Crop and Rotate Any Image

Phone cameras store every photo in the sensor’s own direction and add a small Orientation tag that says how to turn it for display. A photo that shows up sideways usually has a missing or wrong tag, not wrong pixels. That is why rotating a JPG doesn’t need to touch the picture at all.

When the only change is a quarter turn or a mirror flip, and you keep the format and the size, Image Studio rewrites just that tag. The compressed image data inside the file is copied byte for byte, so even after ten turns there is no extra blur, banding or blockiness. If the file had no tag, one is added.

Location, camera details and other personal metadata are still removed on the way out, as on every page here, while the orientation itself is kept. The metadata note on the result card says so whenever a file was saved without re-encoding.

• Rotate 90° left or right with the buttons, or with the [ and ] keys.
• Flip horizontally to mirror a selfie, or vertically for a reflection.
• Combine turns and flips freely; they collapse into a single orientation.
• Crop or straighten as well, or change the format or size, and the picture is encoded once, at high quality, instead.

Choosing the ratio first and then dragging the box is faster than eyeballing a shape. A few common destinations and what they expect:

The Social size menu does two things at once: it locks the crop box to that post’s shape and sets the saved file to exactly those pixels, for example 1080×1350 for a portrait post or 1200×630 for a link preview card. You only position the box.

Because the shape is fixed, nothing is squashed or stretched. If your photo is smaller than the chosen size, it is enlarged to fit, so for the sharpest result start from the original camera file rather than a copy saved from a chat app.

Horizons, door frames and scanned pages are rarely perfectly level. Drag the Straighten slider, or type an angle between −45° and +45°, while a grid appears over the picture to line things up against. Tenth-of-a-degree steps are fine enough for a scan.

Turning a rectangle by a few degrees leaves wedge-shaped gaps at the corners. Instead of filling them with white or black, the crop box is tightened automatically to the largest area that still has picture everywhere.

Every photo needs its own framing, so cropping happens one picture at a time. When a whole folder needs the same pixel size, the Resize tool can fill an exact width and height for every file, trimming the edges evenly instead of stretching.

Cropping is often about privacy in the first place: cutting a stranger, a house number or a screen out of the frame. Here the cut happens in your browser, and the part you removed is not hidden in the saved file; it is simply gone.

The original stays on your device untouched. Image Studio reads it, works on a copy in memory and writes a new file only when you save.

You don't have to take our word for it. Three checks:

1. Open your browser's developer tools, choose the Network tab, then open and save an image. No request carries your file.
2. Open an image here once, then turn on airplane mode and run the same job again. It still works, because nothing needs a server.
3. Read the page's response headers: its Content-Security-Policy lets it connect only to this site itself, so there is no outside host a file could go to.

How it works, and how to check it yourself