Autorotate a photo
Fix a photo's orientation from its EXIF tag the way viewers show it, all eight rotations and mirrors included, and take the stale tag out of the output so nothing rotates it again.
Working…
Questions people ask
- Why does my photo look fine here but sideways elsewhere?
- Because the rotation lives in the EXIF tag, not in the pixels: some software reads the tag (and shows the photo upright) and some does not (and shows the sensor's raw frame). This tool bakes the rotation into the pixels, so every viewer sees the same upright photo and there is no tag left to argue about.
- What are the mirrored orientations?
- EXIF orientations 2, 4, 5 and 7 involve a mirror along with the turn. They are handled exactly like the plain rotations: the pixels come out the way the camera intended, and the tag is removed either way.
- What if my photo is already upright?
- It comes back untouched, byte for byte, with the summary saying so. An upright image needs no new compression, so the tool re-encodes nothing.
- Does the re-encode lose quality?
- JPEG and WebP files are re-encoded (JPEG at quality 95, WebP at 90), which is a small, one-time loss; PNG is lossless end to end. The colour profile travels with the file, and no rescaling happens: the pixels move, the dimensions only swap when the orientation demands it.
- What does "strip all metadata" change?
- With keep, the camera's other properties survive the fix (only the orientation tag goes). With strip, the output is rebuilt from the pixels alone: no EXIF at all, which is also the privacy-safe option when you do not want the camera model or the timestamp travelling with the photo.
- What happens to my files?
- The upload is removed as soon as processing finishes; the straightened photo stays downloadable for about 10 minutes, then it is deleted automatically.