Rotate, Flip & Skew Images

Turning an image fixes a photo that came out of the camera sideways, mirrors a scan that was fed in the wrong way round, squares up a screenshot, and stretches artwork to fit a layout that will not budge.

Benefits of Image Transformation

• Orientation correction: Turn a sideways photo the right way up, automatically or by hand.
• No quality cost: Quarter turns and mirrors on a JPG are copied, not re-encoded.
• Precise straightening: 0.1° steps, enough to level a horizon exactly.
• Design flexibility: Stretch and slant images to fit layouts and mockups.
• A whole folder at once: Apply the same turn to a batch, or only to the landscape ones.

1. 1Add your image: Drop in a JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF or BMP. Pro takes a batch; it all runs on your device, not our servers.
2. 2Turn it: Use the quick quarter turns for a sideways photo, or the fine angle slider to straighten a horizon.
3. 3Shape it: Mirror it, stretch one axis, or slant it. Each slider stops where the settings beside it leave room.
4. 4Choose the frame: Fit grows the frame to hold the turned picture; crop keeps the original shape. Pick what sits behind it: transparent, a colour, or stretched edges.
5. 5Apply and download: Export as PNG, JPG or WebP. A quarter turn on a JPG saved as JPG is copied rather than re-encoded, so it loses nothing.

A JPG stores blocks of frequency data rather than pixels, and a quarter turn or a mirror is a rearrangement of those blocks. When the source is a JPG, the output is a JPG, and the transform is a quarter turn or a mirror, the file is rearranged and written straight back out — no decoding, no re-encoding, and no second generation of compression. Every result says which route it took, and when the direct one could not be used it says why.

A turned rectangle no longer fits its own frame. Fit grows the frame so every pixel survives and leaves space at the corners; crop keeps the original shape and loses a little from the edges; keep-the-size holds the frame still. Whatever the corners expose can be left transparent, filled with a colour, or covered by stretching the outermost pixels outward. Transparent is the default, because a white fill baked into a PNG cannot be undone later.

A phone records the angle it was held at rather than turning the picture, which is why a photo can look right on the phone and sideways on a computer. That rotation is applied automatically here, and the switch to turn it off is there for the times you want the picture exactly as it was stored. Where a photo carries one, the queue says so.

Rotation, mirroring, stretching and slanting cover the geometry most photos need. Moving the four corners independently is a different job, and it has its own tool.

Rotation

Turn by any angle in 0.1° steps between −180° and 180°, or use the quick quarter turns. A quarter turn is a rearrangement of the picture rather than a recalculation of it, so nothing is lost.

Flipping

Mirror horizontally or vertically for symmetry, composition fixes and scanned pages that came in reversed. Mirroring, like a quarter turn, moves pixels without changing them.

Skewing

Slant one or both axes for italic-style artwork and mild geometric corrections. Slanting both ways at once squashes the picture, so each slider stops where the other one leaves room.

Scaling

Stretch width and height independently, or lock them together. The maximum tracks what your plan can export, so a slider never offers a size that cannot be saved.

Every output pixel is worked out from where it came from in the original, so nothing is scattered and no gaps are left behind. The work is hardware accelerated on your device and nothing is uploaded.

Processing pipeline

• Loading: Your image is opened on your device, honouring the rotation the camera recorded.
• Geometry: The turn, the mirror, the stretch and the slant are combined into one step rather than applied one after another.
• Resampling: Lanczos, Sharp, Fast or Hard-edge decides how neighbouring pixels are blended.
• Framing: The frame is sized to hold the result, and the space around it is filled the way you chose.
• Export: Saved as PNG, JPG or WebP — or, for a quarter turn on a JPG, copied without re-encoding.

Hardware accelerated, and everything stays on your device.

A few things worth knowing before you turn a photo.

Key points

• Quarter turns and mirrors move pixels without changing their values.
• Any other angle has to recalculate every pixel, so the filter you choose matters.
• Rotation is one of the most common edits people make to a photo.
• Mirroring is useful for composition, symmetry and reversed scans.
• Detail survives best when a photo is turned once rather than repeatedly.

Use these guidelines for better transformations.

Applying transforms

• Reach for the quick quarter turns first — they are free of any quality cost.
• Leave EXIF auto-rotate on unless you specifically want the stored raster.
• Watch the output size in the panel before you apply.
• Match the frame choice to the job: fit for artwork, crop for photos.
• Apply everything in one pass rather than exporting and reopening.

Quality considerations

• Sharpest suits photographs; Hard edges suits pixel art and screenshots.
• Start from the highest resolution you have.
• Crop mode removes the empty corners a large angle would otherwise leave.
• Pick a fill colour that matches wherever the image is going to sit.
• A transparent background needs PNG or WebP — JPG has no transparency.

Turning and mirroring come up across photography, design, online shops and social posts.

Photography

Straighten a horizon, square up a sideways portrait, and prepare images for print and web.

Graphic design

Combine transforms for layouts, mockups, and creative compositions.

E-commerce

Align product photos, fix orientation, and keep listings consistent.

Social media

Fix a vertical frame, turn a photo the right way up, and mirror a shot for a feed.

• Fix perspective
• Straighten a photo
• Image cropper
• Image resizer
• Flip image