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IMG-06 · Rotate & Flip
Rotate & flip an image
Rotate in quick 90° steps or dial in any angle, and mirror horizontally or vertically. Nothing leaves your device.
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Why photos sometimes appear rotated wrong automatically
Many phone cameras don't physically rotate the pixel data when you shoot in portrait orientation — instead they save the image with an EXIF orientation flag telling viewers how to display it correctly. Software that ignores that flag shows the photo sideways even though the file itself is "correct." Manually rotating and re-exporting bakes the correct orientation directly into the pixel data, which fixes this permanently regardless of whether the viewing software respects EXIF orientation.
Rotate vs. flip — they're not the same operation
Rotation turns the image around a center point (90°, 180°, or any custom angle); flipping mirrors it across a horizontal or vertical axis, which is a completely different transformation, not a type of rotation. Fixing an upside-down photo needs a 180° rotation; correcting a mirrored selfie needs a horizontal flip — using the wrong one won't produce the intended result.
Why does my photo look sideways in some apps but correct in others?
The photo's EXIF orientation flag tells compliant software how to display it correctly without altering the actual stored pixel data; software that ignores that flag shows the raw, unrotated pixel data instead. Manually rotating and re-exporting fixes this permanently by baking the correct orientation into the pixels themselves.
What's the difference between rotating and flipping an image?
Rotation turns the image around its center by a chosen angle; flipping mirrors it across an axis (horizontal or vertical), a fundamentally different transformation. An upside-down image needs 180° rotation; a mirrored/reversed image needs a flip — they aren't interchangeable fixes.
Does rotating by 90° lose any image quality?
No — a 90°, 180°, or 270° rotation just repositions existing pixels with no interpolation needed. Rotating by an arbitrary angle (like 15°) does require some interpolation and a very slight quality tradeoff, since pixels no longer align to a clean grid.
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