Rotate and Flip Images Online

Batch rotate JPG, PNG, and WebP images 90, 180, or 270 degrees, with optional flip controls.

📖 Guide: How to rotate and flip images online →

What can you do with this rotate and flip tool?

Rotate images 90, 180, or 270 degrees in a batch.

Flip images horizontally or vertically for mirrored layouts.

Fix sideways photos and screenshots without uploading files.

Download single results or all rotated files as a ZIP.

How browser image rotation works

Add JPG, PNG, or WebP images.

Choose the rotation angle and optional flip direction.

Render each transformed image locally on canvas.

Download individual files or a ZIP package.

Why use ShotEdit to rotate images?

Fast batch correction for sideways photos and screenshots.

No file upload keeps quick visual fixes private.

One setting can be applied to an entire image set.

Supported image formats

JPG

Photo input and output

PNG

Lossless image input and output

WebP

Modern web image input and output

ZIP

Optional batch download package

Rotating and flipping images the right way

Photos taken with a phone held sideways, scanned documents fed in upside down, and screenshots that need mirroring for a design mock-up all need the same fix. The tool above rotates and flips JPG, PNG, and WebP images in your browser, one file or a whole batch.

Rotation options

Choose 90°, 180°, or 270° clockwise. A 90° or 270° turn swaps the width and height, so a 4000 x 3000 landscape photo becomes a 3000 x 4000 portrait. A 180° turn keeps the dimensions and simply turns the image upside down, which fixes most upside-down scans.

Because the tool only rotates in right-angle steps, no pixels are cropped or interpolated. PNG images come out pixel-for-pixel identical apart from their orientation.

Flipping versus rotating

Flip horizontal mirrors the image left to right, like a reflection. It is what you want for front-camera selfies that show text backwards, or when a layout needs a subject facing the other way. Flip vertical mirrors top to bottom.

A flip is not the same as a rotation: a 180° rotation keeps text readable but upside down, while a vertical flip reverses it. You can combine a rotation with either flip in a single pass, and the settings apply to every image in the batch.

Why a photo can look rotated in one app but not another

Cameras often save photos in one orientation and add an EXIF tag telling viewers how to display them. Some apps respect the tag and others ignore it, which is why the same photo can appear sideways after upload. ShotEdit applies the orientation to the pixels themselves and saves a clean file without the tag, so the result looks the same everywhere.

Rotated files keep their original format and get a -rotated suffix, and the whole batch can be downloaded as a ZIP file.

Sorting a batch that needs different fixes

The rotation setting starts at 90°, and every image you add is turned straight away with the current settings, so a set of sideways photos is often done the moment it loads. Because one setting covers the whole batch, sort mixed sets into groups: a quarter turn clockwise at 90°, a quarter turn counter-clockwise at 270°, and upside-down images at 180°. Remove images that belong to another group with their X button, download the rest, then press Clear and add the next group. The line under the preview shows the dimensions before and after, such as 4000 x 3000px -> 3000 x 4000px, which confirms a quarter turn at a glance. The ZIP button appears once at least two images are finished.

Two combinations are worth knowing. Ticking both flips gives the same result as a 180° rotation, and 180° with both flips ticked returns the original orientation. Also rotate from the original file: turning an already rotated JPG encodes it a second time and stacks the suffix, as in photo-rotated-rotated.jpg. If a phone photo looks upright in your browser but sideways in another app, it depends on its orientation tag, and rotating it here would turn it the wrong way. Run it through the image resizer at 100% instead; the picture is redrawn upright and saved without the tag.

Common questions

Does rotating a JPG lower its quality?

The image is re-encoded once at high quality, so any change is very hard to see. PNG files are lossless and come out identical apart from the orientation.