Is my image uploaded anywhere?

No. Rotation and flipping use canvas transforms in your browser. The image never leaves your device.

Is rotating lossless?

90-degree rotations and flips only rearrange existing pixels, so there is no quality loss. The result is saved as a lossless PNG.

Can I rotate by arbitrary angles?

This tool rotates in clean 90° steps (90, 180, 270), which keeps the output sharp and the dimensions exact. Free-angle rotation would require resampling and add soft edges.

Why do the width and height swap when I rotate 90°?

A quarter turn maps the original width onto the new height and vice versa, so a 1200×800 photo becomes 800×1200 after a 90° or 270° rotation. The canvas is resized to match before drawing.

Can I rotate and flip in the same step?

Yes. You can combine a rotation with a horizontal or vertical flip; the transforms are composed on the canvas, so the output reflects both at once.

Does this fix EXIF orientation issues?

It lets you manually correct a sideways photo, but it does not read EXIF tags. If a photo looks rotated, just apply the matching rotate-left or rotate-right step and download the corrected PNG.

What is the Rotate & Flip Image?

Free online tool to rotate an image left or right in 90-degree steps and flip it horizontally or vertically. Lossless and fully private — runs in your browser with no upload. It runs free in your browser on Gera Tools, with nothing uploaded.

Rotate & Flip Image — Gera Tools

Name: Rotate & Flip Image
Creator: Gera Tools
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Rotate and flip images privately

Fix a sideways photo or mirror an image with one click. Rotate left or right in 90° steps and flip horizontally or vertically — ideal for correcting phone photos that came out rotated, straightening scans, or preparing assets.

How it works

The image is drawn onto a <canvas> using composable transforms. A rotation calls ctx.rotate by 90°, 180° or 270° and translates the origin so the image stays centred; for 90° and 270° the canvas is resized to swap width and height. Flips negate the X or Y scale (scale(-1, 1) or scale(1, -1)). Because every operation only relocates existing pixels rather than resampling them, the result is lossless and saved as a clean PNG.

What each operation does to the dimensions

Action	1200×800 input becomes	Effect
Rotate right 90°	800×1200	Clockwise quarter-turn; width and height swap
Rotate left 90°	800×1200	Counter-clockwise quarter-turn; width and height swap
Rotate 180°	1200×800	Upside down; dimensions unchanged
Flip horizontal	1200×800	Mirror left-to-right; dimensions unchanged
Flip vertical	1200×800	Mirror top-to-bottom; dimensions unchanged
Rotate right + flip horizontal	800×1200	Equivalent to a transpose (rotated then mirrored)

Common scenarios and the right button to reach for

Phone photos appear sideways in some apps. Most modern phones embed an EXIF orientation tag telling viewers how to display the image. Some apps (including many older desktop tools and certain web platforms) ignore that tag and display the raw pixel data — which may be rotated. Use Rotate Right or Rotate Left to match the orientation visually, then download the corrected PNG. The downloaded file has no orientation tag to ignore: the pixels themselves are in the correct orientation.

Scanned documents come out upside down. Flatbed scanners sometimes pick up a page at 180°. Click Rotate 180° once and download.

You need a mirror image for a logo or watermark. Flip Horizontal reverses left and right — useful when placing a mirrored version of text or a brand mark on the right side of a symmetrical design.

Preparing a thumbnail for a video. If you shot footage in portrait mode but need a landscape thumbnail crop, Rotate Right or Left reorients the frame so you can then crop to 16:9.

Correcting a scan of a transparency or negative. Flip Vertical inverts the up-down axis — occasionally needed for drum-scanned negatives where the emulsion side faces upward.

Why the output is always PNG

The canvas is saved as a lossless PNG regardless of the input format. This means:

A JPEG input will be saved as a higher-quality PNG (no additional JPEG compression artefacts are introduced).
The file size may increase compared to the original JPEG, because PNG is lossless.
If you need a JPEG output, convert the downloaded PNG using a dedicated format-conversion tool afterward.

Privacy

All transforms happen entirely inside your browser using the HTML5 Canvas API. No pixel data leaves your device at any point — the tool works the same way whether you are online or offline.