Reset at any time to clear all transforms and return to the original image. The original file is never modified — all transforms happen on a Canvas copy.
Privacy: Browser-Only Processing
The rotate tool runs 100% in your browser using the HTML5 Canvas API. Your image is never uploaded to any server. This means:
- It works offline after the page loads
- No file size limits from network transfer
- Processing speed depends only on your device
- Sensitive images stay completely private
Supports JPG, PNG, GIF, and WebP. The output format matches your input — a PNG stays PNG, a JPEG stays JPEG.